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Spent Friday night with my daughters and it was fun. It’s been a month since we ditched cable after 34 years. We also switched to fiberoptics, and no one is missing anything…well except an outrageous cable bill…lol Elbow hugs! Stay Caffeinated.
Last Week on the Blog
- 🎧 Max Abaddon And The Gate To Everwhere By Justin Leslie (audio review)
- Capture The Crown Jennifer Estep (book review)
- The Unforgiven By Heather Graham (book review)
- 🎧 Hostage By Clare Mackintosh (audio review)
- 🎧 Freke Wyrd Voodoo By Steve Curry (audio review)
This Week on the Blog
- 🎧 A Fistful Of Fire By Rebecca Chastain Elise Arsenault (audio review)
- Isn’t It Bromantic? By Lyssa Kay Adams (book review)
- Radar Girls By Sara Ackerman (book review, guest post)
- 🎧 The Book Of Accidents By Chuck Wendig (audio review)
- The Forbidden By Heather Graham (audio review)
New Arrivals at the Caffeinated Cafe
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- The Maid by Nita Prose
- Hitched to the Gunslinger by Michelle McLean
- How to Badass Detective by Michael Anderle
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Lorna
So fun to have a girls night out with your daughters. We’ve talked about changing our cable. We have movie channels and that’s pretty stupid. I have to have Stars sir Outlander but I could always stream it the months it’s on. The problem we have is we all have really different channels we each like. I wouldn’t begin to know how to figure it out. I also get Prime, HBO-Max, Netflix and right now Acorn although I drop and then add back at times. I love foreign shows but I’m the only one here. One of these days, I know we need it. How do you get fiber optics? It’s too confusing to me.
Tyler H. Jolley
Oh man, I’ve been thinking of ditching cable. But our local company jacks up your rate for internet only. It sucks. How’s your knee? My son has knee surgery this week. Hoping it goes well.
Kimberly
I have a torn meniscus and am trying to avoid surgery. I am doing fairly well, but need a cane as sometimes my knee decides it doesn’t want to work. Without the cane I would face plant. We switched companies and went with fiber optic. We have unlimited data, super fast speeds and a locked in rate for life. Shop around.
Berls
Yay for ditching cable. We did it a few years ago and haven’t looked back. We do have several streaming services, but we share them with my brother so the cost is way cheaper. Hope you’re having a great week!
Ethan
We dropped cable when we moved into our house last year and have never looked back. They also recently ran fiber through our neighborhood, so we’ll have much faster internet soon. Hope you have a great week!
Kimberly
Yay…we love the fiber..it is so fast.
S. J. Pajonas
We gave up cable last year too, and we don’t miss it at all! 🙂
Wendy Williams
I need to ditch my cable too, but my husband loves it. I’m so glad it’s working out for you.
Kimberly
It’s always the husbands…lol
A Voracious Reader
Yay for ditching cable! We ditched DirecTv in 2009 (no cable here) and haven’t looked back. We need better internet though. It’s so frustrating to have no options for streaming besides AT&T and they are shit. I loathe monopolies and “territories”. I just want internet that’s faster then 5 Mbps! Grrrrr!!!!
Kimberly
Oh lord, that is awful. I won’t even tell you how fast ours is, but we are in the burbs with at least 5 different options. I always say I want to live in the country again…but I need high-speed internet.
MarthaE
Glad you had a good visit with your daughters. We try to minimize the cable or dish bill. We probably could if we used NetGalley or Roku which we don’t.
I hope you are all better from sinus issues.
I like all of your new books. Happy Reading!
Katherine
We didn’t have cable when we lived in Memphis and I was perfectly happy with just YouTube TV but our internet just isn’t quite reliable enough here to just rely on streaming but I’m considering giving it a try! Have a great week!
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
We have not missed cable one bit since we cut the cord.
ShootingStarsMag
Ooh How To Be a Badass Detective looks like a lot of fun!!!
Lauren
Cheryl @ I Heart Fictional People
I have been trying to get rid of cable too! I just can’t find anything cheaper with the same channels we watch. One day… Glad you had fun with your daughters! Have a great week!
Ronyell (a.k.a Rabbitearsblog)
Glad you had a fun time with your daughters! Hope you have a great week!
Mary Kirkland
I ditched cable a few months ago and saved myself $200 a month. Cable is crazy expensive for no good reason.
sherry fundin
i still have cable. do you have apps for things like netflix and any of the new streaming channel? how about your local channels, like cbs, abc…i watch so much on cable channels, i wonder what it would cost to still have them. glad you enjoyed time with your family
Kimberly
We were paying for cable but also have Prime, Netflix, Disney+ so we were paying for both and a DVR box. Plus an extra $49 for unlimited cable. We ditched the cable bill which was over 300 a month… and have Fiberoptic, unlimited internet for $60. (fixed for life) and added a few channels. We’re spending close to $400 and now pay $127 total. It’s like a car payment… which is the exact words I used to get my husband to agree. Now he tells everyone about how fast his internet is, and was surprised that all of our neighbors ditched cable years ago. Smh.
Kimberly
Local channels come in via a digital antenna, (so free)
vvb
Yay for family time. And happy reading.
Jinjer
Ahhh good for you!!!! I’m going to drop cable…er, Satellite Dish, as soon as I can figure out if and how I can still get Mom’s local (small town Arkansas) evening news and her Golf channel. That’s all she watches and since she’s 94 years old I don’t want to take anything away from her just to save money, ya know? There’s gotta be a way to get those two, I just need to take the time to research.
