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TV - A poll of sorts
Do you have a TV in your bedroom?
Would you consider cutting TV out of your life (meaning, cable, sattelite, etc.)?
Re: TV - A poll of sorts
Yes, we do.
I would need a reason that I felt 100% behind, not just experimentally. LOL
Yes, we have a tv in our bedroom. We rarely watch it but my Wii is hooked up to it.
I don't think we would ever cut the cable. We use it for background noise more than intent TV watching, but I kind of like having it. Now, if money was tight and we needed to cut something, it would be the first thing to go.
I'm sorry, Val, I missed that you asked about cutting it out. Until the great digital conversion of last year (was it really just last year?), we had just the standard TV - like 6 local channels (sometimes, depending on the weather. LOL)
We have the most basic cable we can get right now. We don't NEED it, but we really enjoy having it because it gives us so many more options. It's also worked to give me a little feel of the "city/travel" life I want but can't actually have (thank you Travel Channel, Food Network.)
We could cut it out, but again,... I'd need a good reason. To F/U what Mandy said, eating out would go before cable. LOL I'd find other ways to be thriftier without giving up cable, but if it had to go, it'd go.
We don't have a tv in our room and I'm trying to keep it that way for now. DH would watch it all night, and I wouldn't fall asleep with it on, I'd get to caught up in the shows.
If we needed to, we'ld cut cable. I don't watch it that much to begin with but right now SPROUT (toddler channel) is a lifesaver with David at th emoment.
Sorry, I got interrupted right as I was posting.
We've never had a TV in our bedroom...well, Mike had one when I met him, but I really really really don't want one in our bedroom now. We originally decided to get a cable outlet in our new bedroom stictly for resale purposes, but now Mike's second guessing even that b/c it's not like we're going to use it.
Which brings me to my second question...I realized yesterday that the TV is used solely for background noise. We watch 2 shows/week and half the time we miss them and end up watching them online. I could totally live w/o cable and Mike seems to be behind it too but everyone else thinks we're nuts. We'll keep the TV so we can hook the compter, blu ray and Wii up to it. We also get Netflix, so it's mostly movies we watch...and I'm considering breaking down on Mike's PS3 obsession. It's not a money thing, but more of a waste thing.
.: Diary of a Recovering Runner :.
I'm going to go out on a limb here... you guys aren't planning on selling all that soon, and from what I understand, you can have the cable company install a box wherever it's needed. (When we moved in, our landlord added ~4 more boxes throughout the house for flexibility if we wanted to move furniture. He'd commented the jacks were in weird places and he'd just fix that. When the cable company came, the guy just zipped the faceplate on and the connector.)
So all that to say - if you're not going to use it, don't get it. People, in my experience, don't decide to take a house because of the cable jacks. In fact, they don't even consider that or realize it. LOL
For us, that's part of our routine - we go into the bedroom, watch a little TV while Xena eats her Kong (then inhales the rest of her food before chewing on a Nylabone for maybe 5 minutes.) It's routine for us. It helps us wind down.
So if you don't need it/don't use it... go without. It's not like you can't add it back if you decide you do need/want it later on.
We have a tv in the bedroom. It's not on very much unless I want to watch something different from him or we will turn it on when we get ready for bed and watch the news before bed.
I'd cut cable if I had to. There's other things I could easily cut out before cable. My parents cable was out all last week and my mom was saying how much she loved it.
As a F/U to what Paula said - if you don't plan on hooking up the cable, I would have the cable ran throughout the house. It's one thing to add boxes but it's another thing to wire a house for cable. I would have it ran through the house, but just don't have the boxes put in.
When my parents bought our old house, it didn't have cable ran. They practically had to rip out three walls when they put it in (and they even ran it through the basement and attic - just some areas weren't accessible enough).
I completely agree with this! It's not like it's going to save you a ton of money if you don't put that jack there. Plus they are not very noticeable. Like Mandy said some places are not easily accessible to install the cable later on.
This made me laugh. When I bought my first house, my mom would point out ALL the cable and phone jacks (because of what happened with our old house not having cable ran). Then when we bought our second house, I was looking for the cable and phone jacks.
The first time I looked at my first house, I didn't pay ANY attention. And MH thought I was insane for pointing them out in our second house.
I look for them in every house too mainly because I'm visually how the room would be setup. Also because our house came with a cable jack in the living room and a telephone jack in the kitchen and that drove me nuts because I want a jack of each in every room weather I use them or not in case I want to use them one day!
Well, now that I know you guys are TV people, I'm thinking we should just get the jack...we weren't ever considering the box in our room. It's only $160 and considering the amount of cash we're already spending on the new house, it seems funny to balk over $160.
I'm like Paula though...I don't care where the jacks are when we're looking. I didn't even know we had one in our current bedroom until last weekend.
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