After Kara and I moved into our house in October of 2007, we decided to move most of our stuff into the garage and slowly move everything into the house. First we moved in all of the essentials, Kitchen appliances, furniture, toys for the kids etc…, then we would move in the non-essentials slowly.
As time moved on, the television was not moved in, and we noticed that we didn’t notice it so much, and we really didn’t miss it much either, so we thought we would leave the television in the garage. It is still there after a year, and it is still not missed, by Kara, myself, or the boys.
What this year of television is NOT
Many Christians who get rid of their television get all self-righteous about it and talk about how the peons who still have a television are unintelligent couch potatoes, but I find that this is not true of many television watchers. So us ridding ourselves of our TV is not an attempt to raise our intelligence level or holiness status above any other person.
Many Christians who rid themselves of their television do so out of fear of culture and out of wanting to bubble themselves into their homes and stay far away from the negative effects of media. While I agree that there is a lot of junk on the television, this is not our attempt to hide from evil or culture.
We are not on a television “fast” either. If we are at someone’s house and the TV is on, we don’t run and hide, or anything like that.
We simply wanted more simplicity and silence as a family, and this is our choice on how to do so. And it has certainly worked. We love life after TV, and we have no plans to go back any time soon. We love the simplicity and silence that it brings to our home.
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