Emily called a family meeting last week. Everyone had to bring their phones and iPads to the living room. She made us all go into Settings, tap our names, and pull up Subscriptions. What we found was embarrassing.
I had an HBO subscription from when Game of Thrones was still airing. The show ended years ago. Still paying. I had a McAfee antivirus subscription for $100 a year attached to an old email address, billing through an old credit card that had somehow been updated. A notes app. A scanner app I could have gotten for free. Tyler had a Duolingo subscription from when he was learning Spanish in elementary school. The twins had Canva accounts at $112 each when students get it free.
In five minutes, sitting in our living room, we found over $300 a month in subscriptions we’d completely forgotten about. And that was just the beginning.
Money Matters
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