Turning the Cable Off

Yes you read that right, and the world did not end either. We turned our cable off over six months ago. I will never forget the day Tony told me we were going to turn it off either. We were driving home from a friends and Tony was just like you know I like the idea of no cable. Huh?? What? My husband a sports fanatic and wrestling follower just said he wanted to turn the cable off!

After breathing again and checking to make sure the man in the front seat was really my husband. I said I never am gonna have time to watch it anyways with the boys coming. So we thought about it, mulled it over, and looked at the options. First of all cable can be expensive esp., then there is the fact that I really personally don't have the time to watch 300 channels. I don't even think I knew every channel we had!

So the day came to turn it off you should have heard the cable company try to keep us as customers. Hehehe they offered us free months to! We were prepared though and Tony stuck to his guns about turning it off. Now if any of you know my wonderful husband you know how he has little patentice for things that don't work right for him.

We knew we need a antenna so we got that, and hooked it up. Of course that was fun. Can't just sit the antenna on top of the TV. Not on an Air Force Base at least. Planes mess up signals and I was slowly regreating agreeing to this crazy idea. I mean I can handle no cable but no tv! That I refused to let happen. This is when the man with the great I idea started to get mad. Mumbling....well we won't go there with what he exactly said as he stompped around the living room holding the antenna in his hands.

After about an hour we found a good spot that was ok as long as you moved it every time you changed the channel. This was fine with me as long as I had some TV I was ok, but this was unacceptable for the man of the house who continued this process 4 more times with diffrent antennas. I even got to laughing as he snaked the cord outside to find just the right spot. This by the way was better then watching TV as he was holding the thing and going around the yard saying "Can you see it now? How about now? Anything yet?" Until he got mad enough to make his own. Here is the link to a video on how to do it:

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-get-free-hdtv-with-a-coat-hanger-antenna-158597/

Finally we had an antenna that worked. It took awhile to get used to no Food Network, no WWE three times a week, and no DVR. I think that was the biggest adjustment I made at least. We get quite a few channels on it, which is funny cause we worked so hard on getting the antenna worked out and now I hardly ever watch TV. I leave it off all day, and we only watch it ever so often. Tony gets his Wrestling fix on Friday nights, a few games and Nascar on the weekends.

The best thing about not having cable or just turning the TV off is time. I always complained about no time. Now I have lots of time. I have time to make bread, we go for walks as a family, I sew, and we spend more quality time together. So all in all I think it has been not only money saving, great for our health, but has also given us a chance to spend time with each other.