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Paying $100 a month for cable!!
How did I get here??
I am the woman who did not watch TV for 1 year!!
Now I am paying for cable?
I will tell you, I got married.Everyone is not as against TV as I am so living in this house, I guess we will be watching TV.
Nuts!
My favorite channel is NY1, I can see the [...]
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Tags: 365dayswithoutatv, CABLE, cable discount, channel, married, news, NY1, one year, TV
26 Cents
That is how much I found going into my new experiment. Yes, my new experiment is to pick up all the change I see on the streets of New York City. 26 cents. I thought it would be more, but hey we are officially in a recession.
More on that later. For now I had to reach [...]
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Tags: crains, hulu, ONE YEAR WITHOUT TV, recession, TV SWITCH, tv.com, www.tv.com, youtube
New Experiment
So my new experiment is to pick up all the change I see on the streets of New York City for one year.
I shared this with a few friends, they chuckled. I shared this with my honey, he chuckled, then realizing that this could be embarrassing, asked me to not do it while we were [...]
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Tags: another year with tv, change on the street, experiment, new york city, one year, spare change
I made it one year without TV!!
I bet you fans were reading and watching to see if I would make it. Well I did and for me, it is just an indicator of how quickly time flies buy. I must admit, it has been fun, and I will go back to watching TV. I have had enough of [...]
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Tags: 10 months, 2009, ball drop, book deal, gossip girl, new year, new york city, times square
When I was a kid, TV was free!!
So today while watching TV, my sister tells me that her TV went blank into a test pattern of color bars. Shortly after, there was an announcement about the station running a test. This test was in relation to the upcoming TV switch to happen in February. For about 2 minutes there was [...]
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Tags: analog, CHANEL, SWITCH, TEST PATTERN, TV, TV CUT OFF, TV SWITCH FEBRUARY
Holidays without TV
So as we approach the holiday season I wonder what I will do without my:
Elvira Special
Yule Log
A Christmas Carol
March of the Wooden Soilders
and other random mess that usually comes on TV from OCt 31-Jan 1 of the new year.
Well, I will tell you:
Start my Kanji study in my Japanese lessons
Build a meaningful relationship with my [...]
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Tags: CHRISTMAS, ELVIRA, GARBAGE TV, HALLOWEEN, MONEY, no tv, THANKSGIVING, TV SWITCH, YULE LOG
What you won’t see on TV!
So just reading the news on line and wondering why all of my TV watching friends did not mention the humongous Washington Mutual bank bailout. Oh yes! WA MU was bought by JP Morgan Chase, unbeknown to you. While you were watching 2 hours of Grey’s Anatomy, or Dancing with the Stars at [...]
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Tags: bailout, bank bailout, Chase, dancing with the stars, grey's anatomy, TV, wamu, washington mutual
Getting closer to Digital TV
I hope by now that I have some loyal followers of this blog that have checked back in with me throughout the months to see if I would make it being TV free for one year. As the year winds down, now in the 9th month, there is an interesting occurrence to report.
People from [...]
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Tags: 9 months, analog, CABLE, calling, digital tv, door, dtv, no tv, services, smartalecky, stalking, TV, watch tv
Instead of watching TV
So since, I have gotten back into my sewing, things are good.
I make handbags, pillows, scarfs, and quilts from t-shirts.
Old tees that are damaged, or no longer fit, get new life with smartalecky. I have stock of my own, but I encourage people to send me their tees to reconstruct into usable items. I [...]
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Tags: boys to men, concert, etsy, handbags. sewing, pillow craft etsy recycle bag, reconstruct, RECYCLE, scarfs, sewing, smartalecky, t shirt, usable items
