No More I've Had Enough

     It may be difficult for most of you to remember but before the advent of cable television there was no such thing as pay TV.  When I was growing up, people paid for a television and an antenna and received all the television content over the airwaves for free.  If you're under the age of 35 you probably have no clue of what I am talking about but there is tons of television content free for the taking.  If you are sick and tired of paying $100 a month and every time you turn around the cable company is asking for more then I want to hear you say " No more I've had enough".
     Yes I know, apprehension and fright comes to mind when canceling your cable or satellite television account is a consideration.  Pay television has become so common that it's considered a necessary utility for most people along the same lines as water and electricity.  But at $100 dollars a month that's a boatload of money over a lifetime.  I for one have a lot better life enhancing ways to spend $1200 each year.
     Content Content Content!  250 channels gets you a lot of content but you're probably only watching a dozen of those channels.  If you are stupid enough to pay $1200 plus a year for those 12 channels then I've got a bridge I'll sell you.  But then again,  the cable and satellite companies base their business plan on America's stupidity which in turn makes those companies some of the most valuable companies in America.  Cable and satellite programming providers rely on the ease and simplicity of plug and play TV.   These providers perceive the hassle of getting content any other way as  headache no one wants.  That's their only justification to keep people paying their pay TV bill month after month, year after year.
     I saw the light or I guess you could say the airwaves in the late 1980s when I decided to cancel my cable television account. My first cable experience was around $ 8  a month for very a basic package but I soon moved up to a package of  more channels for $18 a month and was happy with the channel line up for $18 a month.  Then the Cable Company decided to put several of my favorite channels on the next level of service and priced that level at $35.  That move  really pissed me off and that's when I told the Cable Company "No More I've Had Enough". I have done with cable television almost 25 years.  If you use the 1988 figure of $35 a month,  the savings by not having a cable all those month from 1988 to the present amounts to $10,500.   Once again if you are 35 or younger, you probably think I'm lying to you but there is going to come a time when even you youngsters are going to say "No more  I've had enough" when you open that monthly cable bill.