11 days!!

I can’t believe that the wedding is only 11 days away now!! Things are moving right along and we have almost everything done!

It has been a little over a week since we got rid of the cable and DVR and I’m not missing it at all. I can still watch all the shows I used to record and watch. Plus I’ve started watching some shows that I may not have seen every episode of, such as Reba and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. My future-sister-in-law got me into Grey’s Anatomy and I finally finished the first season of it and am on the second!

This is a busy week for me with work. I’m subbing every day this week with today being my only half day. Then I also work my second job every night this week, except for last night. Then on Saturday I have a vendor show with Scentsy all day. Saturday night I’m going out with B and some of his friends to celebrate a 21st birthday, so that should be fun! After that I work 3 more days and then I’m off for a week!!! I may not be bloggng that much within the next few weeks but I will definitely post all about it when I get the chance! Have a great rest of your week everyone!!

Goodbye DVR

So almost a year ago I wrote a post saying I was contemplating whether or not B and I should get DVR (click here to read that post). Then the day after I posted that, I posted another one (click here) saying that we weren’t getting it. But then about 4 months later we decided to get it because our cable company was having a special on it (read that post here).

As much as I love my DVR, it is time to say goodbye. B and I have been looking at ways that we can save money and getting rid of the DVR and cable is one way to do that. Yes, I said we are also getting rid of our cable. I just looked through my DVR the other day at all the shows I watch and record and realized that I can watch all of them online. So I thought, “why are we paying for cable and the DVR when I can just watch all my shows online?”

So…we already have a subscription to Netflix so we will use that a lot more. We are also going to get a subscription to Hulu Plus. Oh, and B is building a computer to hook up to the TV in the living room so we can watch Hulu and Netflix out there. He also ordered a device for the TV in our room so we can do the same thing. Yes it was a bit expensive for everything he had to order for those 2 things. But it will pay for itself in about a year and make it worth it.

One thing I was wondering about was how I was going to keep track of what shows had new episodes that I need to watch. Well…of course there is an app for that! The one I found is called TV Tracker.

At first I downloaded the lite version of it for free but you can only add 2 shows with that. So for 99 cents I upgraded to the full version. As you can see below, once you add your shows, the number in green on the right shows you how many episodes of that show you have to watch. (Yes I know, I’m WAY behind on the Vampire Diaries and Dancing with the Stars. I’ll get caught up with Hulu!)

Then when you click on the show, it will show the icon saying “The End” with an open curtain on the shows you have seen and a closed curtain on shows you need to watch still. This app is going to be so useful for me and maybe one of the best 99 cents I’ve spent on an app!!

So…starting on Saturday, B and I will no longer have our DVR or cable! But we’ll be ok…Hulu and Netflix are all we need. Oh and each other of course Have a great rest of your Wednesday everyone!!!

I have decided…

So, yesterday I wrote about how I was contemplating on getting a DVR or not. Well, after thinking about it  (and sleeping on it) I have made a quick decision…

We’re not getting it!!!!

It’s just not necessary and it’s an extra $14.90 per month that could be put towards the wedding. I’ve had people that commented telling me I shouldn’t get it and people saying I should get it. I was considering both sides here, but then I just decided I didn’t really need it. After the wedding and once we buy a house, then we can get DVR because we won’t be saving for a wedding. But right now, any extra money I have I want to either save for the wedding or save to put in my other savings so I can have some money to pay back my college loans.

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DVR…is it worth the extra $?

So just the other day I was thinking about how nice it would be to have DVR. Every Thursday I work 5-9, which means that my fiancé and I miss “Bones”. I don’t even know how many weeks we are behind!  We also miss “Raising Hope”. We can watch the episodes online, but sometimes the internet takes a while to load and it’s annoying to watch it on a small laptop screen. If we had DVR, then we could just hit a button and boom, our TV show is ready to watch. Right now we get the basic plus which is 77 channels. It costs $57.99 a month for that. The cheapest digital cable (Digital Gateway) costs $63.94 a month and then with the DVR that’s an extra $8.95 per month. So when you do the math, it would be $14.90 more per month than what we pay now. So I gotta think about this. That $14.90 per month could be saved and put towards the wedding. Our wedding is about 2 years away, so say we save that much for about…a year and a half, 18 months, that would be $268.20. So really, that’s not too terribly much, but it’s still something. And having the DVR will allow us to watch more of our shows. Which I guess you could say that watching more TV isn’t really necessary, but I think it would be really nice. So what do you think? Is the DVR a waste of our money or do you think it’s a luxury that we deserve? Leave me your comments and let me know what you think!

Oh, one more side not, I’m going to start couponing, so maybe the savings that we make at the grocery store will make up for the extra $14.90 a month we’d be paying for DVR, just a though.

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