[LuckyRobin]

We cancelled our cable in July. There are times when I miss it, but those are during storms when I'd like to tune in to see what the weather is doing in the forecast. I can find the stuff online but it isn't as easy. We still have a TV, we get no channels at all, but we have the $10 Netflix plan and we rent from the library or borrow from friends so any series we want to watch eventually becomes available, we just have to wait. Our cable was $65 a month.

Internet is $220 a year, dial-up, unlimited. My DH works in a very isolated area of Alaska and it is much cheaper for us to email than to talk on the phone. Plus I use it to get the weather updates, keep up on the school website, the kids' sports registrations, the news, banking, road closures during storms, to write to relatives. I'd give up my phone before I'd give up internet access in my home.

Don't have satellite radio. Cell phones are for emergency use for me as we live rurally and I have two young kids and can't get stranded, and travel use for DH. We have the cheapest plan that will allow us to have two phones and still give us reception for the majority of the highway between our house and the city. That's $72 a month. I hate paying that but the track phones don't work out here.