Could you give up TV for a month?

[808Husker in KCMO]

Sports is the only thing that keeps me on the cable bandwagon. If I could get mlb tv and watch in market games, I'd throw cable out the window immediately.

[NUance]

Update: Halfway to a month. I been sticking with this for a bit over two weeks now. I fell off the wagon a little bit the past couple of days. Watched a couple of hours of Law and Order and late night grazing for about three hours of TV total. But before that I was hanging pretty tough. Probably watched 90 minutes of tube in about a two week period.

[GSG]

I don't know if you have On Demand programming or not, but I've found it's a pretty good way to keep your TV time in check. I really only watch TV over lunch because the few shows that I do watch are On Demand. Other than that, sports and an occasional movie are the only watching I do that's not during my lunch hour.

[garn]

Depends on the time of year. If it weren't for sports, I could easily do without cable.

[The Dude]

I've gone from the Super Bowl until the kickoff of college football. A month is nothing. TV sucks.

[HUSKER 37]

The internet pretty much took over my regular tv watching time..although I still have it on for the background noise.

 

THis guy pounced on me at Best Buy last week trying to get me to switch dish providers..1st question I asked was about what was the lowe$t package that included the Big Ten Network..(Before last year, I would've avoided that channel).

Then I realized..Other than actual Husker Football games..With all the proliferation of "reality" TV and Sitcoms being even unfunnier than they were a decade or two ago...and I've pretty much "listened" to all the movies shown on my free 7-9 Starz channels...I have nothing to watch durring the off season.

[The Dude]

In the spirit of the thread I vow to watch < 1 hour of TV until the start of football season. The only reason I was watching TV anyways is because the Bulls were in the playoffs.

[RednScarlet]

Wouldn't be hard for me; might be for the wife.

We spent 5 years in England with little TV contact.

At the house, the 'TV Tax' was about $150 per color TV ( and you had to buy a British TV also ), so we did without most times.

(you can only watch BBC so long...)

Hardest part was no college football.

My sister-in-law taped (VHS) a lot of the Husker games and mailed them to us.

My teenage son took it the hardest. He actual had to talk to us sometimes!

We became closer as a family, so that was the plus side.