Happy 1 Year Cable-Free Anniversary!!!

Katie and I are busy patting ourselves on the back over here. While it may look odd to anyone who's looking in our windows, it feels good. In the past year we've been able to save just under $900, and save hours of useless surfing.

Two main things have kept us from heading back into the deep, dark pockets of the cable industry:

1) Hulu.com - they offer most network shows we watch, anytime we want. Our home theater PC allows us to watch Hulu on our HDTV with limited commercials.
2) Over the Air (OTA) HD channels - we also bought an outdoor HD antenna for watching our major local channels. We get ABC, NBC, CBS, 3 LPB stations, FOX and a few other stations for free (and did I mention in HD?).

As you can see, we still watch TV, we just do it more intelligently (at least that's the way I think of it). We have what the cable industry has yet to provide - a la carte programming. We pick and choose what we want to watch, and get to watch it when we want. It's a logical approach. I don't want to watch '1000 ways to die' on the Spike channel, or any of the 23 other hours of the garbage there, so why should I be paying for that channel? Now, I'm not. Someone else is going to have to subsidize Spike, MTV and We.

Anywho, good luck to anyone else wanting to drop cable and save some money, it's been good for Katie and Me We've made it a year longer than I thought we would without cable.