I’m pretty much a Luddite when it comes to technology, especially phones and TV. I have paid for the bundle of cable, internet & phone for a couple decades. I would switch back and forth from Comcast to Verizon Fios whenever they would offer a two year special price. Meanwhile, my kids were signing up for streaming services and getting Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO and Hulu.
We stopped using our land line phone years ago. I just realized I could watch all the stations we were getting from Verizon Fios on my son’s Hulu account. I called Verizon yesterday and cancelled my TV and phone service. My monthly bill will go from $176 to $52. I love saving money.
1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package?
2. If not, what have you switched to?
3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines?
4. How much do you pay per month for internet, TV and phone?
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1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package? NO
2. If not, what have you switched to? Just Internet
3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines? NA
4. How much do you pay per month for internet, TV and phone? 100.00 internet 65.00 cell phone
I ocassionaly rent movies from Amazon or watch shows on prime, maybe once per week.
I like watching the first amendment audit Youtube videos, it’s a great way to see how far we are fucked in the US.
I use my land line to make calls that could result in annoying telemarketing (because I never answer it)
I use it for my regularly scheduled work conference calls (because it has a nice speaker)
I also use it to locate my cell – regrettably more often than I would like these days
that’s it.
1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package? Yes. Use land line for work which has unlimited long distance, have a basic TV package for a net $5 discount on unlimited internet (also needed for work), but don’t watch TV. Work pays for mobile phone; will switch to a dumb flip phone when I retire. Still miss my old Nokia.
2. If not, what have you switched to? Mostly old DVDs and rips of old TV shows/movies on a dumb TV, and rarely watch anything after the year 2000. The Matrix got it right. Our civilization peaked around 1999 (at least entertainment-wise). Also have a good over the air antenna that picks up ~20 channels, but rarely watch. Once you get used to watching programs without ads, the constant lawyer ads “did you use XXX product? you may be entitled to compensation…” get tiresome real quick.
3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines? No. Have a land line for work, and because the RCMP still need a warrant to listen to it. We already know here in Canada the police and RCMP use Stingray hardware to listen to mobile phone traffic without a warrant. I be not nobody, but that doesn’t mean the authorities should be able eavesdrop on me anytime they feel like it.
4. How much do you pay per month for internet, TV and phone? $125, $25, $50. We get screwed here in Canada on internet and mobile phone costs compared to the US. Fortunately work pays for my mobile phone.
What am I watching?
turbotax taking it’s sweet f-ing time to install
If you have and/or pay or subscribe to cable or facebook or Netflix or google, etc. you are funding and contributing to your own destruction. Ditto for ‘smartphones’ and other tracking devices.
https://www.androidcentral.com/yes-your-phone-tracks-your-every-move-and-there-nothing-you-can-do-about-it
https://www.fleetminder.com.au/gps-tracker/remotely-disable-car-tracker/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-repo-man-can-remotely-shut-off-your-car-engine/
https://rense.com/general69/mass.htm
I don’t watch TV at all – never been on facebook,twitter blah blah don’t use google I’ll put in a video now and then to watch w/ the kiddies that’s it
as I said before – I live in a cave — my only amusement these days is needling you a little bit now and then : _)
by the way – i watched that awesome line dance video you posted. But when I called the number, the only ass that I got was someone soliciting for donations to the Bidrump re-election campaign.
If needling me gives you joy then have at it….:)
you’re such a tease
Based on that advice I should stop paying taxes too. What contributes more to my own destruction – Government or Netflix?
I’ve always said… the first and easiest way to fight is to refuse to give consent (voting)
the second one – which will not be bloodless- is to quit filing your taxes (most likely you’ve already paid them) filing just gets some of it back.
I however, always click on your social media links…. they’re just too rich to pass up.
Netflix is a part of government propaganda and paying taxes feeds the beast. If you want to watch programming that glorifies homosexuality and pedophilia, Netflix is great. Remember “Cuties”?
