We don't use Amazon Prime either. We had the same deal for awhile when we bought Kindle Fires for the family. We use Amazon now to get the shows that are tough to find on the Free Internet. Our main purchase from them is the Walking Dead. You can get a fairly good digital download for about 3 bucks an Episode.
And when you figure the cost of Cable/Sat dish a month you can buy lots of episodes in a single month and still be less than half of an average monthly bill for either.
Our costs for TV used to exceed 100 bucks a month.
Now we spend less than 25 bucks a month on average which includes the cost of Netflix and any digital downloads we get from Amazon. Best part is most of what we watch has NO COMMERCIALS!
I find that as I age, I don’t care if I am watching Season 3 while Season 4 is running. We have so many series we are catching up on, it can take us 6 months to get through them and by then, the next season is available. Same on Hulu Free: I’ll get busy and not be able to watch for a couple of weeks and then, there are 2-3 episodes (of 2 shows) available that I haven’t seen and since I usually can only watch 1/day, I rarely even get caught up. Which is fine. My memory is still good enough that I can recall where things are at in the show.
With BookBub and various alerts from forums and even from Amazon itself, we get most ebooks free or for .99. We like genre books and with all the indies out there, there is rarely a shortage of mind candy. I used to spend $60/month or more at the bookstore and then I began using Amazon for the 4-for-the-price-of-3 paperbacks and spent $25-$30/month. Now, I _may_ spend $10/month and that is only if I indulge in an *expensive* $6 download, which is rare. I really like that I can get a free download of a book I read in paper when the sequel comes out. I can refresh my memory and often, by the time I skim the 1st one, the sequel is running a promotion.