I saw this article on Yahoo finance. The headline touted "How to Earn $1 million by Not Watching TV". Intriguing enough, so I read it.
What a bunch of BS. After several paragraphs of dubious arithmetic, you have to read almost the whole article to find out that that 80% of the money you will "save" is the money you would have spent due to the influence of TV commercials.
This article was from thestreet.com, a site supposedly dedicated to financial education.
There are a lot of good reasons to limit TV watching, but not the expectation that you are going to end up with $1 million in your pocket.