Year 3 of cord cutting ended on 10-31-16 and how did we do? Â Pretty well!
Looking Back on Two Years of Cord Cutting
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. Continue reading “Looking Back on Two Years of Cord Cutting”
Adventures In Cord Cutting
Since announcing last fall that we had cut the cord, I have been repeatedly asked how things are going, what I use, etc. Â So here we go!