You are feeding the beast unless you completely drop out and even then….they’ll hunt you down if you hide too well.
Who is John Galt?
If you’ve gone John Galt why are using the internet? You know they can track your IP address. Ask Stucky about the Chatham police.
Unless you go completely dark, you’re a hypocrite.
The internet is filled with porn, pedophilia, homosexuality, and a million other perversions. By paying your internet bill you are feeding that beast too.
See how that works when you judge how others choose to live their lives.
MyG- There is to be no cell phone, internet, or even a vehicle with any tracking capability used to come and go at the gulch. If I go deep, you couldn’t find me…..Bea Galt 🙂
The only way we cease to feed the beast is to go Galt. Seriously go Galt and…..for the vast, supermajority, that isn’t possible. I can’t go completely Galt, I have to live in this society but I can minimize my attachments. My comments were directed to the FACT that all the cable tv, phones, etc. have become tools to manipulate, coerce and control. We can discuss costs and service providers and all the rest but should neve lose sight of just what these amusements and ‘conveniences’ are actually doing in our lives.
Are you being so touchy because you like watching Netflix? Did I touch a nerve by stating the truth? Am I wrong in stating that we are fueling our own destruction by using the very devices and programs that are used to control, manipulate, brainwash and mold public opinion and thought? I never said I didn’t use the internet, I would think someone with a modicum of intelligence would grasp that fact since I’m….are you ready…posting on the internet.
Not touchy in the least. I don’t give a flying fuck what you think.
As expected, you take the offensive because I pointed out your hypocrisy.
The internet is also a device that can spew degrading, disgusting things which can control, manipulate, brainwash, and mold opinions.
Do you pay a corporation for your internet service? What is the difference between your internet provider and Netflix when it comes to the degradation of our society.
You really need to go full Gault and walk your talk.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Matthew 7:3
Oh please, you are twisting what I wrote because, evidently, you need to pick a fight. Am I wrong in what I wrote? Address that issue instead of attacking me. I never said I didn’t use the internet, I assumed you and the others were intelligent enough to see that, I factually stated that we were, are and do feed the beast when we use the tools they provide. If that bothers you then you have a problem, not me.
I must have a problem. Thanks for pointing that out.
By the way, if you think that was an attack, you wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes on TBP in the days of Smokey and AWD.
Whatever.
A YUGE true dat…
Most all of us are to used to this cushy life. To be completely cut off and go back to caveman status likely will not happen.Wife and I are both old and handicapped and wouldn’t make two weeks on our own. We have the internet (obviously) a land line (security system, so necessary) and the wife has a trac phone in case we get stranded out in the Northern winters. I would like to get rid of those things but we are spoiled (addicted). No longer than we have yet to live before seeing our Redeemer we will just toddle along with our present plan. My line in the sand is our property line. Step inside that with malice aforethought and you will need a doctor or the coroner.
it’s not the technology… it’s the way that it is used to drive the culture and the way that the culture abuses it. I’ll take a risk here…
I think that was mgm’s point
it’s not the technology… it’s the way that it is used to drive the culture and the way that the culture abuses it. I’ll take a risk here…
I think that was mgm’s point
That was exactly my point…
I know
One quick look:
Beautiful main picture checking all wokeness boxes, zero information. Scroll down a bit and only short marketing-babble blurbs, for the 10 sec attention-span average consumer.
Nah, sorry, I look somewhere else.
Check out his videos on LBRY or Odysee.com- RobBraxmanTech. They are excellent.
A lot of great info brax, he also sells degoogled phones, routers etc… There is no complete way to use tech without being tracked and a database built on you. The ONLY way to avoid a profile build is to not use ANY tech, CC’s or loyalty cards, and use cash or barter for your needs.
Bottom line, unless you are offgrid completely… then a profile is being built on your every move which they can, and do build, you leave a footprint.
