Cancelling Cable

[other one]

I stopped watching tv the first day I got a modem to hook up to my computer. We never had cable for we didn't want our kids exposed to some of the stuff on it. However, lately my wife wants me to cancel the DSL line because I spend so much time here.

I guess I'll have to drop back some from worthey boards for a while and do some work on the old home relationship stuff.

Sure would hate to loose my DSL, but good wives are really hard to find......

Sam

[ginakay]

Yeah Sam, you do that !

We live in the boonies so we have a satellite. I enjoy Fox news and HGTV, and a few others from time to time. This time of year we are outside a lot in the evening until fairly late. I pretty much am only on line while at work.

As for tv, this is my thought on it:

If someone is more or less addicted to watching then probably you will have to go cold turkey for awhile. During that time, get involved in something else you like to do. If you develope those interests then later when you have the cable available again you will still want to keep up the other activities so you will spend a more appropriate time watching only the programs that you really enjoy instead of sitting with numb minds through a lot of stuff that is just garbage.

[jabner]

Been without it for a long time now, don't miss a thing except the news occasionally. But I hear from family and friends what's going on in the world and I occasionally check the weather on the web. I have two little girls, if we want to watch anything, we have a good selection of Veggietales and bible stories on VHS and DVD. The absence of cable also gives us much more time together as a family, getting to know each other and playing and all that. I wouldn't change it for all the sitcoms in the world. Just my opinion though. Good luck and God bless.

[Guest LCPGUY]

Keep the Cable and just watch FOX News Channel for your news. It's the last of fair news.

Just me 2

[ann2]

I sure wish that we had never gotten cable .The tv is on day & night, there is never any quite time around here.My hubby is addictided to the noise i believe.I mostly watch Hgtv.& discovery channel but if it was gone i dont think i would miss it at all.

[Guest Marc]

Has anyone ever attempted to cancel TV alltogether?

I did.

You will discover that children start reading books, playing together, going out playing sport. And you? well you will probalby read more books, take up a hobby . . who knows! Play scrabble?

[Manofwork]

Or spend moore time here

[Guest asduke]

I just unhooked the antenna completely before writing this. Often times we justify things for our distractions. While talking about this subject with others at church, I got answers like I only watch the news or the discovery channel or the food channel. Do we not realize that the same ends can be reached through reading? TV is a distraction that takes up too much of our time.

God wants us to tithe our time. He wants us to give our time to Him each day. If we were to give 10% of our time each day to Him it would 2.4 hours, the approximate time of a modern day movie. We really need to ask ourselves where we are spending the precious little time we have?

[ginakay]

We didn't have a tv for the first 7 years of our marriage. Then my children seemed fascinated by them when we were at anyones house who had one. I thought it might be better to have one at the house and let them watch a few programs that I approved of. That worked out good for us. I am not a tv or movie person since I much prefer to read or be outside but there are some things that a tv is good for if it is controlled.

On a lighter note. I heard that the amount of time one spends watching the weather channel is in direct proportion to your age. (the older you are--the more you watch the weather channel) must be some truth in that as it is about the first thing we check if we turn the tv on!

[Guest LadyC]

the older i get, the more i watch the news! i think that directly relates to age too. i remember when i was younger, i always thought my parents were OLD becuause they couldn't go to bed without watching the evening news.

they didn't have cable back then... i must be ancient because i watch the news ALOT!