Money experiment · 3 days
Subscription audit
Recurring payments are designed to be forgotten. Reviewing them once can free money every month with no loss of anything you value.
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Recurring payments are designed to be forgotten. Reviewing them once can free money every month with no loss of anything you value.
What to do each day
Review one group of recurring payments and decide for each: keep, pause or cancel.
What to notice
- Payments you had forgotten about.
- Ones you keep "just in case".
- The total across a year, not a month.
At the end, ask yourself
- What did you cancel or pause, and do you miss it?
- What is the yearly total of what you kept?
Lessons behind this
- Subscription traps — Small, automatic payments are designed to be forgotten. Together they can be surprisingly large. (5 min · Foundation)
- The true cost: cost per use and total cost of ownership — The price tag is only the beginning. What something costs across its whole life is the real number. (7 min · Practical)