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MADem

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8. I keep the cable because I've got a large multigenerational family and some of the
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 04:51 PM
Apr 2015

older ones like it. It does keep the peace and it's an effective babysitter! If I ever get to the point where I've fully "divested," though, I think I'll go a la carte. Already I watch a lot of overseas programming via the net, as well as stuff from Amazon Prime. One of our family has a netflix account, too, and you can get a lot of material that way. And when I'm up in the woods of Maine, where I can get three stations on an antennae (four if you count a really crappy one--horrible reception, it's basically ABC programming, pretty much-- from Canada that goes in/out) I use the REDBOX!

I take your point about the good books! I've gotten back into reading after a bit of a hiatus and I realized how much I miss it!

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