I Cut The Cable TV Cord….

…..and my husband is freaking out.

Can anyone relate? It has been years of steadily increasing rates for so many channels we don’t even watch! Who needs 25 music channels? 50 sports channels? We don’t. We watch (no, he watches) 1 local news station 15 minutes in the morning followed by 15 minutes of ESPN. In the evening, after watching a streaming episode of our latest show, the tv goes to Big Bang Theory where it’s background noise for the next hour. Of course right now, weekends are football – but on Red Zone! Streaming!

I received the bill for this month – $307! Our internet and modem rental is $110 of that.

I had enough. I called Comcast and told them I wanted to cancel. Initially they said “let’s see if we can save you some money”, but I said “No, the latest increase was just the final straw”. We’ll be returning the cable box and modem this afternoon.

We have a Vizio Smart TV and pay for Netflix, and Hulu/Disney/ESPN and I just changed those to “with ads”.

I went to a class at the library two years ago on “cutting the cord”. I took notes and have all the options typed up.

A good option is Hulu TV because it gives us CBS which has the local station we like, four ESPN networks, and a DVR feature. When Survivor and Amazing Race come around, we’ll have to sign up for Paramount+ for the time period. Or maybe YouTube TV is a better option because it just occurred to my Hulu carries ABC network shows, not CBS network! Learning, still learning.

He said to me, “with the cost of live tv, we’ll only save $100 a month”. Oh how comfortably we live….

Moving forward, each month when I pay the internet and modem rental, I’m going to take $100 that would have gone to shareholders demanding higher returns, middle management, and CEO working towards their golden parachutes and put it in an envelope in my safe for US not THEM.

Have you cut the cord? What do you use for an alternative live tv source? Did you have to drag anyone kicking and screaming with you?