How much TV do you watch? Karen and I watched… just a few programs in the past.. Karen had her 7th Heaven, Full House, Everyday Italian, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, Clean Sweep, Makeover Story, Ambush Makeover, McGyver, Fear Factor, Perfect Proposal, and more that have escaped my mind at this moment. Now those were just her programs. Together we also watched Smallville, American Idol, The Apprentice, America’s Next Top Model, and Project Greenlight. Yes, that’s quite a bit of programs thanks to TiVo! 😐
After reflecting on a sermon by Elton about cutting out the busyness in our lives, we conducted an experiment by suppressing our carnal desires of watching TV for an entire week! Yes, I literally yanked all the RCA cables and the power cable from the rear of the TV!
Every night, we sat at the dinette glaring at each other during dinner, which I suppose is a positive thing. Then from the extra few hours we gained back each day, we’ve been going out to the mall, the bookstore, or the coffee shop! Wow… what a difference!
A week later, we missed TV, so we reverted back to old form. We do watch no more than half an hour of TV a day now, but I suppose the lack of good prime time television and the scarcity of new Full House episodes may have something to do with it. However, since we have joined Netflix, the time simply shifted from TV to movies. Oh well, we’re bound to run out of movies at some point, right?
By the way, it turns out that I was the only one without TV that week. I later discovered that Karen had cunningly reconnected the TV while I was at work! And I thought disconnecting all cables from the TV provided a large enough hurdle! Looks like next time, I’ll need to hide the cables too. 😛
Karen is a college graduate you know 😛
Maybe you should include in your study how much internet time you use at home each week 🙂
haha…I was thinking the same thing as Dr. Donut Jr…how many hours did you spend on the internet (blogging) during that week? Anyways, yeh not too many good shows on now.
The thought of turning off the internet for a week crossed my mind, but only for about 0.5 seconds before I dismissed it as Mission Impossible. That would be like fasting, except worst!