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  1. 01-25-2009, 12:09 PM #1
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    Question Anyone for a "NEWS FREE WEEK"?...

    the news has already been depressing, but this week is looking to have the "WORST economic reports in a decade"...anyone want to join me for a "news free week"? I'm only going to go on the weather, the HER2, Frugal Village and Magical Holiday Home forums...I want a happy week Take care and God bless.
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    ~I'm on my last day of a news free week. I do it a few times a year along with cutting back my computer time in general and it is very helpful. Too much information on the same subject can be really toxic.~
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    I have mixed feelings on this one. I have been essentially news free for years on end at times, hearing none, seeing none. Generally, the news is not where I live my life, and it's been good.

    On the other hand, with things in such disarray as they are at present, I feel like I need to keep up with at least the headlines, if not all the grisly details. So I won't be obsessing over it, but I'm sure I'll listen to some on my days off work, and will at least check in on a news site when I'm at work.

    But I definitely applaud you for doing it, and 95% of the time, I'd be whole heartedly with you. It's just that for me, personally, now is falling in that other, admittedly rather depressing, 5%.
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    I live my life news free. I stopped watching the news some years ago when I realized it was nothing but bad news. I don't feel I've missed out on anything - or anything good that is! If it's real important and I really need to know I'll hear about it some other way. It has made my life much nicer.
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    Yep, I'm nearly news free as well. In fact I've laughed lately: dh will say "did you hear such and such on the news today?" I laugh cause there have been a few times where I say "yea, I saw it on the village".

    So, now I say, "I get my news from the village".

    Really, if it;s important enough it'll find me....otherwise, it;s just way too depressing - I cannot change it, so why stew on it?
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    I would like to try this....and I am a news junkie. It is bothering me that there is hardly anything positive in the news anymore. So I will depend on the FV to keep me uptodate if there is anything important in the news this week.
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