Cut the Cord. You can do this.

Save a ton of money by quitting cable and cutting the cord.

I don't like paying full price for anything.  This includes everything.

I will negotiate price on absolutely anything.  I've been known to negotiate at Costco - and every once in a while, I get a lower price!

I hated paying so much for cable.  Oh, you feel the same way?  Yeah, it's brutal how much cable costs now, I was feeling like a chump.  I had to stop the insanity, so I cut the cord and became a streamer, and I'm soooo glad I did.

I am going to share with you my experience and learnings from Cutting The Cord at our home.

Originally, this is what we were paying:

Comcast, about $220/month.
-Internet (75Mbps, this included renting the crummy Comcast router)
-TV/HD/DVR (2 TVs)
-Phone + long distance
-Security (We literally turned it on 1 time and never used it after that)
This was about $200/month, AND I was having to call back periodically and renegotiate my rate, which would occasionally rise to $220+!  Best I could get was about $190 every once in a while.  We also had Netflix for $12/month.

I cut the cord about a year and a half ago, and now I pay for the following services:

$45 Comcast Internet (75Mbps, I am getting about 90Mbps actual on my hardware)
$50 YouTube TV
$4.75 Ooma Telephone service
$12 Netflix
=$112 Total (all-in, no additional taxes on this)

My new Comcast bill for $44.95 for 75Mbps (I'm getting 90Mbps).  No additional fees/taxes on this.

YouTube TV for $50/month (no addt'l taxes on this).  YouTube TV includes the following:

• 6 separate accounts (read: my shows don't mess with my wife's viewing preferences and vice versa, and the junk the kids watch doesn't impact what is on my home screen.
• Unlimited DVR for each of the 6 accounts
• View anywhere (on the TV, phone, tablet, computer, anywhere that I have an internet connection, and I can access my DVR anywhere).  Note: If you go to a new area, the channel offering seems to change to your new locale.  For instance, if I go to Texas I will see the Texas channels, and will no longer see Sacramento-local channels.  This is fine, and I can still see the shows I've recorded.
• The channel offering is very robust (which honestly is why the price has unfortunately crept up to $50).  All the local networks, PBS, TBS, TNT, CNN, BBC, multiple ESPN channels and a bunch of other sports channels (even Tennis Channel which was a must-have for us), SyFy, Food, HGTV, FX, AMC, TCM, TOON, and a ton more. You can also get extras like Showtime or NBA League Pass for an additional fee.
• YouTube TV has a 1-week free trial.  I recommend giving it a run to see if it works with your needs.

Ooma for about 4.75/month - so we can have a landline.  The funny thing about Ooma is that the phone service is actually free, zero dollars.  But the taxes and fees you see below are $4.75.

and Netflix (a bit of an indulgence but we like it)

I recently got the inaugural offer for Disney+.  This was $141 for 3 years, or about $4/month.  I might not have gotten it for the full $70/year but that's about $5.50 per month to get The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda.  Pretty fair deal if you like Disney/Star Wars/Marvel/Pixar.

My advice:
You need to do some research before embarking on all of this.  Do some research and make sure you are technically capable of doing all of the steps.  Get some help from a techie if you like.

1) Purchasing your own cable modem and hooking it up (I use a Arris SB8200 because I wanted the forward compatibility of DOCSIS 3.1 - although this may have been overkill)
https://www.arris.com/surfboard/products/cable-modems/sb8200/
$169 at Best Buy, but you can always get this on sale:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/arris-surfboard-32-x-8-docsis-3-1-cable-modem-white/5839003.p?skuId=5839003
When you do this, you'll need to get Comcast on the phone so they know what hardware is on the other side of the line, and they'll make it work.  This takes about 10 minutes.  Easy.

