Taking the Downward Mobility Plunge

Taking the Downward Mobility Plunge April 30, 2016

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Great post over at Seedbed’s Faith and Work Collective a few days ago by Kevin Kinghorn on why he’s getting rid of TV. (At some point I hope that we’ll be able to reprint some of his posts from Seedbed directly here at MISSION:WORK.)

I pulled the cable plug myself in 2011….not because I was streaming everything, because we didn’t have home internet at the time, but because the cable provider yanked ESPN to a higher tier and ESPN was the only reason I had cable.  (Baseball is life, folks.)

At my current residence we have no cable and we have a cap on our monthly Internet (welcome to rural America, folks!) so I watch very little TV, mostly major sporting events and the weather. (And when I do, the commercials are SO LOUD!)  But I haven’t, as Kevin suggests, been giving away the money I would have spent on cable.

Here’s some of what Kevin had to say:

A year or so ago, Andrew Oswalt talked about a practical goal any person could undertake, as a step toward evading the grip of consumerism and materialism which clearly pervades our culture right now (and which inevitably will get a grip on us, if we don’t actively take steps to counter it). The goal—the challenge, really—is to identify one item you had planned to purchase in the current year. Then, purposefully choose not to make that purchase, instead giving the money away that you would have spent on that item. [Read more.]

 

 


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