We dropped cable because it got too expensive. Then we dropped Netflix because it got too expensive and they started dropping series while we were in the middle of watching them. Then we dropped Amazon for much the same reasons, plus anything REALLY decent costs extra money (for 24 hour availability). Now? We watch documentaries on YouTube during dinner, muting the commercials - we don't really watch movies or TV shows anymore... live cams of critters are fun, too (this is my favorite - https://www.youtube.com/live/4kRzwJXaeIM?feature=shared - hedgehogs come out at night!). Now we have time to read more books. My hack for reading is probably just due to my ADHD - when a book is good, I get totally hyperfocused (an ADHD superpower) and nothing short of an explosion in the next room can distract me. 🤯 Take that, Netflix! Good column, Nia! 😊
Ahhhh I'm so annoyed by this too! In just the last few months we've lost my kids' favourite movie from the streaming services we pay for. We don't watch much TV, but it was the one movie they both requested for every Saturday movie night. We ended up buying it digitally, but it's an absolute pain to have a streaming service that you think you can watch something on and then for that to disappear without warning
Two things - a) yes, I totally see this with the subscriptions. It's really frustrating that everything has gone up by £1 this year - it's so little individually, but really adds up. I have tried to cut back on our subscriptions, but they keep slipping back in again.
b) on the person with internet from the 1800s - I was talking about something about when I was a kid and my son said 'was that in the 1900s?' and I was like WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, and then realised that yes, it was. Time is bizarre. Also: I am old, ha.
We dropped cable because it got too expensive. Then we dropped Netflix because it got too expensive and they started dropping series while we were in the middle of watching them. Then we dropped Amazon for much the same reasons, plus anything REALLY decent costs extra money (for 24 hour availability). Now? We watch documentaries on YouTube during dinner, muting the commercials - we don't really watch movies or TV shows anymore... live cams of critters are fun, too (this is my favorite - https://www.youtube.com/live/4kRzwJXaeIM?feature=shared - hedgehogs come out at night!). Now we have time to read more books. My hack for reading is probably just due to my ADHD - when a book is good, I get totally hyperfocused (an ADHD superpower) and nothing short of an explosion in the next room can distract me. 🤯 Take that, Netflix! Good column, Nia! 😊
Ahhhhh so spot on !!!! My husband and I were just talking about this phenomenon.
Ahhhh I'm so annoyed by this too! In just the last few months we've lost my kids' favourite movie from the streaming services we pay for. We don't watch much TV, but it was the one movie they both requested for every Saturday movie night. We ended up buying it digitally, but it's an absolute pain to have a streaming service that you think you can watch something on and then for that to disappear without warning
Two things - a) yes, I totally see this with the subscriptions. It's really frustrating that everything has gone up by £1 this year - it's so little individually, but really adds up. I have tried to cut back on our subscriptions, but they keep slipping back in again.
b) on the person with internet from the 1800s - I was talking about something about when I was a kid and my son said 'was that in the 1900s?' and I was like WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, and then realised that yes, it was. Time is bizarre. Also: I am old, ha.