Cutting the cable tv cord

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Here is another very recent thread about the same topic…maybe they should be merged.

Sick of expensive cable bills. This boomer finally cut the cord. What took me so long?

TL;DR - cutting the cable TV cord has been a great choice for me and might be a good choice for you too. You just have to do some research and learn a little bit; like an old dog learning a new trick. Fear of the unknown. “If it ain’t broken don’t fix it”. Aversion to change. We finally cut the (cable tv) cord. I think there was a CC Parents thread about this a couple years ago, but that thread is now locked. I, of course, ignored that thread anyways because, y’know, it didn’t apply to me. I don’t want to deal with change. You’ve probably heard the narrative that if you put a frog in a pot of hot water it will attempt to jump out but if you put it in a pot of cold water and heat it slowly the frog will sit till it’s boiled. I’m that frog with the cable bill. Every year the temperature (price) was raised and I sat there. Finally it came to a boil. I called the cable company for the dreaded bi-annual haggling. Crazy long wait time on hold. Me: I want to lower my overall bil…