Bedroom TV?

[Kitty 34]

My sister swears by her bedroom TV and is always trying to tell me to put one there. I'm fine with my living room one.

 

[Pucks104]

No TV in the bedroom ever!

 

[soccerdad72]

Our bedroom TV is one of the most used TVs in our house. We fall asleep with the TV on. I know, probably not advised by most doctors, but it works for us.

 

[sam_gordon]

I've had a TV in the bedroom since I was a young teen. It's our "white noise machine". However, we also use the sleep timer function, so it turns off on it's own. I hate when I'm at a hotel that doesn't have the sleep function on the TV.

 

[Colleen27]

I wish I could but DH would revolt. He likes to watch to fall asleep. I hate it because of his choice of content - mostly action movies or police dramas, so lots of quiet intense talking where he turns up the volume to hear clearly, followed by really loud explosions, crashes and shootouts. But I go to bed so much later than him most nights that I just turn it off when I go up and we both get what we want.

 

[DVC-Don]

We had one years ago, but realized that we never watched it so got rid of it 10 years or so ago.

 

[aprilchem]

We've never had a TV in our bedroom, or in any bedroom in our house.

 

[ronandannette]

I've never had a tv in my life bedroom or otherwise. I grew up in a very unusual house once I was adopted.

Not so unusual to not have a tv in your room but not ever having had a tv at all is. Nobody I knew had one in their room growing up. I’ve never had one myself, never had more than one tv in our home at any time. It wasn’t even a consideration to give DS one when he was a kid.

 

[antmaril]

I cannot sleep unless the tv is on. The only time I sleep without it is if I am traveling with a friend.

 

[DisneyHardin]

We have one in our bedroom, but it probably hasn't been turned on in about 3 years. I returned the cable box that was attached to it a couple years ago since we were paying a monthly fee for that.

 

[Meriweather]

I have one in my room. Only use it for my workout DVD
It is only connected to a DVD player and nothing else.

 

[mrodgers]

Was rarely used and when the kids got old enough (pre LCD) we put it in one of their rooms and never had one in the bedroom again.

By myself, I only have a TV in the living room.

 

[Kimkimba]

When we moved 18 years ago we did not put a tv in our bedroom. Great decision - our bedroom is for sleeping and sex.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Have never had one in my adult life. DH and I prefer it that way. We have one in the living room and one in our finished basement, mostly used by DS while he was growing up.

As a teen, I had one in my bedroom for a few years. It was an old 19” black and white set and I mostly watched night baseball games and Johnny Carson. Back then (pre-cable), tv stations used to sign off for the night, and I’d sometimes fall asleep and wake up to hear the national anthem, followed by a high pitched test tone, then static, and have to get up to shut it off (no remote). LOL, those were the days.

 

[neverlandsky]

So awesome to read the replies. Since we’re moving, we’ve decided to take the plunge and not have a TV in our bedroom anymore.

 

[spiders]

We used to for years but I was the only one who watched it. When we last moved, it was on my list of things to setup but then I never did. My iPad charges on my nightstand so if I ever want to watch something I just use that now. It is extremely unlikely we’ll ever go back.

 

[karmic]

Never had a bedroom TV growing up and don’t have one now

 

[CdnCarrie]

Never had one.
I read in bed.

ETA - 3 tvs in the house - living room, family room and finished basement.

 

[Pooh2]

Never had one!

 

[RedAngie]

We have a TV in the bedroom but it’s rarely used at night. I like to watch in the morning while getting ready for the day or when I’m doing laundry. Laundry room is upstairs on bedroom level.

I had a small B&W TV in my room since about age 7. Complete with rabbit ear antenna. UHF antenna was a hoop.