Escaping TV's Stifling Grip

We reached the breaking point with our cable finally. We've been paying nearly $130 every month for the enjoyment of 160 channels that we don't watch nor want. Granted, $43 of that bill is our cable modem, with which we cannot part, but the rest is pure fluff. We're dropping down from the package we have now—every channel they offer, including pay channels like HBO—to just the basic stuff, like local channels. The cable guy should be at our house sometime between 2 and 5 (what's with those abnormally long windows of time, anyway?). The net result of this change is an extra $65 in our pockets every month.

All of this is happening much to SD's chagrin; she insists there simply cannot be quality of life without cable. Her biggest sticking point is South Park, which is an awesome show, I agree, but for the past 5 months we've mostly forgotten to watch it. So, really, is not having it available, and not remembering to watch it, all that different? I think that in a month she'll wonder why she was so concerned about it in the first place.