Finally cutting the cord. Cable goes off this weekend.

[Atman]

We called Charter to cancel two months ago. They cut our rate by $50/mo and added five premium channels, so we hung on. But now our rate is back up to $170/mo so we called them again and said we're done. Cable goes off on June 1st. Hulu and Netflix.

Now, the cell phones. Is there a worse carrier than AT&T?

[Katashi_itto]

1. Verision?

[one_voice]

2. Oh man you're a better person than me...

I fully admit I watch too much tv. I enjoy watching television.

I balance it with reading. I also spend time outside and of course online.

Good luck!

edited to add: I have At&T as my cell carrier. The rest of my family has Verizon. We all hate our carrier.

[Strelnikov_]

3. Damn, that's one of these every year!

[trublu992]

4. WHOO HOO join the movement!

[angstlessk]

5. We have ROKU which has many other channels

Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Premium...

I have Amazon premium because I order a bunch online (dog food, toilet paper, mixed greens..most other stuff, after price check and shipping charges)...and Amazon Premium offers free 2nd day shipping on MOST orders...plus free streaming videos

[tammywammy]

10. Roku owners here and I love it.

Also love the smithsonian and pbs channels.

[2naSalit]

6. Congrats!!!

Welcome to the TeeVeeless world!

[Shrike47]

7. We've never had cable and struggle along OK. Of course, we do get CBS with our rabbit ears.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Join the club!

I've been cable-free for over a year, and I don't miss it at all. There's plenty to watch on streaming and DVDs, not to mention that I can get PBS in HD over the air.

[Shandris]

9. Congratulations! About the only thing I missed was...

...the New Years Rockin' Eve Celebration or however you say it. And I -did- miss that. But other than that I haven't missed not having cable for one solitary second. Of course, a decent knowledge of Google-fu helps a bunch...

[Atman]

11. Charter is so bad, they couldn't even cut us off right.

They told us we'd be off midnight Saturday. Fine, as we were out of town, hiking all day in the Berkshires and enjoying a nice dinner is West Stockbridge. We got home at about 11:30. Cable was still on, so figured we'd fall asleep to the SNL re-run, fall asleep we did, quickly. I woke up to the noise of the SNL closing credits at 1:00. Hmm. Woke up Sunday morning and my wife turned on the tv to see if was still on. And it was. Kind of a treet, actually, because there is some great stuff on TV on Sunday evening (Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unkown is awesome, and this penultimate finale was about Thailand -- the coolest place we've ever visited). Watched it, expecting the tv to go off at any time. But it didn't. So after Parts Unknown read a little, sketched a little, tv still on in the background as I waited for John Oliver's awesome new show.

Woke up this morning and the cable was STILL on. Finally, about noon, without notice or a call, a technician pulls in to climb the ladder and physically disconnect the cable (lucky I was there and dog didn't bite his balls off). I found this rather odd, since Mrs. Smith from India never seems to have a problem shutting our cable on and off when we call for a tech issue, or on the rare occasion over the years where my wife and I played "Wait, I thought YOU paid the bill this month?"

Anyway, the screen is black. Internet only now. $130 more a month we're not paying to a worthless giant company for shitty service. I feel better already.