TV Guide

Since the 1960's my family always had the TV Guide delivered to our house. It was the most awaited piece of literature we read. Those were the days before magazines like People and Us. We received our Hollywood news in a weekly installment. The Guide had the listings of the week's shows and one or two articles about the actors. I remember the feeling of being the first one to read it because the pages were still adhered to each other. A few years ago my local newspaper started to print a weekly television guide, so we stopped the TV Guide subscription. It was hard to "break up" with the TV Guide, but why pay for something that was now free. When we switched our television service to cable we found a TV guide channel that allows you to scroll through a log and find out what is playing. We no longer removed the newspaper guide, as scrolling was so much easier. Each week as the new guide arrived we would replace it with the old guide. When we decided to no longer use the paper version, no one replaced it. The old one just remained there. We were all too lazy to remove it from the end table and throw it out. So there it is, since October 22, 2011. It had now become an accessory in the den. After 10 months we are so used to it that I do not think it will ever be tossed out.