I’m on the internet because that lazy fucking admin on The Dumpster Fire website doesn’t send out pamphlets in the mail…
Got your back Mygirl😎
Gracias. Evidently someone had their Wheaties pissed in and wanted to start a shit fling, too early in the day for that. This was coming from the guy who posts quotes like this….
“If you can’t stand a little sacrifice and you can’t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we’re never going to straighten this country out.”
— Ross Perot
…A guy who seems incapable of appreciating the irony dripping from his stating that he wasn’t going to give up the pleasures of the internet and Netflix and anyone pointing out that the internet, etc. were tools used against the users… why, they were heretics and hypocrites.
1. Put your phone in a Faraday cage type of bag…
2. Good luck in an older car
3. Don’t borrow money or buy a brand new car, or tell the Repo man you have a gun..,.
We gave up our landline in 2014 during the midterm election when calls would start coming in from 1730 to 1930 each day. I know it is hard to believe, but politicians are exempt from the do not call registry.
We finally got high speed internet in the boondocks last year, cut the $180 satellite feed and are strictly streaming our entertainment 2 cell phones run about $100 and unlimited internet is $90.
Another huge advantage of cell phones is the freedom from most spam calls, and the ability to see them without answering…
There is a feature that sends unknown callers directly to voice mail.
My voice mail says “If you know me, leave a message. If you don’t know me, don’t bother.
Switched to just internet, however it is very high speed for downloading movies etc.
No cable tv or land line phones. Just antenna tv and fire stick (free hundreds channels).
High speed internet and phone $90 per month.
1-no
2-internet, cell phone
3-yes
4-$100
1. NO
2. Internet
3. YES
4. $39 for internet ($78 total, pay for my folks also), tracfone which works out to about $10/mo
5. Amazon Prime only, which includes Sirius XM which I have on a lot and Youtube for the huge selection of DIY videos.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1288476842?t=00h12m01s
This is an a very detailed look at the exchange between Doogie Howser, National Security Asshole, and an old school reporter who forgot you aren’t allowed to question Doogie or any of the other officials deemed to be our “betters.”
Mr. Thistle, I’m watching the science and the signs. They are beginning to merge.
The first half of this ten-minute clip presents parents who volunteered their children for vaccination tests, at ten minutes, JC addresses the briefing about Russian “schemes” to create false flag propaganda and he does a really great job of pointing out what should be obvious to all and is only visible to a few. The Biden Administration thinks it can tell us lies and call it declassified information through this idiot.
Finally killed the cable to save some bucks. Use Netflix, HBO, etc. But, just found out that the “Free TV using an antenna” story has gotten a whole lot better. Forget about putting that giant thing on your roof, now you get something a lot smaller (same form factor as an iPad, basically). And your smart TV (Roku, for me) will scan for all the local channels plus a few hundred more “from the Internet”. Crazy. I swear there’s one channel that just runs Baywatch all day.
Firestick for a few years now. Works awesome
1, no
2, didnt switch ‘to’ anything. never had a tv or such a package.
we do have a phone and ‘net access, which we’d like to eventually get rid of as well.
3, never had cable tv, but do have a landline phone.
4, net/phone together is around EUR 35 /month . an additional approx. 20/month goes to topping up two prepaid mobile phones. Yes, this is already pushing the limits of what we’re comfortable paying and looking to cut back on something more in there.
I have more TV to watch than is humanly possible on the internet. Internet and landline cost is $90 per month.
I do not pay for any subscription channels like NetFlix.
“1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package?”
Where did you get the idea that I ever had it? Calling it “traditional” suggests you are in a middling age bracket.
“2. If not, what have you switched to?”
N/A. See above. I have home Internet, got broadband circa 1999, and a prepaid cell phone without a data plan. I’m home based, so I access the net on the cell phone via WiFi, as well as the servers on my LAN (a Ubiquiti UniFi rig. I’ve recently built two WiFi 6 desktops and acquired a WiFi 6 TV, so I guess it’s time to update at least the main Wireless Access Point ).
