Living with Less TV Update

It's been two months since I went on a tangent  admitted how much time I was spending in front of the TV and how I wanted to make a change.  I was turning that thing on about 4-4:30pm everyday when I got home from work and not shutting it off until bedtime.  Was I spending that full 5-6 hours every single day sitting in front of the TV?  Not usually.  But man was it easy to get sucked into a marathon of What Not to Wear reruns (may she rest in peace).

So where am I now?  Did it work?  I'm happy to report that while we're not living TV-free yet (and probably never will), it gets significantly less time that it used to.  We're watching about 1 hour each night; it's still something Drew and I do together before heading to bed.  All of our viewing comes from recorded shows or an episode (or two if it's a shorter show) on Netflix.

And you know what?  I feel so much better!  I'm so much more aware now of what I'm watching and how much I'm watching.  I spend more time outside.  My house is cleaner.  I've read more books in the past month than I have all year.  When the list of cancelled shows was released, I was secretly happy to be able to delete a couple more items from my DVR.  And I haven't read a single article about "which shows you have to watch this fall."  I don't have to watch them, actually.

Like I said earlier, I don't think we'll ever cut the cord completely, but we're definitely moving our time toward other forms of entertainment.  Hopefully this will help us to eventually cut out that horribly expensive DirecTV bill.

What about you?  Have you started watching less TV?  What was your reasoning?