, landline phone, yes........but I stood my ground and we do not have tv.The kids watch stuff that I preview on netflix. We do redbox and bb.
It has not been without its challenges, but, all in all, it has been good for our family. Ds10 has what can be called 'screen addicition' so there are no electronic games and no tv now -- it has been a positive change for him -- he is reading books now (heretofore, 'reading' was only something that he did for school). We do play board games, we do more read alouds, all three kids knit (which they like to do when we read-aloud), we bake together, we make craft stuff for just about every goofy little holiday that comes along.
This is not to say that there are nights when I would love to stare at the screen and just veg............but I can do that with or without cable/satellite/FIOS.
I can watch pretty much what I used to watch (not much) on my computer, and dh is able to get a fair number of football games and baseball online.
There are folks at co-op who look at us like we are from another planet if the kids mention that we don't have tv service (we have a gorgeous flat screen tv - just no tv service) and there are families who nod in agreement that they do not have tv service either.
For us, this has been a good thing. I think that dh is amazed that HE made it for one year!
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ReplyDeletegood for you! We were t.v. free for about 4 years, then dh got tired of bumming of relatives for superbowl, so we got cable. We just disconnected it this week, -whoo-hoo! We are slashing our budget and we just couldn't justify it, he hardly watch it. We watch things on netflix, also :)
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