You might wonder why the heck I blog so much. I mean, Dancing with the Stars is on! Well, I’ll tell you a secret. We don’t watch TV. No, really. Seriously! Don’t look at me like that…
It started out because we were just plain cheap. When the Better Half and I first moved in together and were first married, we lived in another part of the state that was more rural/agrarian, and lots more mountainous. You had to have cable to get any TV reception. And, get this? Basic cable in our town was $40.00. !!!!! Forget it. So we never bought a TV, and if we wanted to watch a movie, we huddled around my laptop.
Later on, my Dad bought a new TV, and we took his old one. And it’s Old. I remember our buying it in the late 80s, when VCR hookups were new. We therefore bought a DVD/VCR combo, and we watch videos on the TV– but it gets no reception at all. None. I know– I’ve tried when Lionel Richie’s on Oprah, and even the sound sucks.
It’s been good for us. The Better Half was a History Channel junkie. Me? I was all about FoodTV, Scarecrow & Mrs. King and 90210 reruns, E True Hollywood Stories, and Behind the Music. The only thing I really miss is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Otherwise? Everything’s available on DVD if it’s any good, and we get our news online. We’re not sports fans, never watched reality shows to begin with, and, well, now I’ve lost my immunity to TV and quickly get overstimulated if it’s on. (This is the one problem with visiting Momma Better Half– she always has the TV on, loud, and I can’t concentrate on talking to her when the TV is on.)
“But what do you do?” Read. Eat dinner. Blog. Take pictures. Go for walks. Play online games. Talk to each other. Go out. Go to bed early. Whittle clothespins by the fire, and clean our rifles after the last attack on the settlement. The usual stuff. There are lots of people who love us despite our weirdness, but I occasionally get someone who is just unable to have a conversation about anything that doesn’t involve what was on TV last night. They usually say, “Well, just wait until you have children.” Umm, yeah, not gonna go there again right now.
It’s not that TV’s bad. It’s that it’s far, far too good, and I wouldn’t be able to stop once I started up again.
we have a tv, but i rarely watch anything. the girlie likes to watch stuff, and so does the husband, but i’d rather read a book.