Maximize Your Monthly Budget Part Three (The Internet.)

Maximize Your Monthly Budget Part Three (The Internet.)

By

R.D. Swartz

The internet and computers have come a long way since the days of simple emailing, pictures and using word to write letters. The amount of information, entertainment, phone services, TV, news and college education is just overwhelming and growing day by day. At his point in time TV on the internet is growing leaps and bounds and every network has live feeds on their websites as well as back episodes of their shows to watch 24/7. If you have or want to have internet in your home and if you use it thoroughly you can save money on eliminating some unneeded costs each month.

It’s not what you can do with the internet at home but what cant you do. It is a tool like any other and if used properly you can benefit greatly by it. As I mentioned before if you do not watch TV a lot or most of what you watch you can find easily on the internet then why do you need cable or satellite TV especially if you need to cut money somewhere in your monthly budget.

My favorite site is Hulu it is just an incredible free TV watching website that has a lot of great TV shows to see. There are many more and here are some of them. Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, MTV Music, TNT, Nickelodeon, SciFi, Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, TBS, Disney Channel, TLC / Discovery / Animal Planet, Comedy Central, TVLand. You can also find internet only networks and here are a few of them.

MicroGuide, CNET TV, Gametrailers, Gamevideos, FearNet, Reuters, MicroGuide, Veoh, TV.com, Fancast, YouTube, Blip.TV, First on Mars, There are also many pay per view internet sites that offer deals that are cheaper than your local cable or satellite providers here are a few. Netflix, Amazon, Blockbuster, CinemaNow, MovieFlix, Bigstar, StarzPlay. And the list gets bigger every day and more and more entertainment is going online that can help you save money by having an internet connection.

Skype is an incredible free video phone service that you can call from computer to computer. It also lets you buy phone time to call from your computer to any home or mobile phone or you can purchase a local phone number and receive calls on your computer including texting, live computer games and more. There are others like Google Talk , Yahoo Voice and many more that you can look into to see if these services can save you money over a home phone and or mobile phone.

Take your list of your most watched TV shows from the part two article and search for the shows on the internet. What percentage of shows can you watch on the internet for free (besides the cost of internet service) and can you save money by cutting your cable or satellite service off? How many of the shows are also available on an antenna system that you can see on the internet? In the last article we will sum it all up and see how much money you can save.