Pulled the Plug...

We recently pulled the plug on our satellite provider. After completing our annual financial review and taking stock of all the "leaks" in our money bucket, we realized just how much those reruns of MASH and Andy Griffith cost. We pay by the year and that gives us almost a free month but even with that, the tally came to $80+ a month. If the programming was outstanding, it wouldn't be so difficult to defend the expenditure, but every night we scrolled through the channels and couldn't find anything we really wanted to watch. Hundreds of channels and click, click, click, and always defaulted to Andy, MASH, or America's Funniest Home Videos.

Frustration boils when you have several TVs, add on HD, add this, add that and next thing you know you are talking real money. Pull the plug! Beach vacation consumed two weeks of the initial cold turkey and we are still adjusting to what we call "regular TV". So far, the only program that has held any grip on us has been, "America's Got Talent". Don't know how much talent we will end up with, but at least it is interesting and amazing to see how much pleasure the judges seem to take in holding the vulnerable acts over a slow cook fire while they decide if they really do "have talent" and will go to Hollywood. I'm being brutally honest here!