A Wireless Woman
I cut the cable cord first,
did so way before my sons,
family, friends.
Today I find myself
celebrating the 10 yr victory
of mindless channel screens,
and thousands of dollars later.
It’s mostly sports I lost.
The key reason men can’t quit.
A Yankee fan, a football junkie,
basketball, even Sunday golf,
Still, pursued and never wavered,
a fan but not a die-hard.
The antennas became my monsters.
A promise of free local channels
was definitely part of the plan.
Since the roof was 3 stories high
I relied on newly enhanced window ones
that never seemed to work.
My Wi-Fi has been under $50 for years.
In time my TVs caught up with the trend
and offered everything needed.
In fact most of the time I watch my shows
on my iPad wherever I go.
I’m an Amazon devotee
so I get Prime for free
which started some choice sports events too.
I have Apple TV for $6.50, Disney for $7
and Netflix for $11 (ignored enhanced TV),
HBO was gifted.
Held on to my land-line phone till last year
when I moved in with my sister.
After a few annoying changes to accounts,
I really never missed it.
One last word on our ever changing tech,
Wi-Fi is the golden object of our lives
network connectivity that makes
your tv ‘smart’, your home, and you.
Which never seems to raise in price,
(now I sound like a commercial)
but I swear by the God of Clouds it’s true.
pattyv
Gee Patty, glad someone has figured it out.
I guess I’m a dinosaur , still have a TV (with oodles of channels never watched) and a landline (seldom used or answered).
And in fact do all my blogging, emailing, photographing, banking, and Amazon ordering . on my little pink iPhone – so go figure!
I actually wrote it for so many I know who are paying monstrous amounts and never watch anything, it’s not a poem but hopefully a little bit of info on cutting the cord.
Patty, you are woman who knows how to be ahead of the curve and I applaud you for that. My husband would never be satisfied to watch TV on an iPad (I watch Outlander from Starz that way and I don’t mind – I only sign up when a new season comes along). But, as you will read, we have not cut the cord, though we do have Apple TV+ and many other premium channels.
You are definitely ahead of me. Just now trying to figure out how to use Apple Pay/Wallet and leave all of those credit bards at home.
Good work on whittling down expenses. I haven’t gotten into watching anything on a computer/phone, and watch little on TV either–but pay a lot!
I am so behind the curve, I had to read this several times to know what was going on….
We recently dumped Dish, having previously dumped cable. Everything we watch is streamed, which has saved us a lot of money with only small sacrifices. Still too much, I am sure, but Gina handles that so I have no idea what we are paying. She assures me its less, though.
Best thing we got rid of was the land line. It had been pretty much 100% scam callers with thick Indian accents and names like Bob, Jim and Steve for a couple of years anyway.