So far, so good

So far so good on kicking cable to the curb.

I must say, we are not totally without television. We have NetFlix shown on media players. I thought that live would be rough. Not so much.

The kids have awesome shows to watch. Educational as well as movies and shows that I grew up with. I am really enjoying it.

SD and I have watched the entire first season of Prison Break, which is pretty suspenseful.

So on to how we did it....

We bought media players. They are just what they say. MEDIA+PLAYER= Plays your media. Movies, photos and videos that you have made on your camcorder.

The first one that we bought was a Sony Media Player. I happen to like this one the best because it allows for so much more. Hulu Plus and Netflix with a couple other programs I have never heard of. Pretty simple to use and of course I like that.

We recently got a WDTV Live Plus this is basically the exact same thing. Has Netflix, no Hulu Plus but it does have Facebook, Pandora, some podcasts and maybe a few other built in programs. Only draw back about this one is it does not have WIFI built in, we had to buy an adaptor for that.

Both of these have remote apps for our Android phones :) Major plus with children's hands around who take them :)

Overall I am very happy with my decision to not to pay the cable company anymore money then I already do for internet :) It was a good decision and much less junk on my tv :)

May 1st Doom's Day.... Kinda

Over the last year I have been toying with the idea of 86ing the cable company. We have cox and in my opinion we pay way to much for what it is. We already got rid of our home phone..... I would get rid of internet but my husband really loves it. He is a gamer :)

So as of May 1st we will have about 20 basic cable channels. This is just basically so we can have the basic channels and PBS. I have NetFlix and so far that seems to have better educational shows then the cable we were paying for.

I called in to Cox to tell them the news. Of course the lady wants to give me some speech on how we really are not paying that much and for just $50 I can have all the other channels. We will see but I doubt it. Seriously, it is all trash really. So once I tell her this is my finial decision she wants to inform me that I have to pay $20 for them to put a cap on my cable line.

AYFKM?! No. I am not paying that. The lady put he on hold came back and told me that she was waving the fee.... That is good. Cause I am not paying it. I informed her that was a crap shoot and wrong of Cox to do. So if you try to do what I am doing.... Do not pay that fee, There is no need. You are not asking for them to come out. WTF. They try to get any amount of money from you they can!


So join me on our journey without cable. We are hoping to get our tv shows through Hulu and Netflix. I will come up with more ideas for the kids but as for now I think we are covered. Since we have school agaed kids, I think we are good :)