Frugal TV – How To Watch Shows For Free
Frugal TV – Why waste money on cable when you can watch practically any movie or TV show for free online? You don’t need to squeeze the family around your home computer either. You can easily hook up your computer to your TV with an inexpensive cable
and watch everything on the big screen.
You’ll need to check your tv and computer to make sure you get the right cable.
Now head over to hulu.com and choose what you want to watch. You can get an idea of what’s available by searching in the box below. Then click on the video to watch it! You will be taken to the hulu site, click the bottom left hand corner of the video to make it show in full screen.
The most Frugal TV is NO TV
It’s not just the cost of the monthly subscriptions that makes TV so expensive, it’s the effect that it has on you that really damages your bank balance.
Watching TV leaves people dissatisfied with what they have. The shows portray a world where glamorous people, lead exiting lives. Characters are always sipping coffee shop beverages and eating lunch and dinner everywhere except at their own dining table. And that is just not the frugal way!
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.” – Mark Twain
These are just a couple of the ways that TV alters our perceptions and before we know it everyone is trying to emulate the “desirable” lifestyles they see on TV
And that’s just the shows, never mind the in your face advertising of the commercials.
If adults can be so easily influenced, how does this all affect kids? Badly, that’s how!
Ever hear a brat kicking up a fuss with an “I want, I want”? Or have a teenager making your life a misery until you give in and buy them the latest thing? It’s all TV induced.
The goal of the advertising industry is to increase our desire for stuff – to change our attitude from one of indifference about a product or service, to one that makes us grab our credit card and join the rest of the throng, screaming “I must have it NOW”. They are so good at what they do that we don’t even realize we are being brainwashed. Subconsciously, they take control of our desires, our wallets, and our lives.
If you are the kind of person who like to read, you will be amazed at what you can learn from reading a few marketing books. They lay out the tactics (tricks!) used to dupe us every day. Learning their secrets is a great way to “know your enemy” and make yourself less susceptible to their efforts. Here is a good one to get you started
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
