To think there is nothing actually wrong with watching TV.......

[Miaowing]

.... and for wondering why people get so snobbish and holier than thou about it.

DH and I are in our 50s and childfree by choice. We do stuff but we also watch a LOT of TV. Mainly box sets, movies and sport.

I read a lot - he doesn't but he never has. He's not a book person.

There is nothing IMHO wrong with watching TV yet on here it seems to be a badge of honour not to own one or to be so high and mighty that its beneath you.

In real life I do't know anyone like that - which does make me wonder how there are so many on here.

namby
by not wasting time in front of the tv....

I don't know why you are trying to be goady, I don't know anyone who waltz through life with a part-time job, no commute, no chores. I don't know anyone with one of these mythical MN 9 to 5 job either. I don't even know an office or a shop closing at 5pm.

Passthecherrycoke
yes , good for you.

Some of us don't earn enough to buy a property near their office, so what. At least we got a job.

I don’t spend 3-4 hours doing chores but maybe I am slovenly
maybe
maybe you have help, maybe you don't cook from scratch, maybe you clean fast.

My house would be a tip if I only spent 30 minutes a week cleaning it.

@SeriouslyEnoughAlreadyRantOver I'm just teasing you because you said you didn't have time for TV, but you do as you have time for a hobby which you choose over tv, totally cool, I just choose the tv! The point is none of us are hopefully too busy for down time, however we choose to spend it!

I work for the civil service so I work flexi, I can work anytime between 7am-7pm so long as I'm working 140ish hours a month a think it is, equivalent of 35 a week, I get in 9.30 after school drop off and tend to leave 5pm, 5.30 if I need to get my flexi up, or 4pm if I've had enough like I did today! All my public sector jobs have been like this, I've never known a job not be 9-5 generally. I have a 25 minute commute, I live outside a city with amazing road links. It's the shortest commute I've ever had though, I've done the whole commuting over London thing, it was fine though, that's when I did all my postgrad reading! We have chores but DH does half of them!

I love TV, I don’t watch a huge amount, maybe an hour a day at most.

Some good, some trash. I went home for lunch today so my boyfriend and I watched some trash for an hour, celebs go dating!

I do cook from scratch and I don’t have any help at all, my DM lives an hour away and has a disability. My deep clean is on satuday mornings, I only do washing up, wipe downs, hoover and tidy, bathrooms in the week. I do clean fast, I ran a cleaning company years ago. Maybe you clean slow?

You prioritise the chores, it’s not that you don’t have time. Some people unwind doing their cleaning, that’s also fine. But one is not inherently better than the other, nor is it a greater achievement.

There’s also a lot to be learned from TV, it’s not all Dinner Date and Love Island, Question Time and some of the really good shows on BBC4 are far more taxing than any Sophie Kinsella book.

IMO people grossly over exaggerate the fact they watch no tv and actually stream loads.

I tend not to put the tv on throughout the day save for a quick 15 minutes for my DD but I’m happy to admit that I watch tv most evenings then I go to bed and read. I don’t see the issue with this.

then that's the main difference, I have banned any kind of chores at the weekend (apart from the obvious, we do eat and sometimes we eat at home!)

What you do on Saturdays, I do before going to work. I like my weekends!

Yanbu. I hardly watch any TV but I don't feel strongly about it. Some of my very best friends make their living from watching TV.

It's far more worthwhile, entertaining/informative to watch TV than to browse endless nonsense on the internet or constantly hang around on social media, imho.

Seriously I have a part time job, no commute, do hardly any chores and where I live most offices and shops do close at 5pm.

But life is about choices, no doubt you made the choice to have four children, live in the South East, have a well paid career which necessitates a long commute ... my choice was to move from the South East, just have one child, work part time at a job I could walk to and not be fussed about having an immaculate home .... but I will agree with you that I don't watch much tv either .

I have the tv on all the time I'm at home sz background noise but I rarely actually watch it.
I did pay attention during the simpsons earlier

seriously why do you keep referring to ""The mythical MN 9 to 5 job" They're honestly not mythical! Nor just found on MN. Do you honestly not know anyone who works in, for example, the public sector or civil service?

I know you said there are 'a lot of people like me' in the South East but you do realise that the SE isn't the whole of the country, and there are a lot more people outside of it that don't work a fifty hour week or commute more than half an hour a day? Your circumstances are comparatively unusual so you can't extrapolate them to everyone else!

You talk about watching TV being a waste of time - I would count 3 hours a day spent watching TV far less of a waste of time than 3 hours commuting to work, scrunched up under a stranger's armpit and spending thousands for the privilege!

Also - mindblower here - perhaps people manage to fit in all the hours of TV watching you are wondering about by doing things simultaneously? e.g. watching TV while on the treadmill at the gym/breastfeeding baby/doing the ironing/online grocery shop/commuting via train?

Reading some of these comments is making me think I’m a lazy cow who never cleans...

I’m a teacher and am on week five of six weeks off with two year old ds. I’ve been round with the hoover most days as have a cordless job, dishwasher on daily and the odd load of washing and bed changing... I’ve definitely spent more time building with duplo and watching Disney than I have cleaning.... and my house is reasonably tidy I would say.

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And actually that’s me.

I knit. Whilst watching tv.

I do the company accounts. Whilst watching tv

Shock horror, I sometimes work from home whilst watching tv.

but

When I was at school and uni I was the same. Straight A’s, first class and on the way to phd. Mostly whilst watching tv.

It there and I somehow manage to watch and do and I’m not ashamed of it

If all I did was watch tv, I still wouldn’t mind because I love it

I did my 9-5 job from home today with the tv on in the background

Well I turned the sound of when I had meetings...

I do have an armpit scrunch commute 45 mins each way in the tube though

And a cleaner

What are we arguing about?

Frasier is awesome and 2 episodes every morning

I concentrate better with some background noise, always have done

Horses for courses and all that

Were arguing because I’m pissed off at the morale superiority displayed on here about tv watching!

It wound me up this morning reading a thread about sky and people saying why? It started from sky is evil use now tv and descended into all tv is bad.

miaowing why do you care so much about what other people think though?

I'm sure you judge people for certain things too.its human nature.

Oh just ignore them

Everyone judges on something

I couldn't give a toss about TV but judge hard on some things eg people who are judgemental over something as trivial as watching the TV