The cost of having cable is insane. Stupid. Insulting.
Just. Don't. Get. It.
I find that every summer I start to reevaluate why we pay this ridiculous cost to have television in our home.
And then I remind myself that it's July and we aren't watching TV. But that we live in Minnesota and in January, we see more of our TV than we do of our neighbors.
But still.
Last night Brian and I headed to the family room to watch our DVR-ed season premiere of "Mad Men."
As I pulled it up I realized we had not sat down to watch a television show since the finale of "LOST." Which, for the record, was May 23.
And cable runs about $130 a month. So that means that watching that one episode of "Mad Men" last night cost us about $260, meaning one of us could have practically flown to Madison Avenue in New York ourselves.
What do we like about cable?
-- On Demand, especially for good kids programming, at the ready.
-- DVR because with both of us working full time and parenting full-time when we are home, we don't watch anything live.
-- I like being able to watch shows when they are current (meaning I don's see us being people to watch old seasons of shows on DVD a year late).
-- Having shows in HD. Cause they're just prettier that way.
