While everyone is watching Game of Thrones, Hubby and I are trying hard to avoid spoilers. We canceled our cable at the end of last year in anticipation of the move. We kept the internet but got rid of everything else. We’ve got Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime so it’s not like we don’t have plenty to watch anyway. Although we really need to watch less television, not more. 

So when the final season of Game of Throne came on we debated about whether or not to get HBO for a month through our Amazon Prime subscription. We finally decided to wait until the season was over and use the 7-day free trial. Normally I wouldn’t do something like that because it’s cheating in a sense, but we never watched HBO when we were paying for cable. The exception, of course, being Game of Thrones. I figure I paid for their channel for years when I didn’t use it so I’m not going to feel too badly about using the free trial that they offer to watch the last season of the only show I did watch.

Hubby and I prefer to binge watch shows anyway. Even when we had cable we recorded everything on the DVR and then we’d watch it all at once. The older I get the less I like schedules. Or maybe that’s due more to my working from home for so many years and being able to set my own schedule. I’ve never been very good at keep other people’s schedules. Apparently the same is true for my television watching as well.

Another thing, Hubby and I are trying to spend less time in front of the television. We’re going to be selling our 52 inch flat screen television instead of taking it with us when we move. We’ve decided we’re going to have a smaller television and we’re only going to have one instead of three or four like we have now. Or I should say we had since we just donated the three smaller ones.

I mean, there are only two of us so why do we need four televisions? Answer: We don’t.

I’ve decided I don’t want one in the living room of the new house. We’re going to have a little seating area in the master bedroom suit and we plan to have it there. That way we can have conversations and enjoy time with one another while we’re in the living room and kitchen instead of zoning out in front of a screen. The seating area will be separated from the bedroom by a bathroom and will be a good place to watch television for a few hours before bed.

During the day we’ll both be working, either on the house itself, on the homestead, or one of the various other endeavors we plan to take on in the future. We won’t have time to watch television. But when we do we’ll make a day of it and binge watch a show. 

We might end up putting a television in the living room at some point but ideally I’d rather not. The point of this move is to be able to be outside more, to be more active, and to build a life that doesn’t require either one of us to work for other people anymore. It’s going to be a lot of work and there are going to be sacrifices, but it will be worth it in the end.

Hubby and I make a good team. We know if we work together then anything is possible.

What about you? Are you a binge watcher or do you prefer to watch one episode a week?