No TV for one week?

starving_student · #1 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 02:14 PM

Who else is in?

HalMd · #2 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 02:45 PM

I'm in, but my wife, son and in-laws may not play along.

Actually I went almost three years without TV and loved it. I suggest that you unplug it and put it in a basement or closet.

Good luck, and great idea. If you don't save $$$, then you will probably save brain cells.

Broken Arrow · #3 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 03:50 PM

Considering that I don't have cable... I'll play!

Or... does that automatically disqualify me?

CraigThor · #4 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 04:15 PM

I'm in, oh yeah no TV for almost a year now

tinapbeana · #5 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 06:27 PM

growing up our house was broken into and the TV was stolen. we went radio only for a couple of years and enjoyed it thoroughly.

even when we did get a TV set we only got 2 channels, so it was like not having TV at all! sunday mornings we'd turn the radio onto a jazz station and turn the TV onto the gospel singers but keep the sound off, so it would look like the folks on TV were singing and dancing to the jazz... yes, i am that easily amused!

tgavin71 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 07:30 PM

I suppose I could do it but getting the kids to join in would be near impossible. I tried to get them to have an electronic free. No TV, xbox or computer one day. Said it would be like camping at home. They lasted for 20 mins. Ahhhgg

kimiko · #7 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 07:34 PM

Sign me up, I need it.

Bookie · #8 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Broken Arrow

Considering that I don't have cable... I'll play!

Or... does that automatically disqualify me?

I'll see you and raise you. I don't have a television.

abowers · #9 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 08:12 PM

One of the families I used to babysit for did that -- there's a week in April or something that is national don't watch TV week or something. They did that every year.

We've done that before-- for a couple months-- but that was when we didn't have cable, so all we got was the local PBS station, and it was through static, at that. (But we got Netflix instead).

I can't do it now -- I'm hooked on Boston Legal & Grey's Anatomy.

ChimbleySweep · #10 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 08:15 PM

I have DVR with my dish subscription. Is it cheating if I just record my favorite shows and then watch them next week?

PRICEPLUS · #11 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 09:48 PM

I'll do it but I don't know that I'll like it!

PauletteGoddard · #12 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006, 05:13 AM

Too easy. Now, no Internet for a week, that's a challenge for me.

Broken Arrow · #13 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006, 05:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tinapbeana

growing up our house was broken into and the TV was stolen. we went radio only for a couple of years and enjoyed it thoroughly.

even when we did get a TV set we only got 2 channels, so it was like not having TV at all! sunday mornings we'd turn the radio onto a jazz station and turn the TV onto the gospel singers but keep the sound off, so it would look like the folks on TV were singing and dancing to the jazz... yes, i am that easily amused!

Hehe. Funny.

Quote:

I'll see you and raise you. I don't have a television.

I've been topped!

My parents have 4 aging TVs, and insisted that I take one. So, that's how I ended up with one anyways... even though I don't even have it plugged in.

sakigt · #14 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006, 05:30 AM

Hmmm. Ill play, but I have to watch the Cardiac Cats (the Jags) next Sunday.

But besides that, this should be fun

Bookie · #15 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006, 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PauletteGoddard

Too easy. Now, no Internet for a week, that's a challenge for me.

This woman is dangerous.

amberfocus · #16 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bookie

I'll see you and raise you. I don't have a television.

Same here! Been TV-free for... oh, what, four years now?

The only downside: I'm pathetically uninformed about any aspect of popular culture.

Oh well. It's not like I was "cooler" back when I had a TV, anyway.

best,
~mimi

veronak · #17 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006, 05:44 PM

Nope, I just can't do it...keep us posted on how you guys are doing. lol

PrincessPerky · #18 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 11:19 AM

I could do it (or could have if I had known back when you started) BUT

well we hardly ever watch anyway, and I have two veggietale christmas videos I like, one adult tradition (the one with the kidnapping and all the swearing...) Plus we got a DVD game thing we want to check out, oh and a stack of movies a foot tall we have never seen (gifts/handme downs)

sakigt · #19 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 11:22 AM

Whoops. Already messed up Day I

Started out well, listened to a new CD while doing homework. Then the boyfriend showed up and I made him dinner, so we watched reruns of Americas Funniest Home videos during it.

Im weak.

vishenda · #20 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 12:15 PM

I am not a tv person, so no problem with me, count me in!