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yellowbird · 07-25-2006, 04:03 PM

Ok, maybe it's just me but it seems that TV's are too much of the everyday life of Americans. I walked around my house and counted that we have six TV's. These are located in the living room, family room, basement living room, two bedrooms, and the den. It does not what part of the house you are in, you will never miss your TV show! And, we have suround sound hooked up to two of them. I was at a friends house out of town the othe day and though they have a smaller house than I, they had more TV's! One in every single room of the house with the exception of the bathroom. Even one in the garage. Now if I go out to eat and there is a TV in the resteraunt, I will not sit in the area of it. When I am out with my husband or friends, I want a conversation, not listening to the TV. Then, as if the many TV's aren't enough, we have to keep buying bigger and better TV's. The plasma. (yes, we have one

.) Instead of getting rid of one TV when you buy a new one, you just move the old one to a different room. What my husband doesn't understand though is that in order to have a TV in a room, you must also have furniture. So, I get to buy new furniture and change it around as oftern as he buys TV's!

Desiree · 07-25-2006, 04:07 PM

we have to face it there are TVs everywhere... I have 2 tv's in my house one for light at night in my bedroom I watch CNN before bed and one in my living room which the husband seems glued to the couch... the local hospital here has Plasma tv's in every room and a big screen tv in the waiting room... even the mcdonalds here has plasma tvs

yellowbird · 07-25-2006, 04:28 PM

It was funny, we had just moved into a different house and our cable wouldn't be hooked up for about a week. My husband is at work all day and I have a couple days off during the week. I don't watch TV and have never turned it on during the day unless to check the weather or listen to a music channel. Just knowing the TV didn't work even if I wanted to watch it made me nuts! That's pathetic on how important TV is in our lives! Once the cable was hooked up, I still didn't watch it during the day but at least my anxiety from it was gone. Gosh, I even hate to admit it! I can't believe a hospital has plasma TV's. It's a good thing hospitals have TV's for the pt's sake.

Desiree · 07-25-2006, 04:57 PM

the hospital here has this in and out in 25 mins or they give you a 25 dollar certificate to the local stores here LOL unless your a serious case but that 25 mins was nice layen in the bed watchen tv on a plasma... haha Yea I dont watch tv cept for weather news and music and even then not much It annoys me I just dont want to watch it

JLo · 07-25-2006, 07:53 PM

I would probably have more TVs if I had signed up for additional satellite TV receivers. Right now we have 4 TVs...one in the master bedroom, one in the guestroom, one in the theater room, and one in the family room. I will draw the line at putting TVs in my kids' bedrooms. But if we had another satellite TV receiver, I would probably have a TV in my office.

Desiree · 07-25-2006, 08:09 PM

I grew up with i think 6 tvs in our house one in each kids room one in the spare room one in the living room one in family room and the rents room... was kind of nice having a tv even though i never really watched it

technt77 · 07-25-2006, 09:07 PM

I think I'm in the minority: we have one tv in the house. We used to have two, but when we moved to an acreage and a smaller house, we had to get rid of one tv just because we didn't have room.

We have never (and I vow will never have) had a TV in the bedroom. That's where we have our best conversations, and I'd hate the thought that the drone of Lettermen or TV Land would put me to sleep.

It's disturbing to me how much TV I can squeeze into a day if I want to just veg, and how much TV the average adult and child watches. Check out the turn off the tv websites that promote turning the tv off for an entire week in April. It's not a bad thing.

rocker21 · 07-25-2006, 09:44 PM

Only one tv in my house too- no room for any more!

Desiree · 07-25-2006, 10:48 PM

I am not sure why but the tv on and the volume down all the way I sleep if not I just cant get to sleep... Ill admit sometimes I wake up in the night and cant sleep again so i watch cnn headline all night until the sun comes up then im mad at myself at 7 am when the baby wakes up lol

technt77 · 07-25-2006, 11:08 PM

I read once that TV is one of the biggest sleep robbers for those of us in our 20's.