Cutting the Cable (TV)

My wife surprised me a little while ago by approaching ME with an idea that I had been toying with for a while but never suggested to her because I thought she'd hate it:


"Could we save money if we canceled our cable subscription and just did Netflix instead?"


Well, yes! Yes we could. With our special "we want to keep you as a customer so we'll lower your cost for 12 months" rate having just expired a decent internet connection and standard cable package was now running us about $120 a month. Ouch. The plan was then to sign up for Netflix and Hulu Plus, get a Roku player, and see how it worked out. This was a bit of a leap of faith for us, since we'd never used Netflix before, and I'd only tried Hulu online. If we stuck with it, though, we'd be keeping an additional $45 or so each month, so it was well worth it!