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  Could you go without TV? These people do — and say it makes them 'feel freer.' No TV? No problem. Why these people shun screens — and what they do instead. (Illustration by Liliana Penagos for Yahoo News) For  Mina Grace Ward  and her family, living a TV-free life started way back in 1994. “A family challenge was broadcast nationwide called ‘ TV Turnoff Week .’ I thought it would be fun to give it a go at our house with our then-little boys, so we did it,” remembers Ward. “No telly for a whole week — and it was amazing!” As her four sons grew up, they repeated TV Turnoff Week each year. In 2009, they decided to give up their TV for good. “It wasn’t lightly considered by any means,” Ward, a California-based author known as  Graves' Disease Chef , tells Yahoo Life. “We gave away our big-screen TV in exchange for so much more for our family." On average, Americans spend  three hours per day  watching traditional television. When you factor in an eight-hour w...