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Cable costs getting you down? Consider cutting the cord.
Posted by: Katherine McDuffee
Friday, March 20, 2009 3:26 PM
Lately I feel like we are being stalked by the cable company. It seems like every day we get another piece of mail offering us a bundle (phone/internet/cable package) for only eighty dollars a month. Wow, what a deal that isn’t! We already get great phone and internet for half that price. Now we aren’t TV people. We have never had cable and we didn’t even bother getting a digital converter.
Just for fun let’s pretend I am a cable customer considering cancelling my subscription. What could I do with the four-hundred and eight dollars I spend each year on cable?
Buy 960 children’s books from the Champaign Library’s FriendShop used bookstore
Provide clean water for 480 people in Africa for an entire year with Blood: Water Mission
Pay extra on my mortgage
Take my husband on a last minute cruise (though I’d suggest avoiding the three hour ones)
Comments
Hmmm.Somehow I missed seeing this post.
Anyway,I've not spent a penny on cable, DDish, etc; since 1995. Till this change to digital TV, I'd get all the local stations and even Terre Haute or Indy by turning the antenna.
Alas, the loss of analog days have marooned me to only the local stations. They are 3.1+2, 12.1+2+3, 15.1, 17.1+2,
23.1 and 27.1+2 (where 27.2 duplicates which is a waste)
Suggestions for the money saved by not having cable:
1) SAVE IT!!
2) take a few music lessons
3) buy a light-weight, well-running bicycle
4) stock up on canned foods
5) fill up to 1/2 tank and splurge with an old-fashioned 'joy ride'
6) give it to credible charities or needy poor people (like lazy me)
7) SAVE IT!
Posted by Oliver on June 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM
