Being senior citizens and retired , we find ourselves having more time to watch TV. So we have reduced our costs in other areas to allow us to have the best TV service. We have stopped going to the movies. We use to go once a week and spend with refreshments about $30 per week . So that saves us about $120 per month. We just wait for the movies to show up in our premium packages. We also fired our landline phone company and went to an in home cellular phone service. That saves another $60 per month. We changed our cell phone service by dropping data and text packages and going to a basic cell phone . We save another $60 per month. We communicate with friends and relatives via phone, email, and social networks via the internet. We also have stopped going to expensive sporting events and concerts. Dropping season tickets to the local college team has saved us over $800 and we did not miss seeing a game this year. They were all on TV. When the college coach started to get paid 5 times what the University Chancellor receives , we just had had enough. We use to go to about 4 concerts per year. However, when those ticket prices went above $100 per seat we stopped. There is another $800 per year savings. So we have saved more than enough to cover our Dish TV service.