“3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines?”
Decades ago. The very last thing I wanted to watch on cable (A&E’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries) was canceled in 2002 and replaced with some cheap to produce, but utterly stupid, reality show.
If any of your kids are still at home I am older than you. Hell, my kids might be older than you. My first computer was an IMB 360/60 (well, OK, technically I was just a user and it belonged to Cornell).
Dumped landline years ago. Email negates fax machine. T mobile 55 plus for 2 phones unlimited at $60/mo taxes and fees included. Just dumped xfinity at $82/MO to bundle t mobile internet. $40/mo taxes and fees included. So $100/mo for both. Roku tv and Google dongle from t mobile gives us more than we can watch. Indoor antenna allows us to watch marxist mainstream but we don’t.
No TV, No phone but ground line. Use the library for entertainment. Internet $50, phone a bit less
1. Never had bundled package.
2. Just Internet since 2013
3. Never had cable tv, cancelled DirecTV late 2013; had cancelled landline in 2007.
Had Amazon Prime for a while, cancelled after 2.5 years when almost all movies (no matter how old) became PPV. Never did Netflix.
Now (re-)watch about 1 BluRay per month, only about two per year of them fairly recent movies. Mostly buy them used on eBay.
4. Currently:
Internet (FTTH 1000MBit/s symmetric, 1 TB/month limit) EUR 62.- ($70)
Prepaid mobile (unlimited talk&texts incl. to neighbor countries, 5 GB/month data with leftovers accumulating) EUR 24.- ($27)
I pulled the cable plug in about 1990, killed my TV as well. My internet bill is $55/month.
My phone is a pay in advance deal, $50/month and I got it because I would stream Pandora on a bunch of cross country drives. Next phone, I’m going back to a TracPhone, I hardly use this thing.
I have Prime and will occasionally rent a movie. I checked out Reacher last night, fucking stupid, made the Tom Cruise version looked buyable. At least the dude was huge.
I love reading, am currently reading a bunch of WW11 bios and war stories. Holy crap, it was a close for a while. Rommel was a hell of a general and Nimitz set the stage to win the war in the Pacific @ Midway. And that could have gone to the Japs but for the hand of God.
Who won?
It was never close. The Soviet Union produced 10,000 tanks each year of WW2 (the production facilities and mines had been built years earlier.) Unless they had ran out of fighting-age men before they learned how to use them tanks in battle (after Stalin had killed off most of their officer corps a few years beforehand), or the Germans had managed to bomb and destroy their production facilities 1000+ miles behind [=east of] Moscow, the outcome was a given.
Same in the Pacific theater, only on planes and carriers production.
Never close?
Whatevs
Did you look up how many tanks ze Germans produced?
” . . . am currently reading a bunch of WW11 bios and war stories.”
I was born as the last Civil War vets died. I lived to see the last WWI vets die. A few years ago I watched as trucks pulled up to my neighbor’s house who had run PT boats in the South Pacific and started emptying it out.
The youngest WWII vet is now 93-94 years old. These were people who you met just walking down the street when I were a wee lad, and I may well live to see the last of them die and remove WWII from living memory, something I never even thought of as a possibility in my youth.
we will likely live to see (and probably be) WW3 vets all over the place.
Once you’ve got your vitamin I laid in, it might be wise to start laying in some potassium iodate.
I’ll be back, when the war is over . . . an hour and a half from nooooow.
ZERO cost here in the apartment in Reno.
All the new big screen TV sets come preloaded with Roku installed in the cost.
WiFi off the apartment is free.
Happiest day of my life was cancelling the grifters at Verizon for their $100 / month, that started at $50.
For all that live in detached housing do a search for some WiFi you can plug into.
No TV other than a DVD player and a dumb TV. Either DVDs that we own or that we borrow from the library.
No landline. Tello cell phone for calling and texting. No phone data. $8 per month.
