DAY 4
I've been rising at around 7am. It's easy to understand older folks affinity for rising early. More time. My non tv watching days have been filled with reading, writing, discussions and uninterrupted stretches of thinking. I can't imagine putting tv back into my life. For all the years I watched tv; hours and hours each day, suprisingly, or maybe not so, I'm having no struggle divorcing it at all.
posted by Our Money Staff @ 12:16 PM
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We've gone without TV for a while. We keep ours in the closet and use it for emergencies, an occasional movie and a show every now and then. We were without one for the first 5 years of our marriage, and have kept it in the closet for the past 6. We got one when my wife was spending so much time with the baby.
We have a daughter and a new one on the way. Our daughter has the luxury of not being stuck in front of the TV, and not having parents glued to the set either (as mine were). She likes TV occasionally, and we try not to be religious about it. There are some good things on. We didn't want to create some big taboo. The TV is just a non-issue.
What is most interesting to me about being TV-less is how freaky it is when you come back and watch it after missing a month or two. It's like jitter jitter sex sell jitter laugh sex sell jitter loud clash jitter sex sell jitter. The news will just scare the daylights out of anybody, and seems so weird when the reporter non-chalantly mentions horrific tragedies. The local news is unbearable. I can't believe people will subject themselves to it and the ads which are mainly targeted at gastrointestinal problems, headaches, cramps and all that.
People ask me, "How do you know what goes on?" US News & World Report, weather.com, cnn.com. The main comments I hear from colleagues are things like, "Did YOU see that?!? It was horrible!"
Anyways. I'm filling up you website. Take care. Happy no TVing.
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