Man, When I Cut the Cord, I CUT It!
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86575)
United States
May 21, 2018 9:35am CST
Last July I decided that cable television wasn't worth $160 of my money, given how precious little TV I watch. I cancelled my cable and, for $20, got a subscription to MLB (where I can watch all the baseball games I want [save for live Cincinnati Reds game, as they're the "local market team," but as poorly as they play who WANTS to watch them live?]), and went on my merry way.
Something that I didn't notice, though, was just how deeply that cut went when I "cut the cord" to cable.
Over the weekend I was in a hotel in Cincinnati for our golf tournament. I didn't turn the TV on once. I listened to the Cubs/Reds game on the MLB app and watched a little bit of another one before falling asleep (that's what I usually do at home), but I didn't even bother to see what channels were available.
When I cut it, I really cut it!
If it's the deepest it's the only one you need: 
Linda Ronstadt sang this version of the cat steven's song (1973)
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@allen0187 (59648)
• Philippines
22 May 18
First off, love the song!
Been without cable for almost four years now. Longer if I count the first time I cut cable, that's another two years. I hardly watch any television nowadays.
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@rebelann (117199)
• El Paso, Texas
15 Jul 20
I've done a lot of binge watching since I started streaming @allen0187 but I'm running out of good shows that I'd want to stream, I guess its time to rerun some of the ones I streamed a couple years ago.
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
21 May 18
I have been thinking of cutting my cable bill too. It's ridiculous what they charge
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@Dena91 (17029)
• United States
21 May 18
Your cut was a bit deeper than ours. We dropped directv after AT&T bought them because we knew our bill would go up and it did. We bought a ROKU and over the air antenna. The only thing that we pay monthly for is the slingtv app which are live channels. We went from $148.00/month to $23.00/ month. We are so much happier now.
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@everwonderwhy (7355)
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21 May 18
No TV since 1996. I don't know how we survived.
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@rebelann (117199)
• El Paso, Texas
13 Jul 20
I only have whats called basic cable, there are no channels but it lets me steam Netflix or Amazon or Youtube or Hulu etc etc and I love it. I pay $65 a month for internet and basic cable which is wonderful and IF I want I could subscribe to all those streaming services but I only have 1 or 2 at a time which usually costs me less than $20 a month. I've been doing this since 1999.
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