October 31st marked the end of year two of Cord Cutting in the Stapleton household.  I’m always evaluating what I’m doing, so two years in is a good time to pull some reports from Quicken and see how I did(who doesn’t categorize every transaction and can pull reports on demand). 
After reviewing the report it occurred to me I needed to rethink how I was calculating the spending on Cord Cutting. Â You see in my mind (yes inside my head is a glorious place to be) Cord Cutting only applies to replacing what you would get from Cable and I was lumping Jess’s baseball into that category. However the more I thought about it there is no cable package I could purchase to get her every single Royals game like I’m able to do using a combination of MLB.tv and Unlocator. Also to be honest I do love her and crap, so even if we had cable I would still be spending this money so I think it inappropriate to include it in the calculation.
So after backing out all of the expenses associated with Jess’s baseball, in two years we spent (drumroll) $877 or $36 a month for Cord Cutting. I have to say I’m pretty damned please.
We did make a couple of little changes when the Fall 2015 TV season started and I’ve updated the always up to date cord cutting guide to reflect those.
Conclusion:
As we are getting ready to relocate to Indiana I don’t see us changing course. We have settled into a nice routine with Cord Cutting. At this point I’m also happy I didn’t choose to rely on an over the air DVR for my cord cutting needs.  In Lincoln we are able to pick up about 25 channels including all the majors, but according to antenna web in Indiana we will only be able to get 2 channels.  If we want any more channels than that we would have to put up some pretty serious hardware.