Slowest internet I can find. $39.99 per month flipping promotional rate between my husband and me back and forth.
Also, no Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp. I do use Skype though to see Grandparents on the screen once a month.
I am in the sticks and have no choice but internet/phone to my apartment by landline but the internet then is routed by wifi to my chromebook. I pulled the plug on microhard foggy windows 7 thru 10 or whatever. Never again will they send me to the ER.
I unplugged the free phone because I don’t speak nigerian and pay for a straight talk cell phone. the landline and straight talk cost me 80 bucks a month. 45.00 and 35.00 respectively and I no longer send my BP into the stratosphere dealing with windows.
Wow – really? Watching? Sitting inactive being fed programming?
I have a friend who has invited me to events and not really understood when I told him that isn’t stuff I watch other people do, it’s stuff I do.
When I noted that he wasn’t really into football, he was into watching TV, he was not amused.
Looking at the responses it seems there are a LOT of options in non-rural areas. Our land-lines were ripped up years ago (AT&T gave up on them) and cell phone service is 2 bars of 3g on a good day at the top of a hill. Remaining options are limited and usually require a dish on the roof. (Also funny that the most vile companies who are trashed the most here at TBP are also the most heavily supported [Amazon, Google, T-Mobile, etc]
out here in the boondocks in greece there is only one real option for telecomms. the service is mediocre and the prices are, relative to the level of poverty here, exorbitant, but thats what it is.
this whole shit show is probably not gonna hold together so much longer that it really matters anyway!
I haven’t watched any network TV since I moved to Ecuador in 2012.
No cable, no landline. Internet and phone only. No time to watch tv anyway.
1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package? NO
2. If not, what have you switched to? Amazon 4K Firestick (Hardware) with the following apps:
Pluto (Free), KlowdTV (Free), kept Netflix (I should cancel them), Amazon Video & Cinema app
3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines? Yes. No more land line and no more satellite or cable TV service. Everything is internet streaming.
4. How much do you pay per month for internet, TV and phone? $59 for 200 MB fiber internet. VoIP line is Google Voice (free) with a one time fee of $50 for an Obitalk device that is setup to work with Google Voice.
To learn more about cord cutting and some free stuff out there (like Cinema) subscribe to Troypoint for a weekly email with lots of good tips and ‘how to’s’.
https://troypoint.com/
1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package? No.
2. If not, what have you switched to? Spectrum Internet only
3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines? yes; no cable since 2000 and landline since 2015
4. How much do you pay per month for internet, TV and phone? $90 for Internet only
Spectrum provides good Internet service. We don’t watch wired television nor do we stream. Almost everything on television is absolute crap. We do use DVD’s. TV shows. Movies. The older the better is generally the rule. I want to own my media, so physical media is always our choice.
1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package? NO. I used to have a combined Internet/Cable TV package, with AT&T land line phone. 3 or 4 years ago I got rid of the TV portion of the Cable and the AT&T land line service.
2. If not, what have you switched to?
For TV, I continue to experiment with various streaming content, using my PC and/or my Roku device. At this point, I still have basic Netflix and one minor streaming service . I used to watch Amazon Prime, but I cut the cord completely with Amazon a year ago, and don’t patronize them at all any more–I no longer want to patronize this company.
For phone service, I got a cheap add-on to my Cable package to replace the old AT&T land line. Still have our two cell phones in the house also.
3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines? (See above)
4. How much do you pay per month for internet, TV and phone? The (broadband) cable internet + land line phone package combined is about $90/mo. here in CA. Cell service for the two lines combined (unlimited talk & text + 1 GB data) is $45/mo. I pay $9/mo for Netflix and $5/mo for one other minor channel, that’s it!
