Death By 1,000 Subscriptions π
Quick, don't think, just answer--how many subscriptions do you have?
I asked myself this question and had no clue. So I counted.
21. I subscribe to 21 things. Here's the complete list. You may freely judge me.
- Car wash
- iCloud
- Todoist
- Fantastical
- YNAB
- Day One
- 1Password
- Phone Bill
- Backblaze
- Spotify
- Disney+
- Netflix DVD (Yes, they still do that.)
- YouTube Premium
- Superhuman <-- you should really judge me for this one
- Essay
- Google One
- Sapphire Fee
- Costco
- Amazon Prime
- Adobe
- Readwise
That's a total of $2,242.80 annually. Here's what that looks like spread across 2022 by month.
The average American estimates that they spend $86 a month on subscriptions, but the average American actually spends $219 a month on subscriptions. That's 2.5x more than their original estimate!β
In honor of Spring (which still feels suspiciously like Winter in my neck of the woods) let's all do some Spring Cleaning and decide if we want to stay subscribed to everything we pay for.
Quote Of The Week
Reading List
- Book: The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn*
- Article: How To Budget With Irregular Incomeβ
- Article: The One-Touch Guide to Doing a Weekly Review: How I Go From Chaos to Clarity in 30 Minutesβ
*Books stay on the list until I'm finished reading them. (This one's gonna be on here for a while...it's like 2,000 pages long. But so good!
Something Fun
Hope you enjoyed these little tidbits. Hit reply to let me know what is your most indulgent subscription. Mine is definitely Netflix DVD. I've been working my way through AFI's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time.
Tyler
Please consider inviting someone you know to subscribe. β€οΈ
Tyler Smith
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