Time for me to put her in a retirement home?
How much TV watching is too much? My mother says I watch too much but I think seven hours on each workday and 13 each day on weekends is not excessive.
I work retail so I’m on my feet all day at work. When I get home I like to park myself in front of the TV and put my feet up. Is there anything wrong with that? My Mom who lives with me harps at me constantly. She thinks I should take up a time-consuming hobby like knitting, cross-stitching or goldfish training. I’d rather just keep on absorbing TV rays.
Time for me to put her in a retirement home?
In my opinion there is no such thing as “too much TV”. There are all kinds of shows on that are both relaxing and educational; especially if you have access to all the obscure channels made available by major satellite TV providers.
However, your mother has the right to nag on you if you only watch shows where guys in plaid shirts pretend to do home repairs, “reality” TV shows, and soaps. In my most humble opinion these shows are the crack cocaine of TV programs. Nothing good comes out of watching those silly things… They will only make you mess up a perfectly good basement, live on popcorn kernels for a week, or make you feel inferior because you don’t have an astronaut-plastic-surgeon boyfriend.
Granted, knitting, cross-stitching, and goldfish training (unless you have the expensive Korean kind) are also a waste of time…
All this to say: it depends on what you spend your time watching! If you are watching any of the below TV channels, I would say that you are only furthering yourself!
Nut TV — The wondrous world of nuts, and all the beautiful ways they can be prepared and consumed. I bet you didn’t know that there is actually a nut that should be snorted!
Tepee Channel — Ever been worried about getting lost in the woods, having a power outage in midwinter, or getting lost at a Walmart? This is the survival channel of all survival channels! If you can make a tepee out of mundane things such as a toilet brush and a pair of boxer shorts — you can survive anything!
Fold TV — Folding “flat things” in to “useful things” will surely challenge anyone to find ways to improve the world!
Salami Vision — Did you know that there are over 10,000 different salamis in the world? There are also a quarter of a billion ways in which way they can be sliced, and folded! There are also endless ways in which they can be combined! This channel will keep you on your toes for decades!
MS TV — Mystery Smell TV will teach you everything you ever need to know about smells! Be it from picking up that perfect bottle of East Timor wine, finding buried corpses in your neighbour’s backyards or identifying people based on their cell scrapings.
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