My Rent Went Up So the Cable Had to Go to Make Up The

Agreed that "something needs to be done..." but what? You and I can do precious little, other than finding more and more ways to cut expenses. If you have a DVD player, you can borrow movies from the library, or if not, there are a lot of things you can watch on the internet. A lot of regular shows are on, just a day or week late. Go to ABC or NBC or CBS and look for them. As long as you have a computer and internet connection, you don't have to do without. And there's always youtube! I've been without cable TV myself off and on. I have it now, but it really costs more than it's worth to me, so I might get rid of it again.

May be you can sell your HD 48" TV in the garage sales on Sunday to make up for the increase in rent due, at least your big screen will not need to be left in dark all the time with a new owner. Talking about rent, my new rent is up again after the old lease expire at end of this month, the office manager claim that this property company is not making money from us by charging the tenant only $550 a month on a one room apartment unit, she can barely break even after deducting the management fee and monthly expenses of the complex. I can 'truly' understand her pain of having to manage an apartment complex without the power to increase the rent on tenant.

It's hard times right now. We have been making small cutbacks for the past few years, and normally live pretty frugally, so it's been difficult. Hopefully the economy will improve.

If you have internet you can always watch tv online. There are several webpages that will stream the tv shows for you. Some of them are www.hulu.com and of course the actual web page for what ever channel you want to watch. Not to mention there are some dvd players that will let you hook up to the internet and watch shows from netflix and hulu on them. I used to do that and it was all free for me. I spent the 15 dollars to get the hdmi cord for my lap top and hooked it up so that I would not have to pay for cable. It works amazingly well. If you dont have a hdmi port or your computer you could always get a svideo cord and hook it up that way. The only problem with a svideo cord is that it will not let your tv play the sound so a set of speakers might be needed for that. Other wise you are good to go and you can watch what ever you want to watch with no problems. Good luck I hope that your bird will forgive you :).

My sister and her husband got rid of cable but they kept netflix and hulu that costs only $17.00 a month or so she says. Or you could just get basic cable with no movie channels. It would be something to watch. I am so sorry you have to get rid of things and be inside all day. It is just like me i am unemployed and hubby's pay check only pays the bills. We have noting left for fun. I guess its just life and how life is right now.

Hi there Adoniah, With reference to your post, mostly fifty percent of our income goes to rent. so if this expense rise up, surely it will do a great effect to our earnings. hence, we should really do an adjustments to cope up on our daily and monthly expenses.

I agree something definitely needs to be done, but there doesn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel, things just keep getting worse, and the government are doing no good by sticking their heads in the sand and hoping the problem goes away, well it won't. The government has responsibility for it's people. I hope you manage to get cable, I couldn't imagine going without cable or the television, and if I stayed in too much I'd get cabin fever for sure.

It's all just a vicious circle....now gas is back up again. Go figure. Wonder why it had to go up almost 50 cents again. For those who have to drive to work well that is just a pain...my cable went up too so I went to direct tv. I got a good deal locked in for 5 years..you might what to check an option like that.

so true, with the price of things going up, we need to sacrifice those that are not needed.

hard time now for biz, people and even government. my place is on rising too, product like groceries, parking, and even toilet is happen too. i am about to find public toilet to pee and when i find one, and about to went inside i all sudden hear voice called to put $0.30 in the desk before went inside. my mood to pee all sudden die and i just walk away from there

iam sorry for the lose of your cable i dont know in you have a dvd or vcr that may help and for the lovely bird try a radio and on a personal not i too am in ssi and i had to move to mexico and give up living in the states