How much TV do you watch?
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Anonymous
| Usually watch whatever local sports game going on, Nats, Wizards, Caps, Commanders etc, but do other things while it’s on. So probably 4 hours a day |
Anonymous
| I grew up without a tv (hippie parents) and I’m making up for it now. TV/streaming is SO good these days. I easily watch 2-3 hrs a night and on the weekends. I’m an empty nester with have tons of time so I still exercise, volunteer, cook, read, etc. but if you would have told me in my teens I would watch this much tv as an adult I wouldn’t have believed you. I do worry it’s too much but I often watch while walking on the treadmill so it makes me feel less guilty. |
Anonymous
same same same - I used to watch almost no TV, but my spouse LOVES TV and so I've gotten into it, too. We usually watch 1-2 hours on weeknights. Maybe twice that on weekends. We've been sick for the last two weeks so it's been a lot more. (I feel like sick time TV is the best TV.) I usually read a book while the TV is on - or maybe read like half the time. But I'm such a slow reader anymore. It takes me 1-3 weeks to get through most books. |
Anonymous
| Don't have TVs in our house. I read, a LOT. Kids are on phones or computers. Don't miss it. |
Anonymous
| Used to watch like 5 hours a day. With winter break I’ve watched maybe 1 movie with my spouse because I don’t watch when kids around! Have also started reading again. Read 5 books by reading evenings after kid bedtime and not watching TV. |
Anonymous
| I love TV. I watch a lot of it. You readers and 1-2 hours a day people are not my people. Movies, documentaries, limited series, sports, weather. It's great. LOL |
Anonymous
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Varies quite a bit depending on what DH and I are watching and whether it's football season. Watching football games is a very different experience than watching a scripted TV show -- we often put on football while we are cooking or cleaning, or we have people over and it's a social event. But the TV is on, so I guess it counts.
Non-football season: 60-90 minutes a night, probably 8 or 9 hours a week. Football season, especially after Thanksgiving: still 60-90 minutes a night but when you add in weekend football watching, it's more like 15-20 hours total because we will usually watch 2-3 games. But I don't know, even looking at this, it's not quite right. Because some nights one of us will watch a show while the other goes and reads or lays down with a kid who is having trouble falling asleep. So like it's rare for me to watch TV nightly even though someone watches TV most nights. But then over the holidays we watch a bunch of movies with the kids plus often watch TV or movies after they go to bed, so like the week of Christmas I might watch 3-4 hours in a single day, but that's because we're off work and school and it's cold and dark out. In the summer we watch way less TV because we want to be outside and it just doesn't sound as good, plus no football and there are fewer new movies and TV shows coming out that we want to watch. |
Anonymous
My TV watching has gone way down too. When I was in my 20s, if I wasn't going out with friends, I would just come home and watch like 3+ hours of TV. And then I'd still go read in bed. I just had more energy and I could go to sleep at 11 or 12 and still wake up at 7am for work. Plus I was single and lived alone so I would cook and eat dinner while watching TV. I loved binging series and I'd often binge TV on like a weekend morning if I'd been out late the night before. Life is just way different in your 40s with a spouse and kids. I basically only watch TV between 8pm and 10pm now and usually I just don't have time to watch more than an hour, because I have to do stuff around the house, finish up some work, do something for the kids, or I just get tired and can't watch because I will fall asleep. I both watch less TV *and* read less now than when I was younger. I need more sleep and have more obligations generally. Even when DH and I watch TV, one or both of us will fall asleep 15-30 minutes in at least half the time. I remember when Squid Game came out and everyone was talking about it, we tried to watch it and I never caught more than 20 minutes of an episode. I still don't actually know what that show was about. I'd wake up and something really gory and horrifying would be going on but I'd have no context so I'd just go to bed. |
Anonymous
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30 minutes of news in the morning
15 minutes of news at night. Sports when my college’s team is playing. I read otherwise. I stopped watching TV two years ago and now I read about 250 books per year. Amazing what you can do if you aren’t into TV and aren’t super big on social media. I also have another hobby, so it’s not like read is my only entertainment. |
Anonymous
| Too much lately. I'll watch anywhere from one to three hours of Netflix each night. |
Anonymous
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I watch college sports like football and basketball, and then one reality show (Love after Lockup) and that's about it.
Apparently there is a new "Joe Schmoe" coming out in a few weeks! I will definitely watch that. |
Anonymous
| Not as much as I want. Only about 1-2 hours a day. |