I hate weekends...

Maybe search around and settle on some shows. If you give it some time you might look forward to them.
 

I wouldn't have the TV on all night now.. but when I first got married..in 1676.. ( it seems that long ago)..:D I moved from a very noisy household into a house alone ( new husband was in the Navy and at sea for weeks or months on end ).. and it was soo quiet, I couldn't sleep! I was just used to being able to sleep with all the noise of a 6 person household going on, so that was my solution.. to have the TV on .. to hear voices so I could sleep.

It took me about 2 years to break the habit !
 
Ron watches TV in bed and I play on my phone…social media, paint programs, games etc. He falls asleep to the TV and if he wakes up in the night, he’ll turn the TV on so that he can get back to sleep. I’ve learned to just sleep through those times.
 
I used to fall asleep with the TV on but for the past decade or so I have listened to podcast to fall asleep to. As far as the weekend schedule goes, that is one of the many things I do not miss about broadcast TV.
 
I don't like weekends either.....I don't get out, because the stores are too crowded and I agree about nothing much on TV....I spend a lot of weekend time trying to find movies that I like.
 
hollydolly said:
I wouldn't have the TV on all night now.. but when I first got married..in 1676.. ( it seems that long ago)..:D I moved from a very noisy household into a house alone ( new husband was in the Navy and at sea for weeks or months on end ).. and it was soo quiet, I couldn't sleep! I was just used to being able to sleep with all the noise of a 6 person household going on, so that was my solution.. to have the TV on .. to hear voices so I could sleep.

It took me about 2 years to break the habit !
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Boy I sure can relate to that. The year I graduated high school my father who had retired from the navy and been working civil service, moved with the rest of my large family down to Long Beach when the shipyard in San Francisco closed. Only my older brother and myself stayed on in South San Francisco. Sleep wasn’t an issue but I’d just started community college and I was having trouble reading and studying in such a quiet house. My solution was to take my books and all to the food court at the local mall, buy something to sip and work amid the clatter and chatter.
 
debodun said:
I need the TV on to sleep and find it difficult to choose a program that suits me to watch while I wait for sleep to descend.
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I used to do that, living alone in the mid-late 90s. Actually having the TV going is one of the things not recommended for sleep.
Here's some very good suggestions for falling asleep quickly: medicalnewstoday
There are devices available that will play a variety of "white" or "pink" music that lulls you to sleep: amazon.com/s?k=pink+sleep+sound

I have a HEPA filter in the the bedroom, the fan on low provides a "white" sound that works like one of the sleep-sound devices.
 
Nathan said:
I used to do that, living alone in the mid-late 90s. Actually having the TV going is one of the things not recommended for sleep.
Here's some very good suggestions for falling asleep quickly: medicalnewstoday
There are devices available that will play a variety of "white" or "pink" music that lulls you to sleep: amazon.com/s?k=pink+sleep+sound

I have a HEPA filter in the the bedroom, the fan on low provides a "white" sound that works like one of the sleep-sound devices.
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Thanks for that link of sleep suggestions. I’ll check them out. Sometimes a different technique helps. I need to revisit the military one.
 
I like it dark and quiet when sleeping, and cherish the peacefulness.

When I was little and growing up, my abusive dad would leave the tv and/or radio blasting out all of the time, usually with the news, even when he was outside in the yard. I spent a great deal of time either gone from the house, or else in my room with the door closed.

A few decades ago I was sleeping upstairs at night when visiting my Mom, Dad and brother in Texas and kept hearing a loud radio playing in the distance outside, opened the window and realized it was coming from the barn. Trying to sleep through the loud noise was no use, so I got dressed, went downstairs and outside to the barn, turned off and unplugged the radio, went back in the house upstairs and to sleep.

The next morning my dad asked if I'd turned off the radio. I said yes; why did you have the radio on in the barn???
He said, so the horses could sleep. :rolleyes: Fortunately he left it off for the rest of my visit.
 
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I have the tv on all the time whenever Huzz isn't home; I figure it's a good thing for me to get used to noise since it'll be noisy in the rest home (unless I luck out and die before having to go into a rest home).
 
I sleep with the fan on my air cleaner on low. I don’t know how anyone can sleep with the tv on because the noise is inconsistent. I know people that leave the tv on all day for company while I enjoy the blessed silence unless actually watching it.
 
I run a white noise CD at night. I need something that is consistent noise.

But I agree with deb, nothing much on TV on the weekends and I don't have anything premium or Netflix or anything like that right now.
 
debodun said:
from a television perspective. It seems there's nothing of interest to me that's broadcast on weekends. I need the TV on to sleep and find it difficult to choose a program that suits me to watch while I wait for sleep to descend.
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I'd start watching congressional debates..... Funny aside. A cable company was finding it hard to collect on service turnoffs, so instead of turning it off. They made EVERY channel C-SPAN and congressional meetings were on.

They dropped to a 4% delinquent rate.....
 

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