Can only take so much of the’American picker’/’Pawn Star’ channel…And the ‘Science’ channel Has been overun with cock-capped ‘Science Communicators’ and the ever present TRANNY
The National Geographic channel….Unbelievable
1. Do you still have the traditional bundled (TV, internet, phone) package?
No. Never did since in rural Pennsyltucky such things are unavailable. The local cable provider does offer very good internet at a reasonable price vs shitty DSL. When I originally called to dump everything and go cable internet-only they told me it would take about a month to get here. I called a week later and requested TV plus internet and they were here that week. I have since gotten rid of their TV offering.
2. If not, what have you switched to?
Our TV’s have ROKU built in. We have various apps but the majority is 25 channels or less on DirecTV streaming. Looking at options to ditch that as well. I’m not as hard core as some on here. There are times I do want to sit down to watch sportsball and turn off my brain but it isn’t something that happens every day for hours.
My wife and I will sometimes watch something together on the couch before we call it a day. Frequently it is a church service on Youtube. We just finished Season 1 of The Chosen (BYUTV but we aren’t Mormon) and I very much recommend it. PlutoTV, with old movies, is also coming up more and more. BYU, Pluto, and many others are free apps on ROKU interface.
3. Have any of you pulled the plug completely on cable TV and phone landlines?
Yes. Our landline is now free with Google Voice (Evil) but that is only for places we didn’t change over to cell numbers. All junk calls go there. We used to use the KODI app on firestick but that just became a huge pain in the ass adding and maintaining plugins. Paying a little for the TV to work on those few occasions I want it to work was worth it. I do computer shit all day at work and don’t want to do more when I come home just to watch TV.
A very cheap and legit source of cable over internet is USTVNow. We also used that for a year.
4. How much do you pay per month for internet, TV and phone?
Internet is ~100. Anything else is in addition to that. Our 3 cell phones combined are less than $100 as well.
Until a week ago all we had was a cell phone and an internet connection.
Bills were 120/mo for two phones and 60 for internet.
Virgin mobile for phones and Telus from internet.
Since we’ve brought back the wifes parents we’ve had to add the home phone and tv packages. So bill went up an additional $125/mo
I disconnected the landline after 2 things. One, Ma passed away; she was the only one who called me on it, and
two; AT&T had no plan for basic service lower than $50 / month. Shut it off 10+ years ago. Especially with the emergence of handheld cell phones the size of a KitKat bar, and coverage area greatly improved since cellular’s early years, circa 1985.
There may come a time, if the ‘grid’ goes down, that the cell towers stop working, but if they shut those down under martial law, the landlines would go offline, too, most likely.
As for TV, cable, streaming, etc. I’m conservative as hell, and just couldn’t see spending $150-175 / month on a cable TV package pf 500+ channels, with high speed internet.
I have basic cable channels…that’s enough. Too much laziness and TV, and other stuff that needs disciplined attention doesn’t get accomplished. As for internet, I’m no gamer, and don’t stream movies, so, slow download speeds are just fine.
My combined TV & internet access on Comcast is about $70 a month.
I read something recently, by a guy who advised folks who treasure their media favorites, to make sure and secure
hard copies of music (as opposed to digital / streaming libraries), and likewise with movies.
If the www goes down, but the electrical source is still intact, you can play those old crackly .33’s on your turntable and receiver from the 70’s, and likewise, play old DVD’s of your favorite movies, where streaming on demand might be dead in the water.
I’m building a DVD collection of favorites, when I can find them in the bargain bin for $0.50 at resale stores.
And yeah, I make sure and inspect them for pristine condition; i.e., no scratches.
