Buying the TV was only the first part, Sears use to deliver them right to the door if you were lucky, heavy as can be and I think they may have even unpacked the sucker
After you got your new TV then you had to buy a antenna and build a tower to hold it in order to get any reception at all, 3 channels max if it was a cloudy day,
Lets not forget about the antenna controller otherwise you would have been turning the antenna by hand or one of the kids would be doing that while someone is yelling from the living room hehe
You also needed a whole whack of cable and some ingenuity to get it from the TV to the antenna and you needed more to set up the controller in order to move the antenna,
Back then you always had to remember to unplug the sucker during lightning storms,
That was why family's at that time were always big, they needed a few kids at home to change the channels for Dad or move the antenna controller,
Which explains why the kids were outside at the crack of dawn and all day rain /snow or shine until the sun goes down at night hehe
