I just got my latest cable/internet bill. Arrrgggghhhh. Total due: $93.00, for one month. It seems my discount for broadband has expired after 6 months (like they said it would). This is the second time I’ve received the discount and the woman told me that they wouldn’t be able to lower it after the last time because I’d received a full year of internet service at $29.99. So, now, I’m paying full price for broadband, and paying $44 for basic analog cable service (with the few extra channels like Discovery, ESPN etc). This just feels like highway robbery. $93 a month feels so high and I know I’m not paying as much as many other people.
Quite honestly, it’s tempting to call them and lower the cable down to just our few local channels. I’d love to do that for the price, but I just can’t bring myself to give up the key channels that we watch: Discovery, TLC, Comedy Central, TBS etc. While we are watching some local channels, we do spend a lot of our time, or I should say, our Tivo spends most of it’s time, recording channels farther up the dial.
So, what to do, what to do? I guess, for now I’m going to suck it up and try not to pay attention to it. Maybe I should just set this one up on autopay just so I don’t have to see it. Yeah, I know. That would be kind of ignorant of me to avoid looking at my expenses. Anyway, I just had to rant a bit about it. There are so few options to get out of paying this that I guess I shouldn’t sweat it. It still doesn’t make it pleasant though.