Do you Roku?

In a previous blog I mentioned that we got rid of cable. Cable TV kept raising their prices every other month and quickly exceeded our budget. The sad thing was we only had basic channels and we were paying $110.00 a month. That's a huge sum of money for TV. We watched our collection of DVD and VHS movies for a couple of months.

After we turned off cable we saved up our money and first bought digital TV antenna's for each TV in the house. This gave us back the 20 network stations in our area. It brought us ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS and quite a few others. Then we purchased Roku's for our main TV's.  With Roku we purchased the unlimited video streaming account from NetFlix for $90.00 a year. Roku also gave us Crackle for free and many many other free channels. They have cartoon, old movies, talk shows, news and sports channels. Pretty much everything the basic channels that cable have.

At that end of this year instead of spending $1320.00 on cable (based on $110.00 without an increase), we spent a total of $400.00. Out of the $400.00, $300.00 of it was on equipment that we now own. Next year we could either pay just for Netflix $90 or add another pay Streaming channel like Amazon Streaming or HuluPlus for an additional $90.00. Either way we are still ahead and saving money for other bills. We are very happy with our Roku's and wished we had found them years ago.