I have been without TV for a week now

[JitterbugPerfume]

and I can not believe the music I have listened to (Beethovens ,sonota #8 Pathetique) is playing right now . It is hearbreakingly beautiful. Soon another favorite Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini .

I have cleaned the kitchen cabinets and worked in the garden

I have read EVERY new post in Breaking News

I have enjoyed the hell out of the NO TV week

I just might make it a habit

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. woo, woo

Congratulations! KILL YOUR TELEVISIONS!

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. It died a natural death

and GOOD RIDDANCE I had bad withdrawls the first couple of days but now I am symptom free

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Yeah, get rid of it.

I have a TV, and a VCR, but only so I can watch my old episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I even disconnected my ancient antenna, so I wouldn't even be able to ACCIDENTALLY pick up a TV station.

Nothing can be learned from the television. It is a forum for corporate interests peddling their wares, and nothing else. Turning it off is the first step towards true happiness.....

[Az]

3. To recharge your heart

Listen to the ninth. Few works give me hope for the human race like the Choral movement of the ninth. Also listen to Carmina Burana by Orff. Another stunner.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. I love the ninth also

I can't imagine life without Beethoven

[leftist_rebel1569]

5. I only watch 2 hours of TV a week now

on Sunday Night. Much better than how much I used to be watching...

[catmandu57]

6. I was going to ask if you had cleaned

the house yet.

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. yes I have !!!!

it is COMPANY READY

amazing what you can do when you are not zoned out by the evil TV


by the way, Directv can kiss my a@@ too

[Interrobang]

13. How do you do it?

I don't even own a tv, and I've found that the amount of things clamouring for their share of my oh-so-copious amount of free time (ha!) has expanded to overfill the available space. Ergo, my apartment is a terrible mess! Then again, in the absence of television, I have 2000 books, two stories I'm writing, a language to study, math lessons to take, workouts to do, cooking to be done, to sew garb for Pennsic, painting that I want to do, and various and sundry other things... If I watched tv, I wouldn't get ANYTHING done! :)

[mitchum]

9. Good for you!

And it really does get easier. I'm a year and a half into TV recovery (And I grew up in a house where there literally was a TV in every room-even the bathrooms)

[TNDemo]

10. Ah, the Pathetique.

My son memorized all three movements for his piano recital a couple of years ago and last week played the second movement for my mother's funeral. He and his girlfriend went to see the symphony do Beethoven's 9th a couple of nights ago and they really liked it. I must check that out.

Have you cut back on any internet time? I think that sucks more of my time than the TV but I haven't done anything about that... Kinda stuck to it because of work.

[StaggerLee]

11. YES!

I have been cableless for just over a year now. I can still get the local channels but I usually don't bother. (I did check in to PBS back during the "war"

I can get so much more done anymore.

Marcos-

[tridim]

12. Dumped my cable a few months ago

I went from having the TV on almost all day, to about an hour a day. I now only watch The Simpsons and The Daily Show (and Nightline occasionally). Luckily I still get Comedy Central because my cable modem bandwidth is embedded on that channel.

Cable SUCKS!

[Kenneth ken]

14. warning to you

Having not owned a tv for about 10 years, I find that if I go to visit people who have tv, and have it on pretty much all the time; if the conversation lags, and the tv is on, it sucks my attention to it,
The colors continually flashing, and the sound continuously emanating, are pretty insistent.

People who have tv on constantly seem more able to tune it out; but I always find it a very difficult thing to do.

[ZenLefty]

15. Exactly one month without a TV here

One whole month. June 9 was the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals, and we haven't turned the tube on since.

[buddhamama]

16. it's good for you

or can be, to leave the world of tv behind even if it is only for a couple of days.

when i gave up tv,over five yrs ago,i came to the realization i actually liked to cook/bake. before then i thought i didn't like cooking but in reality i saw cooking dinner,etc, as a inconvience that took away from my tv time. i'd come home from work turn on the tv and when dinner time came i'd want to stay glued to it.

i'm happy to say those days are over.