No TV in my bedroom. The only time we spend in there is sleeping.
I assume you use the Red Room for other things.
The kitchen is the sex room.
A gentleman never tells!
Exactly this. Preferably also no phone, but since they are easier to move around it happens...
I already have a magical rectangle my dumb ass likes to look at already. I don't want another.
"No screens in the bedroom" was supposed to to help me sleep better years ago, it didn't really matter if they're in there or not but I still keep to the rule.
We listen to music, read, has the sexes and other things but no TV in the bedroom. Always a rule for us.
We have no tv. None.
No TV in the bedroom, just the living room. I do find comfort at times from a soft livestream, but I normally sleep better in quiet darkness.
I understand the hard-line approach, but for me it's situational. A laptop for those times is sufficient.
No TV in the bedroom! That's for rich people, like people who have ice makers in the fridge and the whiring blades in the sink!
Ew no. Absolutely not. TV in the bedroom is the antithesis of sleep hygiene.
Me nodding sagely to this comment as I scroll in bed
For heavens sake, no. There is a TV in the living room, and a small one in the studio. A TV does not belong in any bedroom.
Especially not a modern "smart" TV with built-in microphones...
Embarrassed to let it hear you wanking?
One of the few things we agree on with my spouse is not having a TV in the bedroom. The TV in the living room and our PCs are enough, the bedroom is for sleeping.
No TV in the bedroom for me. No need, really. The bedroom is for sex and sleep, nothing else.
Exactly. Not even phones allowed. Pitch black darkness during the night. Best sleep ever.
No TV at all, and no social media other than federated platforms and YouTube these days, and I only use alternative no algo clients for YouTube. If I hear about something to watch, I sail the high seas, find it, watch it. If I like it, it goes into my backups.
One of these days I might buy an old ass TV and set up a JellyFin server, but I'm fine with my 1080p monitor. I only watch like 2 shows at a time max, and keep up with like 5 or 6 YT channels. No time and no need for others.
Admittedly, my computer is in my bedroom though. I always have had my computer in my bedroom though, so that's just a personal taste thing.
In smaller places, yes. It was the video game window.
In bigger places later on no. Bedroom is for sleeping.
Yes and no.
Occasionally I like to fall asleep to SNL or a football game in the fall, but my bedroom is also haunted and the ghost likes to turn the TV on at weird times, so I leave it unplugged the vast majority of the time.
We've generally avoided a TV in the bedroom. When we were given a second hand TV from a family member that was better than our living room TV, we mounted the old TV in our bedroom. We used it maybe 10 times over 2-3 years.
Now we live elsewhere and only have 1 TV in the living room again.
The bedroom needs to be a low tech place, for optimal rest.
No TV in the bedroom. The bedroom is for sleeping and sex. (I have 2 TVs in the living room, but I am using them as PC monitors and don't watch TV and only subscribe to crunchy roll.)
I don't need a TV in a bedroom, I got screens all over the house and garage, but not in there lol.
My partner and I don't have ANY tv's.
Neither of us are super into TV or film in a way that builds creativity or community (we don't critique the technical or artistic merits of pieces, and we aren't into anime or other genres where there's potential to build a community around a shared passion). When we turn on the TV, it's to turn off our brains. We decided to not build a shrine to turning off our brains.
We have a laptop with a good screen and speakers that we use when we want to watch something together.
I took a protip from that CGP Grey video "Spaceship You" and so my bedroom is only used for 3 things;
- sex
- sleep
- naps
No bedroom TV. As an ADHD person, that's just a 'never-going-to-sleep' trap. I do have a list of youtube channels I put on my phone at lowest volume and screen off for background noise. It can't be too interesting or I won't sleep; it just needs to keep my mind from wandering in bad directions.
No TV but the more pernicious thing now is anything connected to the internet. Feels like "no TV in the bedroom" should be updated to "no screens in the bedroom" since a lot of folks end up doom scrolling instead of going to bed.
No, but like, I didn't buy the tv I have in the living room. My mom forced it on me. It doesn't have a cable package and I rarely turn it on. There's no reason to throw it away, but if it were up to me, I probably would have no tv at all. Kind of a 20th century appliance.
I do. It keeps me off my phone and I can watch the shows I have on my list. And, when I suffer from nightmares, it provides me some comfort. But, then again, I still technically sleep with a night light despite my age so maybe I'm an exception.
I don't own a TV. I'd rather be on my computer approximately 100% of the time.
No TV in the bedroom. Bedroom is for other activities.
Like sitting on your phone or crying!
I had a TV in the bedroom, but removing it was one of the best choices I made. I liked the idea of creating TV-free spaces so much that I moved the TV out of the living room too. The living room is a social space, the TV room is a dedicated room to watch the TV. There is no context where "the TV is just on".
Hell yeah dude, because the bed is comfy. Favorite place to watch shows or game
My husband and I don't have a TV in our bedroom. We'll go to bed at different times, and a TV going is just too much light and noise. If one of us wants to fall asleep to a TV show, there's a very comfortable couch in the living room.
I think it might be different if we had kids. In that case, having a TV in the bedroom can be useful, in case you want to watch something kids aren't old enough for yet. But it's just the two of us, so we keep a TV out of the bedroom. The bedroom is for sleeping and other activities.
No, I don't have a TV in my bedroom.
Why does me having a living room have any bearing on that?
Some people live in Studio Apartments or in Bedsits, where it's either having a TV in the bedroom-kitchen-living room or having no TV, no middle option.
Hence why OP stated that
If you’re in a studio apartment, you don’t really have a separate room for sleeping, so you likely have a tv visible from bed. If you move up to a 1 or 2 bed apartment, now you have a a living room, and a tv visible from bed is a choice. Guessing OP recently upgraded their living situation and is seeing how others do it.
Yes because there's 5 different people not counting a baby that all have different interests in my house. The only time we really come together to watch TV is for sports.
So you just sit in different rooms watching different things alone?
I would actually prefer that 90% of the time. I hate having to watch TV with someone else, I either miss what's on it or feel awkward when I have to rewind, then people have this warped perception that I care what they are trying to tell me as if it's not obvious I'm watching something on the TV so my focus is elsewhere.
My usage of a TV in the common room is when I'm feeling social or want to have whitenoise, any serious watching is strictly in my den or bedroom
Not getting along kinda helps but for the most part yeah.
I don't own a TV and if I did it sure as hell wouldn't be in my bedroom
No. No TVs in living room or bedroom. I have a separate gaming room for that. I hate TVs as center pieces unless its a gaming crt
Sure do. I have a tv in my living room, my man cave, the primary bed room and the guest room.
The living room is the main TV, my man cave is for my PS5 and other game platforms, the bedroom is for my wife to do her yoga and sometimes she will watch tv when she cant sleep.
The guest room is also where we keep our treadmill, stationary bike and stairclimber, si we will use it then.
I have my old old TV from a pawn shop mounted on the wall in the bedroom. Still works. Good enough to hook up a streaming box to and watch something before passing out. Many a nights it has been something mindless like the Office or Parks and Rec
Absolutely not. There is one TV and it is in the living room. We actually have two 'living rooms' (spaces that are not bathroom, bedroom, or kitchen) and if it was up to me the TV would be in the secondary one, farthest from kitchen and bedroom. I do sometimes like to watch TV but don't want it in my face all the time, and think living room looks better without one. But everyone else wants it in the bigger living room, which also holds the kitchen.
I do not have a "TV" in my bedroom but I do have a tablet that I use for videos at night I like falling asleep listening to YouTube or twitch
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