> I just had a momentary burst of willpower that allowed me to get rid of it.

Actually it's taken many bursts of willpower for my family to stay TV free. People keep pushing them on us as soon as they find out we don't have one. My brother in law sent us one for christmas one year despite being told we didn't want one. We gave it away. And it seems like every scond person has an old they want us to have because "you can't not have a TV!"