How would I go about quitting watching TV?

[.Mikha'el.]

If the OP is really serious about this, the place I would start would be to turn it off unless there's something really interesting on.

 

[AnneY]

There are a few different ways you can go about quitting TV. Cancel any subscriptions you have and sell your TV. If that's too much too fast, go slow, cancel one at a time. One month cut out Netflix, the next Hulu, etc until all you have left is cable, then cancel that. If you want to quit all forms of entertainment, then the internet itself is next. And then it's your cell phone. Basically take yourself off-grid.

However, I believe just using self-control regarding entertainment is the best policy. You can still watch what you enjoy, just give yourself limitations. Have a set number of hours you watch any entertainment per day/week, and this will include TV and streaming on the internet. You need to figure out why you want to quit TV and set yourself a goal to reach, whether it's cutting all entertainment out completely or just setting yourself boundaries.

Personally, I have cut out all entertainment subscriptions. The only "TV" I watch is on DVDs or whatever I can watch free on youtube. I had done this to save money during a rough time and now that I can get the subscriptions back, I've chosen not to, just because I get enough entertainment from what I already have plus youtube.

 

[philadelphos]

I find that I would like to start the next decade of my life off right by quitting watching TV. Anyway what is your best advice to quit watching TV?

Power on. Power off. Simple.

Or better, sell your possessions and follow Christ (per the mantra in Luke 18). - In a decade's time you'll sense what you lack, buying back what you miss, or already learnt to live without. I did this and it's been working. One of the best things I've done. Regaining willpower, independent thought, critical thinking, etc.

Television is devil-vision. Apart from obvious reasons, I find the commercial TVs auto programming and instant gratification rots the head like this Roald Dahl poem describes, https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/television/.

Quitting TV allowed me time and energy to read every book, article, journal, I could digest. Spending months reading Scripture and seeing things I'd never bothered to in the past. Our multiple LED/plasma TVs also became obsolete during that time making it easier, thank God.

A decade later, I watch 'TV' again, but selectively and now on a large projector screen in a theatre room, only films and shows I choose to stream/download. And almost always socially, as bonding time with my dad for example. I've found the low reflectivity of a projector and sitting in a dark room for a couple hours before bed (as opposed to burning one's retinas staring at a bright LED screen) makes falling asleep easier and sleep is deeper also. Less tossing and turning with images burnt into the back of the eyelids so to speak.