K and I decided to give up television a couple of months back and now our household is television free.Yay!. Basically, we concluded that television was very bad for us. Here are a couple of reasons why.

1.Crazy cable fees
Doing away with cable television saves us $80 a month. Imagine what you could do with an extra $960 or so a year? Perhaps vacation, savings for a rainy day, credit card bill etc.

2.Recking havoc on our health
Having a love affair with your television means leading a very sedentary life, plopped on that evil couch, eyes and mind glued to the tube. So not only is the mind being filled with junk but because it is pre-occupied with the junk, we end up not paying attention to what we are putting in our mouths. Essentially, not only are we getting obese from no exercise but a poor diet resulting from not paying attention to what we are eating. This not only accentuates our waist size but our health care costs as well and I can attest to this!

3.Unneccessary spending
Since I ended my television addiction, I have noticed a substantial decline in my need to buy stuff. I can attribute my need to buy things that I don’t really need to all those commercials constantly flowing out of the tube in search of victims like “little ol’ addicted moi”. Commercials are there to sell you stuff and trust me, I don’t really know how they do it – psychologically perhaps – but it works!

4.No time for anything else
Having the tube on all the time means no time for other more important things that you could better spend your time doing. E.g household chores, preparing a healthy meal, reading etc

5.No quality time for loved ones
It is impossible to have any meaningful interaction between loved ones when the television is running. Quality time is essential to good relationships. So turn off the tube, play a game of cards or talk with your loved ones.

I am pretty sure there is more but these were enough for us to call it quits!