Called DirecTV and asked why we couldn’t pay à la carte because it’s ridiculous to pay for 1000 channels of crap when I only watched about a dozen. The bastard laughed at me, so I told him I could live without it, then. I canceled on the spot. Pissed me off that I missed the last couple seasons of Vikings, but I’ve probably read close to 3000 books in that time so never really missed the constant background noise (and commercials!)
I did have Netflix, AppleTV, and Hulu for a good while because T-Mobile gave those to us for free (they’ve gone cheap on us and I refuse to even pay their $3/mo deal on AppleTV now), but I almost never watched them. Figure my son has set up a library of movies and TV shows (using Kodi) and I can “go to the movies” any time I want with that.
Seriously, we used to always have the TV on, and I wonder now why we put up with the constant adverts and stupid shows for all those years. Capitalism and the ‘60s really did a number on us, didn’t they? Happy to say my kids resisted that crap way younger than I did—though son’s a bit impatient that I still haven’t caught up to season 5 of Stranger Things yet so he can talk about it. 
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