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Heya, Eric in Oz -- just an anecdote. When I was immature and flighty in my youth and divorced my blameless first husband (no kids, amicable divorce, and anyone who says "it takes two to divorce" is voicing a hollow platitide -- all it takes is one silly determined female as I was at that time, and there is not a thing in this world that poor guy could have done to salvage the marriage because it was ME not him) ... ANYWAY ...

... from the time I was 18 to the time I was in my mid-20s, I had no TV; had TV and cable during that brief marriage of less than 3 years, but when I left him, didn't bother to buy a TV for myself. Some friends just coudln't stand it -- they could not at all understand or support my "decision" to not own a TV! So they kindly gave me one, an old black-and-white, and I gave in to temptation (I have a real weakness for 50s television) and got cable. So many of my hours were taken up watching instead of participating in life! So after a month, I gave the cable box back to the cable company and gave the TV to Goodwill, and was much, much happier, more productive, more creative, and became better read and better educated.