Death By 1,000 Subscriptions

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.

1. Car wash
2. iCloud
3. Todoist
4. Fantastical
5. YNAB
6. Day One
7. 1Password
8. Phone Bill
9. Backblaze
10. Spotify
11. Disney+
12. Netflix DVD (Yes, they still do that.)
13. YouTube Premium
14. Superhuman <-- you should really judge me for this one
15. Essay
16. Google One
17. Sapphire Fee
18. Costco
19. Amazon Prime
20. Adobe
21. 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!​

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 Income​
• Article: The One-Touch Guide to Doing a Weekly Review: How I Go From Chaos to Clarity in 30 Minutes​

*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