We have never been huge TV watchers in our family.
I do love me some Biggest Loser and a few cooking shows (especially ones with Gordon Ramsey) like Masterchef and Hell's Kitchen, but I can never keep track of when they're on, so we just watch those on Hulu.
Other than Biggest Loser, and the occasion that I'm bored and channel-surfing (we don't have cable, so it only takes a couple seconds to get through all the local channels), the TV is (was) hardly ever used.
My husband's sister was nice enough to give us their old TV when they upgraded.
That picture was taken back in January, but if I remember right, they gave it to us sometime in the late summer or fall of last year.
But, at the end of May this year, we got rid of it.
We realized that it would sit unused for days, if not weeks.
My husband and I got to thinking about the commercialization of young people and decided that although we are not really tempted or swayed by commercialism/materialism, our children might be. There is also, naturally, oodles of trash on TV these days that I don't want my kids to stumble upon or see on a commercial. Because of these reasons, and mainly because we just really never used it, we decided we were done with TV.
It was so nice of my SIL to give it to us, and assuming they were done with us (they have several TVs, so I figured they didn't need it back), I found a couple who was renting a TV, paying month-to-month for it, so I passed this one on to them. It didn't occur to me to ask my SIL if she wanted it back. I hope she didn't. :(
Lately, however, as I'm a bit more tired than usual, I have been kind of wishing I had a TV. However, what we had hoped for when we considered that desire returning is coming to fruition: we're getting more creative with our downtime. Yes, I do spend more time on the computer some days than I used to. And I wish that weren't the case. Exchanging one screen for another wasn't the goal here. But, we are reading more, hanging out more, conversing more, and enjoying each other's company as a family more. That sounds like suddenly a lot has changed, but it really hasn't. Like I said, we hardly ever had the TV on anyway. This decision just pushed us to the next level of creative uses of our time.
But, in honesty, there are times I wish I could just prop up my feet and veg out watching the tube.
Beyond that though, what I miss the most about it is using it as a tool for teaching childbirth class. I would hook up my computer to the screen to show birth videos, informational websites, and much more. It was such a great teaching tool! Now I just have my laptop and that seems kind of lame. Maybe we should get a projector and screen! ;)
I do love me some Biggest Loser and a few cooking shows (especially ones with Gordon Ramsey) like Masterchef and Hell's Kitchen, but I can never keep track of when they're on, so we just watch those on Hulu.
Other than Biggest Loser, and the occasion that I'm bored and channel-surfing (we don't have cable, so it only takes a couple seconds to get through all the local channels), the TV is (was) hardly ever used.
My husband's sister was nice enough to give us their old TV when they upgraded.
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| This is our tiny living room with the TV from my SIL |
But, at the end of May this year, we got rid of it.
We realized that it would sit unused for days, if not weeks.
My husband and I got to thinking about the commercialization of young people and decided that although we are not really tempted or swayed by commercialism/materialism, our children might be. There is also, naturally, oodles of trash on TV these days that I don't want my kids to stumble upon or see on a commercial. Because of these reasons, and mainly because we just really never used it, we decided we were done with TV.
It was so nice of my SIL to give it to us, and assuming they were done with us (they have several TVs, so I figured they didn't need it back), I found a couple who was renting a TV, paying month-to-month for it, so I passed this one on to them. It didn't occur to me to ask my SIL if she wanted it back. I hope she didn't. :(
Lately, however, as I'm a bit more tired than usual, I have been kind of wishing I had a TV. However, what we had hoped for when we considered that desire returning is coming to fruition: we're getting more creative with our downtime. Yes, I do spend more time on the computer some days than I used to. And I wish that weren't the case. Exchanging one screen for another wasn't the goal here. But, we are reading more, hanging out more, conversing more, and enjoying each other's company as a family more. That sounds like suddenly a lot has changed, but it really hasn't. Like I said, we hardly ever had the TV on anyway. This decision just pushed us to the next level of creative uses of our time.
But, in honesty, there are times I wish I could just prop up my feet and veg out watching the tube.
Beyond that though, what I miss the most about it is using it as a tool for teaching childbirth class. I would hook up my computer to the screen to show birth videos, informational websites, and much more. It was such a great teaching tool! Now I just have my laptop and that seems kind of lame. Maybe we should get a projector and screen! ;)
I grew up in a TV free house and I really really wish we had one now. My husband grew up with TV and it is inconceivable to him that we not have one even though we both work two jobs and are never home before midnight so we never watch primetime TV.
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