2) Purchasing your own wireless router and hooking it up (I use a Netgear Nighthawk R8000, I recommend getting the best wireless router your budget can handle)
https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R8000.aspx
$279 at Best Buy (I got it for $215 on sale): https://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-nighthawk-x6-ac3200-tri-band-wi-fi-5-router-black/7201035.p?skuId=7201035

3) Connecting your TVs to the internet; this entails either
-Using the smart TV functionality (I do not recommend this, I find it slow, frustrating)
-Connecting a STB to your TV (I use a Roku Ultra on each of my TVs, I got them on a Black Friday sale for $50 each).
https://www.roku.com/products/roku-ultra
$100 at Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/roku-ultra-4k-streaming-media-player-with-jbl-headphones-and-enhanced-voice-remote-black/6293215.p?skuId=6293215

Note: There are many options here, Tivo, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, and many other Set-Top-Box products.  Use what works for you - but don't skimp - whatever you choose, you are going to be using that for a long time and you don't want to be using something lame.  The Roku Ultra is nice because it's very fast (like using a regular remote control), has voice activated controls, and even has a function where you press the button on top of the box and it finds your remote by making it play a song so you can locate it!).  You can also connect headphones to the remote so you can watch/listen without disturbing anyone else (good if another child is working on homework in a nearby room).

4) If you decide to keep your landline like us (I know, I'm a dinosaur), go get an Ooma Telo
https://www.ooma.com/home-phone-service/
$80 at Best Buy and you can always find a good sale: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ooma-telo-voip-home-phone-service-black/3404027.p?skuId=3404027
You do not have to get Ooma handsets. But I got one in addition to using my old handsets: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ooma-hd3-dect-6-0-cordless-expansion-handset-black/6220602.p?skuId=6220602.  The good thing about this is that it is easy to check your voicemail and it holds your address book (updatable from your cell phone via the Ooma app).
If you have a landline for which you want to keep your number, you'll need to:

1. Open an Ooma account
2. Get an Ooma-provided number (If you do not have an existing number you wish to keep, you're done).
3. Port your existing number to Ooma - I remember this took a week or so.
4. Once the port is 100% successful, close your account that previously had with that number (don't do this before the port is complete, you could lose your number forever!)
5. Take the appropriate steps to link the old number to your Ooma account (forward the old ported number to the new Ooma-provided number, so people who call the old number will ring your Ooma phone).  The Ooma website ad customer service was pretty good at helping me here.
6. Switch the phone number from the original Ooma number to your desired number.  This makes everything easier and you don't need call forwarding etc.
7. I think when I did it, I started with an Ooma Premier account, and downgraded it to a regular account later so I could keep my $4.95 monthly cost.  I still have no idea what the Premier account gave me.

5) Choosing a streaming service.  YouTube TV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, the list goes on.  You can also add products/services (like NBA Season Pass, or HBO, etc) as you like for a generally fair price.
The nice thing here is that virtually none of these services require you to sign a long-term contract.  A lot of people hook up an antenna to their house and they can get local channels in HD over-the-air (OTA).  This is a really good option if you just want local TV, plus the quality is typically better because there is no compression on OTA broadcasts (however I personally cannot discern the difference between a compressed and uncompressed broadcast).  This takes a little elbow grease but getting the OTA broadcast on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, FOX is 100% free.

For us?  YouTube TV covered practically all our bases and way cheaper than what we were paying previously.  I hear really good things about Hulu too, and it has similar pricing.  You do not need both Hulu and YouTube TV.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy, right?

You: "But WAIT WAIT WAIT Tovi, you just said I needed to shell out $500 to do this??  I thought cutting the cord was going to save me money???"
Me: Yeah dude, it's going to cost you some money upfront.  Think about it - Comcast is charging you like $30/month to rent your 2 HD/DVR cable boxes plus their crummy wireless router.  You won't have to pay that ever again.  Also the cable modem and wireless router I got are high-end, I got this equipment because there are 6 people in my household, with 3 teenagers.  That means everyone is streaming something ALL. THE. TIME.  I believed I would need good hardware to keep up and not experience a choppy/buffering TV signal.  You can go lower-end and save a couple hundred bucks and that might work just fine for you.
Remember this move is going to save you at least $100 per month.  So after 6 months, the savings is all gravy.  In this case you are going to have to spend some money to save a lot of money.

When I cut the cord, I planned out all these moves super carefully, and knew what hardware I wanted to buy.  Then over the course of about 6 months, I started shopping and looking for sales.  I'd get the router on a Labor Day Sale, the cable modem on a Christmas sale, a bunch of stuff on a Black Friday sale, etc, etc.  All of this stuff goes on sale multiple times a year.  There's always a way to spend less.  You just have to look for it.

You can do it, I know you can.