I'm a money saving machine these days! Either that, or I've decided to punish myself for no apparant reason. There's the challenge I decided to make public yesterday and then today I called up and spoke to a very nice lady at RCN who helped me get rid of my land line and my cable. I'm keeping the internet (I'm not totally crazy!) but my roomie and I are both trying to make an effort to save some money so we decided that a land line was not needed (I never actually knew the phone number to it, it was more for her) and that I could live without watching hours of the Food Network. They said that everything would be shut off as of today and that someone would be out to disconnect it all at the poll tomorrow but I am hoping that they forget about me and decide that I've been such a good customer that I can have my cable for free. (Yes, I realize that I am crazy for thinking that. You should already know that I am just a little crazy to begin with.)
I do have to laugh a little at my horror of being without cable. I didn't grow up with cable. I think my parents got it at some point when I was in high school but between youth group, choir, drama and various sports, I didn't have a lot of time to watch it. I didn't have cable while in college. It was a treat to watch when home during breaks. I didn't have cable the 3 1/2 years I lived in Pasadena and it really never bothered me. I only got cable when I moved to Chicago and over the past three years I have become completely addicted! It's horrible!
So, here's to a life filled with more conversations with friends and less time watching meaningless junk!
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Good for you! We decided to get rid of cable a few years back for the exact same reasons. Aside from having the Food Network on ALL DAY LONG sometimes, we really weren't utilizing it. It's instant savings!
"Meaningless junk"? Sniffle, sniff, sniffle. But I love my Food Network and HGTV and occasionally Animal Planet! Yet I feel so convicted that you and Kelly have given up cable. Is Jesus trying to tell me something?!?! (Please, Lord, say no.) Matt and I are also on a mission to better track how we're spending and to stick to a budget, and I have to say that seeing the annual grand total of what we spend on Dish Network and Netflix alone is kind of nausea-inducing.
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