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Save money on TV expense, if you *must* have it

by The Engineer on April 23, 2008 •
in frugal, save money • This post may contain affiliate links. Read the disclosure policy.

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While doing without Cable or Dish is probably the most frugal way to go, sometimes it is not an option. For ourselves, we are more than 100 miles from any major city, so we don’t really get any tv stations on rabbit ears, thus we are stuck with either satillite or cable.

We used to have cable through cable one, but the cost kept going up. We had the full package with basic cable, cable internet and digital cable (included a basic DVR, music channels and a few more channels than basic cable). All in all this was costing us about 120 a month. We have since dropped everything but cable internet at 32.99 a month and signed up for dish network satellite TV at 39.99 a month. After taxes that puts us about 40+ dollars less a month… almost 500 dollars a year. That is not insignificant. My wife reminds me that we could have had just a basic “family” dish package at 19.99 a month, but I was already addicted to the DVR service and felt it was something I can’t live without. Honestly with working 50 hours a week and trying to keep up with the housework, yardwork and an infant, I hardly ever get to watch anything “live” anyway.

The package we got is the America’s top 100 dvr advantage, which gives us 100 channels of tv, a bunch of music stations and a really sweet DVR setup that has 150 hours of record time. It is installed FREE, is no extra cost for up to two rooms and even has 3 months of free programming. There is no wierd hidden anything other than a contract, and who doesn’t make you sign a contract these days. Overall experience is A+++++, we could not be happier, especially since we are saving 500 dollars a year. I put a link on the bottom of my blog, check it out. I had no quams with cable one, but they were really sockin’ it to us on the bill.

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