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No TV in my bedroom. The only time we spend in there is sleeping.

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 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.

Pretty neat if you're interested in missing all the movies' endings.

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.

where else am I supposed to watch my pornos?

ofc there's a TV in the bedroom. one in the bathroom, the kitchen, the laundry room, the family room, the living room, the dining room, the breakfast nook, all the bedrooms, the office, the garage, the patio.

No TV in the bedroom for me. No need, really. The bedroom is for sex and sleep, nothing else.

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.

In smaller places, yes. It was the video game window.

In bigger places later on no. Bedroom is for sleeping.

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...

I used to, but I haven't for about 10 years or so. By the time I go to bed, I want to sleep. I might browse my phone for a few minutes first.

A TV in the bedroom also encourages you to stay in bed longer in the morning.

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.

I don't need a TV in a bedroom, I got screens all over the house and garage, but not in there lol.

I took a protip from that CGP Grey video "Spaceship You" and so my bedroom is only used for 3 things;

• sex
• sleep
• naps

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hell yeah dude, because the bed is comfy. Favorite place to watch shows or game

I think the better question and the one that would get more yes or no answers is do you have any screens in your bedroom? Not necessarily televisions.

I think significantly more people watch their phones in bed than they do large TVs.

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

If my Do-It-All-Room counts:

(Greetings from my breakfast table lol.)

Assuming I had an apartment with 2-3 rooms (meaning a hobby and/or living room + bedroom) I would probably only put one in the bedroom as a spare TV.
But I would not buy a new one just to watch more screens.