TV - you dont actually need one these days. Yes I intend on getting one, but to be honest, I have now been without a TV for a month now, and I dont miss it at all.

I used to come home from work, get some juice/water/beer/milk and go watch TV. I watched two and half men and family guy, must of seen every episode. I remember being dissapointed when they ended at 8:00, and nothing I wanted to watch was on. I would say, this is the time when having cable would be nice. I'd say I watched an average of 2 hours of TV a day, that means 1/12 of every day of my life was spent sitting in front of TV watching the same thing.

If I live to be 80 (fat chance if I watch that much TV every day) I will have watched TV for almost 7 years (6.67 actually) of my life. That is ridiculous. 7 years . In financial terms, say I earn the US median income of $52,000, 7 years means $347,000 over the course of my lifetime, watching TV.

In the Ukraine, the GDP per capita (not the median income) is $6,900 a year. That means that the time I spend watching TV would be the equivalent of 50 years of labor for a Ukrainian.

Let me say that again in a different way.

First some statistics:

Ukraine

Per Capita GDP - $6900

Life expectancy (male) - 62.7

A Ukrainian (not some poor backwards developing nation in south east Asia or Africa) may start working at age 13 and work until they are 63, when they drop dead and only earn as much (in their entire lifetime) as I have squandered away watching reruns of two and a half men.

So...is that TV show really worth the same amount to you as an entire Ukrainian life of labor?

I just moved, bought a place, and since I am lazy, everything is still in boxes, so there is no room for a TV. I have spent a few hrs here and there watching tv shows on Hulu, but I spent far more reading. If I hadn't dropped a radiator on my foot, I probably would of gone for more runs. I have cooked more, cleaned more and generally felt better, so take that TV.