civvver
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I was wondering what subscriptions you have currently or have had in the past and your thoughts on them. I've got:
- Xfinity internet and cable. Really love the service, it's fast and reliable. It was getting pretty expensive but they have changed up their plans significantly in response to streaming services so it's not that expensive now.
- Att cell service. My wife's phone. My I get through work. Without bundling with someone this stuff is super expensive.
- Disney+. Cheap enough and the kids love it, kind of lacks original content though so once you get through rewatching all the marvel and star wars movies you want, not sure what it's good for. But again, the kids love watching all the old stuff like cinderella and snow white.
- Netflix. I'll probably always have this, just too many great originals at this point to drop it.
- Amazon Prime. Worth it just for the shipping costs for us and free returns. The tv shows are a bonus, as are all the twitch prime games.
- Amazon Freetime Unlimited. Idk, without this I'm not sure how many games we'd have to buy for the kids fire tablets so I guess it's worth it?
- Allrecipes magazine. So I got this super cheap for like $7 for the year initially with one of those promos but I think my auto renewal was more like $20 and it's only 6 a year. It's nice cus the formatting is basically clean and it's all cooking. Of course you can find way more recipes online but I like browsing a magazine sometimes while online is harder.
- YMCA. For a family it's one of the best gym deals, cheaper than a lifetime fitness, a little less nice but still tons of classes and equipment. No sauna though.
- Lawn fertilizing. I mow my lawn but yes, I pay people to fertilize and weed treat it. I pay probably like $200 a year. My neighbor does his own and I asked him how much he spends on fertilizing and he said probably $100 a summer so I figured paying double wasn't that bad of a price to have someone else do it. I'm worried I would burn my lawn or something.
- Shipt. So I have very mixed feelings on this. On the one hand it seems ridiculously expensive to me in a way. They don't charge a delivery fee. They make money by pricing all their items 10-25% more. If milk costs $1.99 at the grocery store they will mark it up to $2.39. My $80-100 weekly grocery bill now balloons to $125 pretty easily and it adds up. Plus you are supposed to tip I guess, so I usually tip $10-15 dollars flat, not percentage wise. In the end it gets expensive over regular grocery store do it yourself, but it does save sooo much time and hassle. It has a history so I can just go add all the same stuff and move things around and be done shopping in 10 minutes.
- Trash removal. I mean, it's pretty essential what can I say?
- Water and sewer. Ditto.
- HBO. This is pretty expensive, being more than netflix and I'm the only one who watches it so once game of thrones was over and I finished barry season 2 I dropped it. I'll probably add it again at some point and binge a bunch of series but I have so much other stuff to watch.
- Humble bundle monthly, before it was humble choice. Just joined for a month to get some stuff I wanted.
- SiriusXM. Had a free trial with the car and never used it.
- DirecTV. I had it a long time ago but I hated the signal. It would cut out all the time with any type of weather other than sunny.
- Hello Fresh or any of those meal kit things. I love cooking and shopping can be a hassle but they seem expensive.
- Xfinity mobile. Really cheap for what you get and it runs on verizon network. But my wife's phone is not compatible so we'd have to upgrade and I have to convince her it'd be worthwhile. She hates change with stuff like this.
