Just as a quick recap for those of you who may have just start following along, this week I’m sharing how we live on less. First I shared our mission and philosophy to live on less and then yesterday how we eat on less.
Today we’re moving right along to entertainment. I feel like we need some dramatic music, so here we go…
Okay, now we’re ready to move on.
Monday I shared briefly how we stay happily entertained without a TV or stereo. We use to have a TV, but it was on the fritz so we left it when we moved. But we still get to watch our favorite shows thanks to the amazing world of the world wide web.
I have to make a quick confession: we have two radios, but they’re just in our alarm clocks. Does that count?
photo by just Luh
We watch all of our television on Hulu or YouTube. We make personalized radio stations on Pandora. Rent movies from RedBox and make the most out of our library system.
There’s a variety of sources out there for your viewing and listening pleasure.
- Pandora & Last.fm
- Internet radio that you can customize to your taste. Few commercials, thumb up or down songs, plays songs based on your likes, dislikes, and musical style of those songs.
- A kind of radio that customizes music to your taste
- Lala
- First 25 songs are free
- You can listen to the full song before you buy
- Unlimited web page is $.10, download for $.79 and compatible with Windows Media Player & iTunes (but cheaper than iTunes!)
- RedBox
- A $1 dvd rental (even blue-ray rentals)
- Keep it for 24 hours for a buck…each day is $1 plus tax.
- Lots of movies, conveniently located at grocery stores, drugstores (Walgreens, etc), and even McDonald’s!
- Hulu & Fancast
- Free TV and (some) movies in high quality.
- Some shows have a few days (up to a week) delay.
- You Tube
- Mostly amatuer hilariousness.
- Lots of full-length Masterpiece Theater/period drama pieces.
- Full music videos from recording artists.
- Great place to watch movie trailers.
- Cancel the Cable (Your Guide to Free TV)
- I heard about this recently on NPR.
- Gives you directions on the different ways to get free TV at home: over the air (antennas, USB/HDTV tuners), internet tv (free, pay, internet TV devices), PC to TV, and more.
- As we don’t have cable I can’t vouch for the in’s and out’s of this site personally.
- Your Local Library
- Movies, Books, Music – all for free!
- Make use of interlibrary loan
How do you save on entertainment? Are there any good sites out there I’ve missed?
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