Kimberly
Check out digital antennas (inside and outside) https://amzn.to/3zeM7Di . Also YouTube TV ($69 a month offers all sports) The nice part you can use App during season and delete the rest of the year. We have friends who get it for football and cancel after. No hassle, no contracts etc. Good luck!
Sophia Rose
Fun times that you got with your daughters and neat that you could ditch cable and save some moolah.
Have a great week, Kimberly!
Anne - Books of My Heart
Glad to hear you had the family time and aren’t missing cable. I never got cable. It just seemed like a ripoff and I couldn’t watch everything I wanted on broadcast tv even
Victoria A Hamel
Glad you had a fun night with your daughters! How to be a Baddass Detective sounds like a fun read!
Samantha
Yay for time with your daughters! That is great!
Erin @ Cracker Crumb Life
Ooo that Badass Detective book looks awesome!!
Lisa Mandina
I really need to cut the cable cord. But there are just a few channels I still watch, including local channels. I need to figure out how to use the antenna thing I have so that I can cut the cable. Because yes, the bill is ridiculous! Good for you!
M. Ravenel
Ditching cable was the best thing I ever did. Unfortunately, with all these streaming services popping up, it’s starting to cost as much as cable.
Lori Caswell
I think I need to get and read How to be a Badass Detective as soon as possible.
I am so happy you had fun with your daughters.
Have a great week!!
Lola
That sounds fun you spent Friday night with your daughters! And that’s great you could save so much money by ditching the cable. I hope you’ll have a great week!
Lark @ The Bookwyrm's Hoard
How lovely to have an evening with your daughters!
We ditched cable years ago, and rarely miss it. (Except I do miss PBS. We are too far away from cities to get decent TV reception.) We spend a bit on streaming services, but not as much as the cable bill.
Have a lovely week!
Jessica @ a GREAT read
Nice! Glad you a good time with your daughters! Social interactions these days feels so important!
Nice new reads! Those are new to me ones but I hope you enjoy them all!
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Have a GREAT day!
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Michelle@Because Reading
That is what I want to do but I can’t get my husband to agree. He needs to watch his sports even though I told him he can still get them. He wont listen, I did cut back on what we have so that helped a lot! 🙂
Have a great week, Kim! Happy Reading! xx
Kimberly
This was my issue for years.. My husband and his sports. I complained when the cable hiked our bill last month and he said, cancel it. I had a new service ordered in 5 mins and three days later it all happened. We can stream different services to get the sports he wants. Unlike cable you can drop services during months you don’t need them. Now you live in Jersey and should be able to use an antenna to get Philly sports which is all my hubs cares about..lol.
Sara @ Book Confessions
We ditched cable about two years ago and never looked back. There’s nothing we can’t find on the internet these days, lol. Happy reading.
Natalie @Natflix&Books
I’ve been having major internet/tv issues all summer, which has led to me mostly just reading all day over watching tv which has definitely been good. Happy reading!
Diana @ Book of Secrets
How to be a Badass Detective looks fun!
Tessa
I got The Maid this week too. Doesn’t it look good? I can’t wait to start it ❤️ Hope you have a great week – happy reading!
Nicci @ Sunny Buzzy Books
We ditched cable/satellite years ago and don’t miss it. We have various streaming services that meet any kind of viewing needs we have… Basically, as long as we have an internet connection we’re all happy, lol. 🙂
Hope you have a good week!
RO
Yay to spending time with family! And very cool to ditching cable. I got rid of it, except for the Internet, and total savings are $1680 per year. AND I get even more channels now than I had before. Cable prices are truly outrageous, and you’d think they’d lower them with so many people cutting the cord these days. Sending lots f hugs, RO
Mareli @ Elza Reads
Hi Kimberly! We haven’t had the South African version of cable for 4 years now. I don’t feel as if I miss a thing! We still have Netflix and that’s more than good enough!
Have a good week ahead and take care of yourself.
Elza Reads
Hannah
Oof yeah, we never picked up our version of cable, the cost is just way out there, especially in the days of Netflix!
Tanya @ Girl Plus Books
Every few months we talk about how ridiculous our cable bill is and that we should look into alternatives. Hasn’t happened yet. lol
merripen
I honestly don’t have cable. I just pay for internet, Netflix, Paramount +, and then watch things on Youtube. Glad you’re happy with the switch!
Jen at Introverted Reader
How fun to spend time with your daughters!
We gave up cable years ago and rarely miss it. But it’s easy to add so many subscription services that we might as well have a cable payment! Not really but we do have to keep an eye on that.
Enjoy your week!
Rachel
We haven’t had cable for a long time now. Just YouTube TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Max. I don’t miss cable.
Maureen @ Maureen’s Books
That sounds like a wonderful Friday Night. And I’m happy to read you guys aren’t missing the cable 😉
Have a great week and happy reading.
Greg
That’s a long time, but honestly I quit cable too a while back and don’t miss it much. I mostly watch Netflix and Prime now. there are times though when I miss just having certain shows on in the background, like the Weather Channel lol…
RO
The weather channel in the background sounds super fun, Gorgeous Greg!(lol)
Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews
Enjoy your books and have a great week!
Laurel-Rain Snow
What a great week for you! Enjoy the changes and your books, and stay safe.