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My Hulu price is going up by $1.00. I think I am OK with that.
Currently, I pay $18.98 a month on TV, soon to be $19.98. I subscribe to Hulu with No Ads ($11.99) and Discovery Plus (Ad-Free $6.99). They provide more than enough TV entertainment for me. I get free local news from Pluto, which I rarely watch anyway. Basically, I gave up watching NASCAR, NBA, and some others.
I don’t live in a big city, so the antenna won’t pick up any channels.
My philosophy is simple. If I enjoy basketball very much, then I will have no problem paying extra to watch it. If I have a girlfriend who loves to watch the WE channel? then I will subscribe to it. It’s a simple rule.
For now, I save roughly $720 a year ($60/m) by not subscribing to a big TV package. Also, I hate TV service providers so much. I refuse to give them the pleasure. Screw them. Screw all of them. I will keep $720 and skip the Super Bowl.
After cutting cable, I quickly got used to having fewer channels. It’s OK if I don’t have every channel under the Sun.
I guess I am OK paying $20 a month for TV. $0.67 a day sounds somewhat reasonable. Still, that’s $240 a year. One thousand dollars every four years.
If I become very rich, after taking care of my retirement, I will buy a house with a three-car garage. Then I will buy a Porsche. After that, I will subscribe to a full package cable TV.
It’s fascinating that my financial priority is shifting. When I was poor, I had NO~~ problem paying $60.00+/month on cable TV. Now that I have more money, I feel sick to my stomach paying more than $30/m for TV. There must be a scientific (psychological?) explanation for this. I don’t think I’m cheap or stingy. I just bought a cashmere Berluti winter coat. Cheap people don’t wear Berluti coats.
The question I have is what do you pay a month for internet? I have thought of also cutting the cord, but then the internet cost gets really jacked up.
Yes, the cost of the Internet comes into the factor. And the Internet is even more monopolized.
I pay $87.98/m for the internet & phone (landline). So, with my 2 TV subscriptions, I pay a total of $107.96 for the Internet, TV, & the Phone.
I cut the cable when they would not lower my TV/Internet/Phone package to under $160. The cheapest Internet/TV/Phone package is about $170.00 in my area.
I believe there is a “local channels only” package which is around $25 (?). But, I don’t want that.
So, compared to the cheapest Spectrum package, I am currently saving roughly $60 Mo by separating the Internet & TV.