Sayonara Cable Man

When Christopher and I moved into our current apartment, we really wanted to lower our total monthly expenses and enjoy our apartment to its fullest. So far, so good. One bill we decided we could certainly live without was our cable bill. At our previous apartment, we paid for a bundle package (phone, TV, internet). As we rarely used our home phone compared to our cell phones and the TV packages included more than we needed, we decided it could go.



We've found that we don't even notice not having a home phone. If anything, we prefer it to having one. Solicitors are by law not supposed to call cell phones, whereas they can call home phones all day every day if they wanted. Although we tried to remove our number from call lists, we still managed to get daily solicitation calls. No bueno. The peace and quiet is worth not having a home phone for unlimited local calls.

As for cable, we did think we would miss it pretty terribly. We have quite a number of shows that we enjoy on a regular basis, and we like watching TV together just to spend time with each other without going anywhere. However, cutting the cord was really easy. Now, we set up subscriptions (no cost) on Hulu.com, and we watch all our TV on the internet. This works well for us because we simply use our TV as the computer monitor. In the case where the show we want to see isn't on Hulu, we can almost always find it on the network's website.

It is true that Hulu's quality is not as good as our HD cable used to be, but it is nothing that we cannot see past with a price tag of free.