Posted in Simple Living

We are working on becoming more simple in the way we live.  It started years ago but we are more and more serious about in recent days.  We have been purging and I just bought file boxes and am organizing my desk area in the midst of working on school.  I am tired of not finding things when I need them. 

One of the ways we are thinking about cutting back is getting rid of cable.  We have the most basic local cable but we find that we don't even watch it most of the time.  Just about anything we could want to watch can be rented from Netflix now anyway and we can watch movies at the drop of a pin on our internet account. 

We have an abundance of other sources for news and information that, I feel, are more accurate than the daily television drivel.  My perspective is so different when I don't watch the nightly news and such.  There are images that we are finding it harder and harder to shield our children from quickly enough on television and the shows we used to enjoy are pushing the limits way too much. 

We want to be outside more, read more books and playing games more and this is one way to take away the distractions of the lure of that boob tube. 

The computer has been controlled for me more and I would still like to take more time away from it but for now the television is the first thing to go.  I know August is the month that Nancy DeMoss declares TV free month.  We did this last year and it was wonderful.  So we will be doing it permanently at the end of this pay cycle. 

I am thinking it won't be a hard transition away from cable and television in general.  We cannot get channels without cable so that would mean NO television at all.  Not even sports...  we can do this and we could use the money savings everywhere we can find it. 

We are still working on this for the rest of the year.

Use it up
Wear it out
Make it do
Do without - for our television this month

and we have added... organize it, give it away or throw it away, too

If you are interested in knowing more about it you can have a look at Sallie's site - A Gracious Home for more information on Celebrating a Year of Abundance.