Anyone else TV-free?

[pasofinofarm]

No TV here. We threw out all 4 of them about 4 years ago. Before that they were on from sunup to sun down just like they were in the houses where DH and I grew up.

I got my life back with the decision to get rid of the one eyed monster and I could never go back. My anxiety level went to almost Zero overnight and now I actually live my life rather than watch someone else live thiers or worse let some writer make one up for me to live vicariously.

Our grown kids still have a little trouble with it when they visit (no football on Thanksgiving) and people at work think I'm strange but I'm already strange for being the chicken lady so who cares!

 

[jjthink]

I do enjoy some fabulous TV shows that educate about animals and I watch the news to stay plugged in on what's happening in the world so that I can participate in making change on the things that I feel need changing (newspapers, especially, have a tremendous amount of misinformation in them - so does TV so one has to filter out the garbage). There are also a few TV shows that provide welcome comic relief after brain numbing intense work at work, and they keep me company while folding laundry or cleaning. All in all, it comes in handy for these purposes but I am appalled at the amount of garbage that has proliferated TV these days - it's very disturbing.
JJ

 

[Pelican49]

I'm not TV free and never will be.

 

[Henrietta23]

We dropped our cable to basic last year and at first I missed Animal Planet, HGTV, the History Channel and Food Network. Now we rarely have it on. DS watches a little PBS or a dvd now and then. Before it was a constant battle because Sponge Bob was on pretty much 24/7. I got so tired of him begging to watch something that I don't believe has a single redeeming feature to it. DH likes to watch the news before bed. Other than that I don't really miss it anymore. I use that time on reading up on chickens and ducks now! I wish now that we'd gotten rid of the TV before my son came along. We may yet. If all TV is going digital or whatever and the one we have now isn't good enough, we may just not replace it. Don't know how that whole thing is going to work. We'll see!

 

[amystours]

TV rarely, if ever, goes off here. Reason being, it's mostly "white noise". My addiction on the television is the Weather Channel, LOCAL news, and, of course, Jay Leno and the Monday night Headlines.

 

[CarriBrown]

No way. I'd miss Lost! There are a lot of shows we like to watch, but we do limit our TV time. Both DH and I would rather be outside (or on the computer

).

 

[KB3GZW]

The tv is never off, mainly for "white noise". But my favorite show is hands down Mythbusters. I also watch the Food Network, Science Channel and History Channel, all educational stuff. I also like the Deadliest Catch and Ax Men lately. I used to be into MTV ALOT, but when I turned 18 a year ago I noticed thats its pretty much no music at all. I really like FUSE and I only leave that on for my favorite music while doing stuff around the house. I dont like the LOST crap and Dancing with tv has beens.

 

[CrowinKing]

As soon as the sun goes down and I can't find anything else to do I watch tv mostly Discovery channel, travel channel, and National Geographic channel. I'm a Dirty jobs and Bizarre foods fanatic I could watch them all night they do some pretty weird stuff on there!

 

[KB3GZW]

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And I forgot about Dirty Jobs also.

 

[ivan3]

Is anyone else still listening over shortwave? The old (glowing tubes and all) Hallicrafters is on here most of the time (Voice of America news broadcasts in `Special English'? - amazing what you can do with a 1500 word American English vocabulary/ Radio Moscow?), guess I'm just getting old and pining for the days of mutual assured destruction.

Yes, Sat. TV is on 24/7 and it stays on one C-Span or another during the day - love that Book TV and shots of the snoozing Sergeant of Arms in the House. At night, I like to just switch to NASA and watch the taped feed of the earth from the vantage of of the ISS (can almost imagine it's peaceful down here as I drift off). Then the roo wakes me a 04:45 crowing over the baby monitor. Guess I Just feel I get more mileage out of the `wetware' by constantly seeking out the most extreme contrasts; which means that I won't waste time with vapid/derivative/shallow dreck (reruns, my friends. are only good for reminding you of what you should of been doing when you were watching it the first time). I would probably spend some serious time flipping channels if, like broadcast tv, the channels changed rapidly enough so that if one got lucky, one could create one's own show with occasional serendipitously sensible dialogue emerging from the fragmented yapping as the carpal tunnel got worse...

I'm just waiting for all that dark fiber to start lighting (even with the economy shrinking this stuff is going fast) up and that last mile to be forded - then I might get interested again (waiting to get my ticket punched to ride on the `son' of the Lambda Rail).

It's not about the signal, but the filtering and alteration thereof

Apologies for rambling, gotta go check the traps, and then pass out for a bit in low orbit