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The Subscriptions that have survived my recent cull
A few months ago, I was mindlessly browsing the internet when I came across a forum post asking members to share how much they spend on subscription apps. I was amazed that people seem to be paying hundreds (if not thousands) of pounds a year, which seemed crazily high.
However, when I sat down and went through the apps that I subscribe to, I realised that I wasn’t far off that, which was a massive surprise for me.
(As an aside, if you’re on iOS and thinking of doing something similar, I’d recommend checking out Bobby — an app which tracks all of your subscriptions and calculates associated costs as well as when payments are due.)
Anyway, having got a decent overview of my subscription costs, I started to trim down those services to better manage my finances. The result of the cull is that I decided that there are seven services that I deem ‘essential’ to the way that I live and work — and they are as follows (in alphabetical order):
Dashlane (£2.80/month)
They say that there are two kinds of people: those who pay for password managers and those who have never been hacked. I was in the second group up until four years ago when someone got into my personal email account. From there, they were able to access my business email account, which allowed them to get into my affiliate…