The Bourne trilogy;
V for Vendetta;
Blazing Saddles;
any Monty Python;
SilverStreak;
Midnight Run;
The Patriot;
American Sniper;
A River Runs Through It;
Hunt for Red October;
The Outlaw Josey Wales;
Rob Roy;
Taken;
Dances With Wolves;
Shawshank Redemption;
Legends of the Fall;
Gladiator;
300;
Saving Private Ryan;
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest;
Reservoir Dogs;
Braveheart;
Good Will Hunting;
The Green Mile;
The Passion of the Christ;
Amadeus;
Band of Brothers set;
Mystic River;
Heat, with Pacino and dickhead DeNiro;
Manhunter (similar to Silence of Lambs, but directed by Michael Mann, the guy who directed Miami Vice episodes)
I watch Hulu and a bunch of different Youtube commentators because that’s the cheapest way to have access to foreign languages. Most of my entertainment choices are because of learning a language. I figure if they’re going to spew a bunch of woke propaganda there’s better ways to spend my time.
1. No
2. Any TV I watch , which is minimal, is over-the-air digital antenna TV. And that is only about 1-2 hours a week.
3. Yes on cable TV. Still have a phone landline, JIC.
4. About $60 a month for all.
Why pay for something you dont need?
Only a UHF digital TV antenna in a fringe rural area (now) that gets only liberal propaganda crap (anything that would be beneficial to American now is censored) and only useable in clear weather with no wind. The land line never worked so my wife got me a pocket phone that buzzes a lot but I rarely answer it because 99% is spam. I use the fiber-optics cable Internet morning and night to keep informed; only a couple friends ever email me back about once per month; even business usually don’t respond. The radio is all rap crap and windy talk I don’t have time for. People especially the Youth are very ignorant of science, civics, economics, history, and religion; politically left and insoucient, physically unfit and lazy, totally unprepared for any emergencies, fractured ideologically, ecological Karens, effectively socially and religiously dead meat, low on professional skills esp farming, and of course don’t have good jobs and any resources they didn’t inherit. They have voted for communist politicians and programs that make everything worse. They stepped into the cherished democratic machine of choices earned by the blood and sweat of their forefathers and chose to pull the levers for social perversions and instant gratifications, and future shortages, hyperinflation, suffering, liquidation, wars & doom. Eat, drink and be merry liberals because you chose liberalism, you chose to suffer and die really early; take the Booster and speed the process; it’s one more hope for a democrat rout in Nov22.
1. No
2. We have internet and cable only, and cell phones.
3.No
4. About 200, but we have it in 2 houses…,
We find the cable package saves us a lot of money on entertainment, since we are Amazon Prime…
Betcha that old battle axe has had all her shots and boosters…
I have not owned nor watched TV in over 25 years. I get all my information, entertainment and knowledge by reading. Although I have a flip phone in my car I will always have a landline in case of an emergency. Think about what you would do if your phone broke or your lost it and were home alone? Yelling 911 ain’t gonna help.
1) No tv
2) A phone with internet and HULU baked in to the monthly bill. Basic HULU. No bells or whistles. Didn’t watch for the first year. Now I only watch true crime or AHS. Read a lot.
Phone doubles as a PC.
3) Still have a landline, but never use. Remnant from my late aunt’s advice. She was likeminded to TBP and is probably flipping in her grave.
4) $175 per month because of the landline.
Internet via landline, yes. Cheapy set-up . (So cheap that I cannot enjoy Friday Fail here anymore…stuff just won’t load.) Only other use for the landline is when the wife or I have to discuss sensitive data with bank, broker, or the occasional doctor. $86/mo
No cable TV…for about 20 years. It just seems that there is not enough spare time. When available time presents itself,we read books for the most part and, on occasion, get DVDs that interest us from the library. We also have a library of movies/TV series of old that we like and get a viewing every couple years or so. Some are in VCR format but we have a player that still works. BTW, the TV dates from the late 90’s, IIRC.
Cell phones? Beloved has an old smart phone, me an old flip phone. $40/mo in total.
Yep…we’re dull.
Da P
$203, internet, cable, phone. In my part of the world. Unlimited use, net and calling.
$25 a month for prepaid cell phone (I pay by the year) with 8gb of data on the hotspot and thats it. I have a FTA (free to air) C band dish, a motorized FTA Ku band dish and a terrestrial antenna.