As a cash-strapped gad student, I never even considered getting internet access set up at home. It’s just too expensive, and I can access it in so many places for free (the public library, my parents’ house, my work university, and my school university all have wireless) or nearly so (the little local coffee shop down the street will give me as many free hot water refills on my tea as I want, so I can make that $1.25 stretch for a loooong time).

Don’t have cable either. Expensive beer, on the other hand, somehow magically jumps into my car whenever I pass the liquor store.

We are creating a post-baby budget and when deciding what should go, the cable, DVR, and internet were never, EVER mentioned because I am not sure we could live that way. Not willingly. We are giving up HBO, going out, and expensive beer (among other things). But the internet, that stays.