
12. Subscription Services
It would be tough to find a living soul in the West that doesn’t have at least one recurring monthly subscription. Think about it whether Amazon Prime, Spotify, Netflix, or one of the countless other services available. Some people don’t keep too close an eye on how many they’ve signed up for and end up spending a fortune. One Redditor, /u/futurelookinggood, admitted to forgetting about their monthly services. The user said, “Guilty of this. I subscribed to the Creative Suite for a year because I thought I would use it a lot. It turns out I paid $240 just to use Photoshop three times. Lesson learned.”
Another Redditor shared how they followed everyone’s advice and wound up finding their own mystery charge saying, “I actually went through my expenses recently because a friend of mine was telling a story about how they had apparently been paying for a coffee subscription to an old address for almost a year and somehow didn’t notice. I learned that for almost three years, I’d had a premium membership to Chess.com ($14/month) that I just hadn’t noticed being charged because it was coming out of a checking account that I don’t use for a lot. That’s almost $500 because I never log in to review my charges.”