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Hi,

I just wanted share with people what I stand to save in money I am now NOT spending on paying for satellite tv.

This year, and every year from now on I will save about £600. That is enough money for me to pay for Christmas, or a holiday for my wife and young daughter!

This is amazing really, stopping and thinking about what you spend your money on, and the amount I am saving is large enough to make a real difference to my families life!

Thought I would share that happy piece of news because more people can benefit in this way by downloading the software!

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Thanks

Matt

I had already decided this about my future. I would not own cable. The amount of time my father spends watching reruns of NCIS is astounding and one of the reasons we’re in debt! He never catches the whole episode the first three times(he falls asleep!) he watches it, so we are forced to watch them over and over again. It’s come to the point where he’s putting off going to work in the morning to catch up on the episodes! Cable TV is a poison, considering 26% of the time we spend watching television is watching advertisements for things we don’t need, and cannot afford.

How about Hulu and Joost? I like Hulu much than Joost as in case of Hulu, I don’t need any software to download.

Anyway, first time visitor to you blog. I liked it. Keepup good work.

I’ve gone one better, I don’t own a TV.

Life is so much better without one. I read and get more stuff done now.

Plus, if there is something on the box that I really want to see, there is always some way to see it.

If you join Netflix through FatWallet.com, you’ll get $18 cashback. I joined Blockbuster through FatWallet.com and got like $10 back. If you shop regularly online, FW gives cash back on most of the sites you shop at.

If you are a regular ebay shopper, there is now a new cashback site for ebay purchases at KickItBack.com

I’ve been without cable for a year and half and don’t miss it at all. I love using Blockbuster.com and getting free movies at the store when I’m done with them. That is enough to keep me occupied on those evenings when I’m in the mood to watch something. Plus it’s commercial free!

Since you love books, you would love getting like-new books for next to nothing. I buy my books at the library booksales. You can find the nearest booksale on http://www.booksalefinder.com They sell thousands of great books at all of these sales all over the USA for like a buck each. They always organize these books in categories to make it easy to find the types of books you want to buy. There should be some in Austin and L.A. areas. You should check it out and save even more dollars from paying shipping online or paying retail price.

Enjoying your articles! Keep them coming!
Stacy

Stacy, those are some great tips! Thanks for sharing.

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Hi Brian,

First reading this post, I was expecting you to say things like you stopped watching TV and now you go for hikes or out for coffee with your wife.

It seems like you traded TV for better sources of media, but didn’t get rid of the media.

You’ll never believe this, but I don’t use the TV period. Why should I when the Web gives me everything I need? YouTube, Veoh, Google, PodcastAleley…. you name it. Plus the blogs. Yeah!

What I will never give up though is buying books.

I go to the U of Utah – their library is intense. I know in many cases if you have already graduated from a university you can still use the library. If you live close to one, it’s worth the effort. Once you burn through your local library movies (I have already) you can tap into these.

I’ve never had cable. Now days I don’t even have rabbit ears on the TV – just watch the occasional movie. Once every 4 years I get out the rabbit ears to watch a bit of the Olympics – the only TV I don’t want to give up. I think life is much more interesting than television. I also don’t pay for netflix/blockbuster – I check out movies from the library – they’ve got a great collection and it’s all “free” (except for those taxes we pay to keep it going).

I think if you give it enough time and you won’t miss it all if you fill in that time with meaningful activities.

I immediately identified with the cable TV cutting situation. Actually with me, I had come home after a speaking engagement trip to find my living room TV out of order. A lightening storm blew it to smithereens (the electrical curcuits inside the TV).

I said to myself, “Do I really need cable TV and spend $1200 a year?” My reply back to myself was, “No way.” So I promptly cut the Cable TV service, saving myself $60 a month.

It’s been 6 months and I have not renewed the service. What’s amazing is what I ended up doing in place of TV. I became more productive by reading more books, writing quality posts for my blog, etc. etc. etc.

Do I miss it? Yes, sort of. And like you, I’ll probably go back to it one day but not now. I think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have any cable company competition around here. It’s either Time Warner or dial-up. Oh boy.

I can completely relate to that. I miss it sometimes, but I’ll hold out as long as I can.

I agree, TV’s aren’t necessary.

I hardly ever watch it, besides watching movies and an episode or 2 of “Friends” on DVD.

The only other channels I really watch are the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet At least they’re informational.

Jeremy
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