Like a bajillion other people, I cut the cord to cable TV. Prices continued to go up while programming options declined. I’ve tried every service — from Hulu to Sling and more. I ended up with YouTube TV. Happy in the beginning, my monthly bill has now increased to about the same as I was paying for cable.
So with my Internet connectivity ($70/m) plus YouTube TV (now $65/m) plus Netflix that I rarely watch ($12/m) plus Apple TV ($5/m) and Disney ($7/m) I’m paying $159/m to connect to the Internet and watch TV for 30-60 minutes a day as I fall asleep in bed at night. And I just added Discovery + as a trial ($7/m).
I added Discovery + in hopes that I could dump YouTube TV. I only watch news channels when something is happening… for example, I had on Fox News (with an occasional flip to CNN) during the attack on the US Capitol and I’d hate to give that up! I switch it up between Oxygen and ID at night to sleep (maybe why my sleep habits are crap), and I hit up HGTV occasionally. TADA! That’s it.
I’m spending way too much for TV programming I don’t watch very often anyway — even during a pandemic.
I’ll provide a review within the next 5-7 days on Discovery +. In the meantime, I’m going to eat the brownies I made yesterday (don’t get excited — it was a box mix). If this happened BEFORE watching even one new episode of Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Table, just think of what could be the future potential of my cooking prowess. 😉
And late yesterday afternoon — and even into the evening hours, we got more snow! Woot! Not much sticking — a little ground cover and nothing on the roads, but I’ll take it anyway.
TIL (Today I Learned): Only 8% of the world’s currency exists as physical cash. The rest exists only on a computer hard drive in electronic bank accounts around the world.