Actually, we don’t have any TVs in our house. I stopped watching when D was very young…there was just a lot of stuff I wasn’t comfortable with her seeing/hearing. Now, 15 years later, neither she nor I can tolerate even 10 minutes of it in an airport. It’s something that, once you give it up, you never have a taste for again. And since she’s never known it (since Barney days, anyway), she finds TV pretty bizarre and unpleasant. </p>
<p>That said, we are classic-movie fans and do watch a movie or two most weekends. This reminds me to remind her to be sure to request a no-TV roommate next year. That would be a deal-breaker for her.</p>
<p>Since we mostly use the TV to watch DVDs, I wouldn’t really have a problem giving up TV. I’d miss the Olympics, but that’s about it. We were only watching one TV show last year, and we mostly watched it a day late on Hulu because it was on later than my kid wanted to go to bed.</p>
<p>I didn’t watch TV much at college. For a while there was a group watching *The Prisoner *and I know I caught some of Saturday Night Live, but not on a regular basis. The dorm TVs were more than enough.</p>
Yes, I forgot the Olympics. That’s the one TV thing we DO watch. But we just go over to Grandparents’/friends’ houses for those few evenings to watch with them. Makes it more fun anyway.</p>
<p>Our house has one TV: a small portable on a cart with an aerial. No cable. We can get about 4 stations. Recently the DVD player–a gift from a relative–stopped working.</p>
<p>Would I like to have a nicer TV and cable? Sure, especially to be able to watch movies. And of course DWTS. Would H? Emphatically no.</p>
<p>But more to the point, did I ever watch TV in college? Almost never! There was a TV in one of the dorm lounges, and a very few people watched soaps on it. In four years at college, I knew precisely ONE student who had a TV in her room. </p>
<p>There are far more interesting things to do in a college dorm than watch TV, at least in my experience. Of course, I grew up in a house with at most one TV and sometimes none, and when small was allowed to watch at most 3 shows per week.</p>
<p>Maybe I missed it, but I’m hoping the OP comes back to tell us how everything went and whether they brought anything back.</p>
<p>Let her make her own choices and take what she wants. I was (and am) the type who has to have my things around me to make me feel secure, but whenever I traveled, my mom always made me leave half the stuff I wanted behind, and I’ve never forgotten it.</p>
<p>Actually, in our house the TV is only on when we all watch something together. Girls and I really bonded over Lost, Gilmore Girls, Glee, and a few other shows. I felt it was a great alternative to everyone having their own solitary nose buried in their laptops!</p>
<p>^My mom, sister, and I watch Gilmore Girls together multiple times a week. I think its a great bonding show.</p>
<p>I went for an interview at a college yesterday, and it just so happened to be move-in day there. Someone brought a U-HAUL TRUCK full of all of their stuff. As long as your daughter doesn’t bring as much stuff as the U-Haul kid, she should probably be fine.</p>
Would H? Emphatically no.</p>