Back in May, when we rearranged a few things, we moved our only television to this wall in the living room.
The only problem was, that wall didn’t have a cable hook-up. The plan was to move a cable line there and/or look into wireless cable. Here we are, 3 months later and, turns out, we don’t miss watching television at all. We do have a Hulu and Netflix account, but we are both surprised at how okay we are without cable. This past weekend, we moved the television downstairs since we haven’t used it in 3 months anyway and it feels like so many possibilities opened up. Before we were so concerned with how the room would be laid out so everyone could see the tv. ??? Seems so silly now.
Now we’re contemplating putting the fireplace we’ve been pining for on this currently sad, sad, sad wall (I have a whole Pinterest board dedicated to that upcoming project here)–which feels like it makes more sense. As always, we’ll see where we end up. But the whole thing got me wondering, do you have cable in your home? How many televisions do you own? I must say, it feels strangely freeing to not have to look at that black box anymore.
We have one TV, always have, rarely turn it on, no cable, ugly antenna, occasional movie or PBS.
Small, boxy and in a cabinet. I keep brainstorming placement because of the cabinet (too tall) and antenna sprouting up. It is so limiting in our house to always be arranging so that the TV can be seen, might consider moving it now.
I live alone, and I have not TV, but a get a lot of books… and enjoy every one of them! Your girls are gorgeous!
Thank you!
We have one 47″ tv in our living room without cable. We have Netflix, Hulu and because we have Amazon Prime we also have their tv service. We don’t miss/want cable at all. We also have an antenna that we use for watching basic tv live. I’m really into a lot of shows on ABC and FOX so i love watching them when they come on without the cost of cable.
About three years ago, we move the TV out of our “great room” and turned our furniture to face the kitchen. We haven’t looked back! So much better for family time without TV noise in the background.
We also cancel cable for most of the year. But every football season, we have to sign back up to watch the games and play fantasy. It’s a family activity, so I don’t mind. But I HATE cable! Netflix and Hulu make it so easy not to have it. If only they would do NFL as well.
We have one TV in our condo and no cable. A year or so ago our association discontinued our cable plan and we never got one of our own. After a few months without it I missed the background noise, so I bought a digital antenna for $40. We get close to 30 channels for free (albeit there are a lot in Spanish and a handful of shopping networks) but we get the local news and lots of great PBS channels. I do look forward to the day when I have that extra space (in a house) for a TV room and a living room w/o a tv!