Showerthought: spending $40 a month on streaming was burning my budget harder than I thought

Honestly, I used to just pay for Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ without thinking about it. Last month I added up what I was actually watching and found out I only use two of them regularly. So I cut the others and switched to the ad-supported plans, now I'm under $18 total. It's a small change but it frees up cash for actual groceries. Has anyone else done a streaming audit and found some surprises?

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tarag281mo ago

Oh man, my friend Sarah did this and found out she was paying for three different services she hadn't touched in like six months. She was still paying for Apple TV+ just because she forgot to cancel after the free trial ended. She also had HBO Max for a whole year without ever opening it, which is brutal. Now she just rotates one service a month and pays way less.

the_xena1mo ago

My sister and I did a shared audit last year and found we were double paying for a subscription each of us thought the other was covering. Turned out we both had Paramount Plus for like eight months. We merged our accounts and now split a family plan on just two services we actually watch, it dropped our individual costs to around $10 a month. That little change alone let me put an extra $30 toward my savings each month without even noticing the difference in my TV time.