My Minimalist Story, Part 5: Starting Over: Don’t get me wrong, apartment hunting in a foreign country was an exciting experience—in fact, it’s something we’d always fantasized about on our travels. Unfortunately, however, it marked the end of our blissfully minimalist, hotel life. It had been my long-time dream to live in hotels, with nothing more than a single suitcase; and I was fortunate enough to realize it, for six weeks, while we moved from the US to the UK… {read more}
Minimalist Living: Life Without a TV: For years, my husband and I talked about giving up our TV. We hadn’t had cable in a decade, hardly watched anything other than the news, and didn’t like the way it was the focal point of our living room. But for some reason we could never take the crucial step of getting rid of the darn thing. Worse yet: when a lightning storm conveniently destroyed it for us, what did we do? We went out and bought another one. {sigh} Our recent overseas move, however, provided us with another chance to be TV-free. And this time, I’m happy to report, we took it… {read more}
Thankfully we’ve completely removed any reliance on television. It’s just not worth watching and wasting your life on.
When I was young I watched cartoons but usually I had way to much to do to bother watch anything. Now we don’t even have one.
I don’t even watch or read the news. It’s not really of any importance to me, mostly it’s just depressing with people telling you everything that’s wrong in the world. After the two stories that were reported on in the area, one that I witnessed and another that a friend witnessed, the news got both stories entirely wrong.
I have no trust in the media whatsoever. As they say… Never let the facts get in the way of a good story…
I think TV is OK if you turn it on to watch 1 show and turn it off when that show is over. I like to watch craft demonstrations and painting on TV. The bad thing is when it becomes a substitute for human interaction or more challenging entertainment.