Exact same thing here - we dumped Dish 2 years ago and have not missed it ONE bit. We have an antenna which we used to use to watch some football, but even that doesn’t happen any longer. The rare times our TV goes on are usually for watching old movies (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Captain’s Courageous, John Wayne movies), an occasional kids’ movie, or streaming Francis Chan or David Platt sermons off Youtube.
Our five kids thought it was horrible we were dumping TV when we started... they don’t miss it one bit now! The value of family time, instead of zombietube time, is 1000x higer!
We dumped ours three years ago when the price jumped to 60.00 a month. Got a Roku and an antenna. We watch Judge Judy, Nova, Create tv and the morning news to see the weather.
Here’s a story for you. Last month, during the Olympics, we couldn’t get the online content unless we had the NBC package. SO my hubby popped cable into the house. 90.00! My kids sat one day and watched ‘their shows’ (Avatar and some other kiddie stuff). That was it, one day. They just weren’t that into it. The older one actually read, the younger one drew the characters on the screen.
Dropped it and won’t go back.
I have noticed with having music or radio, daily activities, conversations can continue on; but with TV all things must stop as attention is rivited to the TV. Maybe its me, cause I’m a visual person.