dropping satellite

I don't think the lady believed Brent.

He called to cancel DirecTV and the lady went into her whole script and Brent interrupted her and said, "we do not have any TVs in the house, please cancel the account"

That's not in the script......poor lady. So she doggedly pursued her script and at some point asked Brent what he would be replacing DirecTV with. He repeated that he had no TVs to watch anything on. She wasn't to be deterred, "cable, internet or local antenna sir?" He gave in and said local antenna.

Yes, we really do not have a single TV in the house. We do have one sitting at my Mom's. It's 19 inches and she was going to hang on to it, but changed her mind. It's just waiting to find a new home.

One might be tempted to ask "How's that working for you?"

It's going OK.

My laundry isn't getting folded because every person in this house is used to folding laundry while they watch TV.

And that seems to be the hardest part of having no TV. Really.

We are gradually adjusting and the laundry is getting done.

It's been ten days. I had to look that up and think back to when the last TV left the house, that's how much it hasn't affected us in the end.

I do think part of that is that we just were not big TV watchers in the first place. We had a handful of shows we watched, well maybe two if you count every show that every family member wanted to record. And we only watched recorded shows. And mostly we only watched while folding laundry......seven people evidently equals enough laundry to watch all our favorite shows.

We do have a few funny moments, when someone wants to watch a VHS movie and it takes us a minute to realize we can't. Or somebody suggests we get a movie and I remind them the laptop is our only option. That dims the enthusiasm a lot.

The kids have had a great attitude about it. They understand that we're trying to save money, by canceling satellite and make money by selling the TVs, and players. They are very, very motivated to help us get our debt paid off and it's neat to see their enthusiasm! It carries me when I'm at low ebb.

And yes the original plan was to watch shows on the internet. But we aren't at the computers enough to really sit and just watch a show. So no, the internet hasn't replaced our TVs. It could, but it hasn't yet.

Yes really, DirecTV lady, there are no TVs in our house.