The State of the TV Nation

Graeme Wright, my buddy in Ontario, will often ask if there are any flaws in the financial plan, and our answer is none. At this time a year ago we had just "cut the cord" and gone off the cable TV mortgage, something that was costing about $85 a month, so over the year, we saved a little over a thousand bucks.

Ok, one off charges for new equipment cost us about $300, so we saved about seven hundred bucks and a subscription to Netflix and a VPN was another $160, so we should subtract that from the savings, so at the end of the day, we saved about five hundred and sixty dollars over the year.

Although we did have Netflix before we sunk cable TV and we did fund the cost of the new equipment and the VPN from eBay profits, so we're back to saving a thousand bucks a year again.

So, in retrospect, was it worth it?. The big and loud answer is yes. We have watched more quality TV this year, when we wanted to watch it, than any year that we have been in Canada. The experience has been terrific. In fact, as time goes on, we keep finding more things to watch, again, at a time when we want to watch them, if we had the time to watch them that is.

If there are any flaws in this cord cutting plan, we have yet to find them.

Will update again in a years time.