That is an easy one!!! Become a monthly donor!!
I cancelled DirecTV several years ago. They begged me many times to come back. Every time they called I said no I wasn’t interested in everything “gay” on every channel all the time. They finally stopped calling me. I still get stuff in the mail from them though begging me to come back.
Invest in pork bellies?
As Will Rogers once said: “Buy land. They ain’t makin’ that stuff anymore.”
Roku and Amazon prime here.
Amazon Firestick..$40 gets you Internet access to lots of movies, documentaries etc.
Couple that with the extra $2,500 you’re saving yearly from Obamacare, and you can take a nice vacation.
Too bad, the Stanley cup games have been entertaining.
I look forward to the day, if it ever comes, where you can get cable channels a la carte. It’s crazy to think you have hundreds of channels which you help pay for which you never watch.
And not only that, but so much of the programming seems to be pushing homosexuality and liberalism in general, that it makes you think, why pay for all that %**T????
I would like to cut the cord too, but my wife has a hard enough time using the DirecTV remote as it is. The idea of trying to teach her how to operate any sort of streaming service is unthinkable.
Weed
If you still want to watch TV, Roku just released their new streaming stick this week (8x faster than 2014 model).
If you would rather reconnect with living, breathing humans, you may want to just take a sabbatical, instead. They also have these things called “books” that I’ve read about...
You can invest your savings in a hobby that you really love.
Then YOU can have fun rather than watching other people having fun. It makes a huge difference in your life.
Remember, if you spend the “savings” they aren’t savings
any more.
I have a Roku device and it’s nice. Still need internet service of course. Paperwork says at least 6 Mbps though I have more. There’s lots of free stuff but I subscribe to Sling TV and my daughter gave me Netflix for my birthday.
You could invest in new guns? More prepper supplies?
You might have to re-orient your antenna occassionally to get better reception for a particular channel, just like with the old rabbit-ears antennas.
Anyway, I got one of those digital antennas when I cut cable. Now I get dozens of over-the-air channels, all for free. You might get more or less, depending on where you live. I was amazed, as I didn't think there were so many over-the-air channels available. I get all the local stations, plus old movie and classic TV channels (Leave it to Beaver, etc.). And that's just the way I like it.
Plus, my blood pressure has improved now that I can no longer get, or watch, Bill O’Reilly.
The qualify of streaming has improved drastically in the last few years. Streaming is the wave of the future. It gives the viewer control over choice. Many streaming sources are absent advertising.
Amazon Prime has a pretty good listing of titles (movie & TV). In addition, one can ‘purchase’ shows and movies. Purchasing TV shows may be less costly than the 500 cable channels of nothing to watch.
Netflix is the #1 in streaming.
CBS has gone streaming, but someone posted in a related thread that they have not cut out commercials.
Hulu now has both pay with commercials and pay-more without (most) commercials.
Crackle has commercials every so-many minutes.
The problem I have found with ‘free’ streaming sources that put commercials in the stream is that the return-to-program stalls out. Try to restart at the last location, and it plays all of the commercials up to that point. I quit trying to watch Crackle and a few others for that very reason.
HBO, STARZ and SHOWTIME have been experimenting with streaming and going with web subscriptions without having to go through cable/satellite companies.
Also, I keep forgetting that Youtube has a lot of TV series and movies.
Ironic that Youtube, a Google service, has one of the worst location/search capacities on the Internet.
Netflix and Amazon Prime listings are available at:
http://instantwatcher.com
I have not found a good listings website for Youtube.