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In reply to the discussion: Regarding MSNBC [View all]Hulk
(6,699 posts)I agree that it would be great to just drop cable. It pretty much is a waste. Any movies I want to watch I can grab out of my Roku box or subscribe to Netflix...or just forget the tube altogether.
Unfortunately my wife can't live without it. She is from Mexico, and she enjoys the "tele-novelas" so much (Spanish soaps). I'd LOVE to cut it out. I remember traveling to Germany back in the late 60's and hearing that they had to pay a "tax" for radio and TV, and I thought "how terrible". Look at me now!
Someday...someday we'll do without. Wasting money, and we are living in central Mexico now for the next few months, and cable/internet costs us around $350 pesos a month...about $28-9. We are getting so ripped off in the States..but we just lap it up and go on our merry way.
So much of what we think we can't live without, we grew up WITHOUT, and certainly can live without.