The thought of initially canceling our cable made us both a little nervous. I have no idea why.
After months and months of dealing with our cable provider, we have had enough. We’ve made tons of phone calls, had 4 different service technicians out, and been “disconnected” from 2 different supervisors. We’ve even threatened to cancel our service, which sadly prompted more action than reminding them we’d been loyal customers for years. With all that in mind, we decided to cancel our cable and put the money will be saving in the house fund. Our motive was to say “take that!” and I think secretly we hoped they’d show up the next day with a magical fix for the problems plaguing our service.
Last week, Brian was taking a graduate glass at GMU, and had homework pretty much every night. While he was working, I was on the couch reading, working on my bible study, writing some snail mail only getting up to flip the record! After several nights of dinner at the table, conversation, making our way through our record collection, we realized that not only had we not turned on the TV, but we didn’t even miss it. At that point we decided that we would go ahead and cancel the cable, but we would do it because we really wanted to! How many times do we walk in and just turn the TV on to have background noise … or watch random shows and re-runs just because. Don’t get me wrong. I love TV and think there are some really great programs on, if you can navigate the trash (yes, I’m talking to you Real Housewives of DC), and yes, I can get Project Runway on Hulu. We all have our guilty pleasure.
So, tonight is the last night of cable boxes, hd, and the dvr! Here’s to books, records, conversations, and netflix!