Is anyone else telly-free?

welshbookworm

In September I realised I wasn't watching TV very much and I got rid of my set top box . I don't miss it at all! I listen to the radio and about once or twice a week watch something on catch-up TV.
£150 a year saved YAY very MSE

Poppy_Golightly

I'm considering getting rid of my tv which will save licence and subscription fees.

Has anyone else done this and successfully lived without their telly? I do remember doing this about 20 years ago for a year and that was probably the most productive year of my life!

helen_jelly

I haven't done it but if it was just me and hubby here the tv would go, good luck with it, theres nothing but trash on anyway :]

Funky_Bold_Ribena

I had no tv for several years, and have never got used to having one again. I use it when I need it and never just sit in front of it just because. I'd get rid forever but the OH likes his sports on there.

joedenise

If it was just me the TV would definitely go but DH watches it all evening, every evening, even if it's repeats. Drives me nuts at times.

Denise

Popperwell

More a radio/muic fan...have dropped out of the loop on TV most of the time and for years just gave up. I don't have Sky. Have a TV but rarely switch it on and I understand unless they can prove its switched on you can own a TV that isn't used.

Recently I have watched "odd" TV programmes on catch up on the PC which I am allowed to without a TV license(until they close that loophole)and toyed with the idea of doing away with it. But I paid up for one more year. So am covered until May 2014.

I probably could fall back into watching TV for hours and hours especially if I got into soaps/drama's etc...but tend to watch food programmes and documentaries.

With the money saved I'd rather keep the internet access.

Steve059

I don't have a TV set or any other digital broadcast receiving equipment. I obviously have a personal computer, but I don't watch television programmes on "catch up" services.

Personally, I regard television programmes as "electronic wallpaper" and "chewing gum for the mind". I listen to my radio and watch DVD films on the PC.

Despite all of this, I'm probably still a licence evading criminal in the eyes of BBC/TVL/Capita.

When I visit friends, who have God knows how many television channels, it always amuses me that they still can't find anything worth watching.

pigpen

I've not had a tv for 20 years.. I'd not have one if someone offered to pay for it for me!

We knit and sew and talk and play silly pc games together.

Anything we want to watch we have on DVD and I have lots of childrens rubbish on DVD which I convert to avi and store on an external harddrive for the littlies to watch..

LameWolf

How I wish my DH would agree to get rid of the Idiot-Box. It currently only gets used for two programmes a week, both of which are for his benefit.

I tape them for him, as I can't stomach the ad breaks and we catch them at the weekend while having lunch - once we've eaten, I pick up a Sudoku or something to do while he finishes watching.

When I had my first home (going back to 1982) I never had a TV and never wanted one. It crept in when I married the XH, and his aunt gave us a black'n'white portable as a wedding present. If I'd had my way, we never would have had one at all.

After I divorced XH and moved in with my now DH, he already had a TV - understandable I guess, as he lived alone at the time. However, it's over 20 years old, and when eventually it dies, I shall be heavily canvassing not to replace it.

Callie22

We don't have a tv - we have a playstation, a monitor and an internet connection, and that's more than enough for us. We do subscribe to Netflix but mainly because it's a heck of a lot cheaper than buying box-sets or renting DVDs - for not much more than the price of one rental we have a month's access to lots of programmes, and so we can watch a film or a couple of episodes of a series at the weekend.

Having said that, we don't often watch much and I don't like having the tv on in the background. I'll put music on if I feel like some noise. For the most part, I really appreciate coming home from work and sitting in silence for a while.