in an effort to keep paying our mortgage and to prevent our wallets from being raped by the cable company, my wife and i no longer have cable television. Good riddance...except for you seinfeld, csi, west wing, history channel, family guy, and the final days of le tour de france.
i don't mind not having cable because we have enough movies and books to last us quite a while...plus, we have the added saving of around 30 dollars a month. i am also trying to sell one of our tv's (in exchange for some music software...maybe reason 3.0 or something else that will tide me over.)
i wonder if i could get rid of cable internet. i don't think i could because anti-dialup is a pillar of my platform...oh yeah, and my wife needs it to look for jobs and stuff. i am also not a strong advocate for single income homes. but whatever it will happen someday (around the same time i re-enter the "student lifestyle."
has anyone read Bruce Campbell's new book "Make Love the Bruce Campbell way"? i want to read it, but it isn't worth 25 dollars to me. you know what is though...food.
i wonder what life would be like with two incomes...according to my wife, it would only mean more saving.
thankfully my employer provides me with a vehicle and fuel...and healthcare, and a good salary, and...why am i going back to school?
oh yeah...so i can be happy.
is it possible to be happy poor? i don't know. i hope so. i wanna grow up to be a poor doctor (prof. of music comp) unless film friends let me parasite my way to a good living (preferable to me.)
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I feel your pain on the income thing. The lack of equipment, too. I often think of what it would be like to get rid of cable. And have more money... My wife and I have a ton of movies on DVD, too. Why can't we watch those? It's not like HBO has anything worth watching. I would definitely miss the Food Network, though.
I believe, there is such a thing as poor and happy, though. I'm poor (because I'm a composer, too) but I'm happy because occasionally I still get to write for live players! That and my wondeful wife keeps me grounded. Follow the path that makes you happy.
I was perfectly happy with my antenna (on a good Sunday I even got Fox), but thanks to a free cable in our new place, hello (and goodbye) home shopping networks. I really only watch the channels I got before, but they come in better.
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