I'm starting today.
10 months ago
This is a good week to try this. It’s the holidays.
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How to live without television for a week
It made me
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 "Not purposefully done."
How I did it: This was completely accidental. I moved in with my boyfriend about 5 months ago and he coincidentally does not have television/cable. He has a tv, he has about a hundred movies, but there is no CNN here, no MTV, VH1, or Showtime. We watch films occasionally, but I look up the current weather conditions online, I get my pop culture fix from perezhilton.com, and I watch SNL clips on Youtube. It is interesting to say the least. Sometimes I miss tv, but mostly, after a while, you find other things to do to occupy your time. I read more now, I'm more outgoing, and I've definitely contributed more of my time to creating art than I would have if there was a tv around to watch. TV is a life-sucker, time-waster, and I truly believe it does our society more harm than good.
Lessons & tips: Just get rid of the damn thing!! |
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How I did it: At my school, there was No Television Week. I signed up to take part of it. It was really hard. I didn't realize I watched TV so much. But I found a way around it. When I felt like I was gonna die if I didn't watch TV, I asked my dad (who wasn't part of it) to turn the TV onto some boring channel. Then, I closed my eyes and listened. I sorta cheated, but it worked! Whenever I did this, I would either fall asleep or go do something else. I… Read how I did it…
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17 months ago
I’m not sure when I entered this goal, but I’d say I’ve watched about 15min of TV in the past 5 days.
I’m on holidays this week, so it will really test me. I’ll have to make sure I don’t just spend my time on the computer instead though!
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A sense of measurement
17 months ago
I was going to say “Watch less TV,” but that is so non-specific. I would actually have to know how much TV I am watching every day in order to be able to watch less TV.
Besides, this sounds harder and I am a glutton for self punishment. I am starting a 7 day cleanse tomorrow. I will start a mental cleanse as well by cleansing TV out of my life.
great!
2 years ago
at first i can’t really believe that i reached this goal, even i had extended the period to ONE whole month. its awsum, and i never will regret on doing it.
good luck for those who in progress..
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2 years ago
This is surprisingly hard to do. I went for a week without TV during National Turn Off TV week. We have TVs and every room in our house. And my parents weren’t turning off the TV.
But it’s worth it. Think of all things you could be doing with TV time.
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2 years ago
The happiest person I’ve ever known didn’t own a television, DVD player, computer or playstation. Every evening his family would talk, tell stories, sing and play board games. I envied him.
I feel strangely productive
3 years ago
Not watching TV for a week was very helpful… Between reading more often (read: at all) and getting a sort of normal sleep schedule from not sitting up watching trivial shows and I don’t know what else, I’m very glad I did it and I decided to make a new rule for myself to turn the TV off if there’s not anything on I actually want to watch.
There were a couple of disadvantages: periodically I would feel the pangs of wanting to just sit around and relax with minimal thought. (Although sitting outside with a book was equally relaxing) Also, after years of watching TV with any less-than-fancy home meal (yes, even with my family), I found it a little unsatisfying to just sit at the table eating, or trying not to get cereal milk on the pages of my book.
After spending/wasting hours..
3 years ago
on the sofa watching/listening to whatever could be found. It’s time to convert tv back to a social only event, and free time for more fullfilling activities.
