Living without TV

[biggestbloopers]

Just posting this as our TV has broken and I'm considering not replacing it but I'm curious to see whether there are any other families out there without TV and how you find it?

We're a pretty low screen time family (young primary school aged DC) and I quite like the idea of using this as an opportunity to go without it properly. I'm conscious that I don't want the kids to feel left out at school, so was planning on doing it as a trial for a bit to see how it goes. However, the few people I've mentioned it to think we're mad, but surely we can't be the only ones to try it?

biggestbloopers

In 2009 my tv broke and I thought Ill replace it if we miss it.

my dc were about 12 and 18 so not little and youngest did an incredible amount of sport - so we were always at training for different stuff.

This meant that we weren't home in the evenings much and homework and supper meant programs weren't on anyway when we wanted to watch them.

We had a pc so we would watch particular programs of interests

since then tv has changed considerably and we have laptops with Netflix and dd is now in her ealry 20s and has a tv in her room

we don't have a tv downstairs - but brought the tv down on xmas day and binged watched Emily in Paris and have watched a couple of films on netflix

tv will go back upstairs I expect in the next few days

I don't miss having a tv, but still do watch stuff. TV doesn't dominate the household and a few of DDS friends say they like the fact here there isn't a tv and lots of chat

@PuppyMonkey

I bet none of those 130 books you read this year were as good as Succession sober.

Ha! I'll take that risk 😂

I've never had a TV. The kids never seemed interested in one when they were growing up either. They too, don't own one as adults, their partners and kids watch stuff online, such as Netflix etc.
I very rarely watched my parents TV when I was growing up so I didn't see the point in getting one when I married.
I also get the ' you don't have a TV? But what do you do in the evenings?? ' as though TV is the be all and end all of life.

We've never had a TV, youngest is 14yo.

It's not like when we were little and only 5 channels so everyone watched the same, and you can often get bits on highlights later now. Only time mine complain is ds when it's big football matches if we can't get those. But we normally can.