Could you Live Without TV?

The TV in our living finally died a couple weeks ago. Screen was getting bluer and couldnt pick up signal. Found one she liked at local electronics chain that was on sale for Memorial day. Out of stock so we paid and waited for it. Came in today and she is getting it hooked up. I miss the good old days when you could just plug it in and turn it on. I HATE technology. God i sound like my folks did years back!

My question to you FHC is could you live without TV? For several days i have. Its almost always on but 90% of the time i dont watch it. Having A.D.D. doesnt help. My face usually buried in the computer. She watches in the bedroom and i rarely like anything she watches. I dont have any regular shows that i watch either. I turn it on and "watch" the weather channel for hours in the morning.

 

I love to watch sports but when they all decided to become social justice warriors a few years back, I took the year off. I missed it but got through. I also enjoy local news. I’m sure I could get by without but I prefer not to.

 

Yup, we have one small tv but its generally off unless the kids are watching something. If I sit down and turn it on I’m usually asleep pretty quick. I do like to catch the local news but that rarely happens.

 

Separated from my ex in 2006. All I had was a computer/internet for entertainment until the new wife wanted a TV. That was 2010. It is hooked up to a blue ray player and the internet for YouTube, Netflix and Hulu.

And I never turn it on. I think the wife watches it when I’m on the road though.

I can’t stomach the idiot box when I’m in the truck stops. Even weather channel is nothing but created drama.

 

Got one in the bedroom. I turn it on when I go to bed and set the timer for 1 hour. I never see it turn off, wife says I’m snoring in about 15 minutes.

 

There’s a reason they call it “programming”
I pay for it every month but haven’t watched it in years. My wife likes watching corny Hallmark Channel movies and all sorts of shows that generally make me cringe. I used to like watching the history channel and other educational programs, but I can get all that and more on YouTube.

 

Have one but dont watch it much. Not anything on that i care to watch for the most part. We do watch an occasional movie.

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I could live without the TV but I have to have my music. I listen to pretty much everything out there.

 

Mine went away May 19 2010. Haven’t missed it a bit. I still see TV here and there, nothing has changed in the last 13 years except maybe special effects. When the kids moved out and into their own places they also don’t have TV’s. We would read a lot more and we spent a huge amount more time together. Their studies got immensely better and their friends turned our place into the base camp(huge side benefit for a single parent). I did replace the TV with full size air hockey, pool, fooseball and other things in the basement.



Owl

 

I need my TV, I am a 58 year old millennial!!

Skinny jeans and a man bun are my new goals!

 

pics of the man bun if and when you get there. NO skinny jean pics please!

 

I can live without 90% of what is on, but to have a TV to link YouTube and a movie subscription to occasionally watch something, yeah. there’s really no content on the big three broadcast networks now.

Anything of interest is usually a verbatim theft of British television

 

We never had a TV in our house when we were growing up and the only reason we did in 1972 was because my dad was in a body cast from August to October and my Mom bought him small black and white one.
We did read a lot of books though.

Did I mention she was a librarian?

Gary

 

I grew up watching all the great oldies
Bugs Bunny
Andy Griffin
Etc.
I find myself watching the oldies over & over.

 

We didn't have a TV at all the first few years after getting married...would go next door to the inlaws to watch something on Sunday evening, that was about it.
But we could live without one, not a big deal...the kids use it probably the most, then I will watch some history channel reruns in the evening while I surf FHC/etc...that or some game show, or oldies like the Andy Griffith show, Hogans Hero's, or Green Acres maybe...we also like Family Feud with Steve Harvey, dudes funny. Maybe catch the weather guessers report before bed too.
And like Farmchuck , I make the kids watch Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, etc, with me on Saturday mornings so that they know what real cartoons are like, not this goofy crap they pawn off as "cartoons" now...although they don't get to watch much of that junk anyways.
Honestly it would be harder to give up internet surfing...dunno how we got by before!?

 

Would I live w/o, yes. Do I want to, nope.

 

When we moved a few years ago, we left our tv mounted at house we sold as it covered an unfinished section of the gas fireplace mantle. New place is small and no real good place for a tv so…we didn’t get one. Only did last fall after renovating garage area for more space. Still rarely use it…

 

I could live without TV, did it for years before. I don't watch that much anyway - the local news, a couple of shows that have to be DVR'd because they come on later than my bedtime. I fall asleep to the Science channel (or History when it isn't aliens) or Animal Planet. I should set my TV on a timer, but it would probably wake me up when it shuts off. I already wake up a couple of times a night, so shut it off then anyway.

Most of the time I'm reading while "watching". Take my TV if you must, but don't take my Kindle!

 

We stream everything. We do have a TV in the kitchen for morning news/weather hooked up to rabbit ears in the attic. I try to switch it off when it flips from local to the national morning news. It get really sensationalized.

I work from home a few days a week. Being in a quiet house doesn’t work for me. I stream music in the background.