Earlier this year, in an effort to reduce costs, we decided to get rid of our ridiculous cable bill and rely on a rooftop antenna for our television viewing pleasure. To do so, however, meant we had to upgrade our television sets (yeah I know, in order to save money we had to spend some money) to newer, sleeker, lighter, screens that would support high-definition. Instead of paying an obscene amount of money for two channels - our kids only watched Teletoon and Treehouse and we never had time or energy to watch anything - we are now paying $8 a month for Netflix. Not only has our monthly expense gone down considerably in this regard, our sanity has benefited. We are no longer bombarded with cries of "Can you buy me that? For Christmas? For my birthday? No, this toy! Hurry up and come see!" every ten minutes when the kids are watching a show. We've also discovered that both CBC and TVO has kids' programming in the morning without the inane commercials.
Generally, the children haven't really missed cable television. They've discovered that Netflix has a wealth of shows and movies, even those on cable. The Backyardigans, Max and Ruby, Dora and Diego, even SpongeBob (to my dismay). But alas, Aisling has discovered there is one show that's missing.
A few weeks ago, she asked what happened to our old television sets.
Me: Well, we gave one to Novelyn (our former nanny), and the other one to Grandma and Grandpa. Why?
Aisling: Can you please call Novelyn and ask her to bring back the tv?
Me: Why?
Aisling: Because the old tv had Toopy and Binoo in it, and this new one doesn't.
Then her face crumpled and she began to cry.
I guess I'm going to have find some Toopy and Binoo somewhere.
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