Anyone else getting subscription burnout?

[MrRockliffe]

I feel like there’s a subscription for everything these days.


Having a worked for a company who was a pioneer of the business model in the corporate world, I understand the benefits it brings to companies - namely a more consistent revenue stream, and consistent growth.



But man, having things increase left, right and centre is frustrating as a consumer.



Just off the top of my head, I’ve got:


Spotify
Netflix
Prime
YouTube Premium
OneDrive
iCloud



Cars are basically a subscription model nowadays, due to the cost of purchasing them.




Again, I understand why, but I wonder what the limit is for most?

 

[MrRockliffe]

So it's all your fault you monster.
I've binned of a few, but still have more to go. It's just a constant financial drain.

Yep basically all my fault

 

[MrRockliffe]

If you get value i.e prime it's worth it. I pay Spotify because there's no way I could replicate with manual behaviour.

Netflix you can pirate but it's in indispensable for the kids.

Yt premium is the only pure luxury on that list imo. And surely OneDrive and iCloud can be rationalised or is that apple tax?

YouTube and Spotify are my primary sources of content consumption. If they keep putting the cost of family up, though, I wouldn’t pay it.


OneDrive I have because it was the cheapest way of paying for 1TB of cloud storage + MS apps. But now I’m looking to move to a self hosted model and just buying a version of office. I don’t care for AI integration.


iCloud because you only get 5GB of cloud backup as standard which isn’t enough for backing up all my nudes, sorry messages.

 

[MrRockliffe]

Spotify is a waste of money if you already have YT Premium as YT Music is great, that's one thing you can easily cut out

Have you not used the YouTube Music app?

 

[MrRockliffe]

Microsoft 365 Family and Personal Subscriptions

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These are the vouchers I buy for OneDrive. Not worth headache to do it locally IMO. Can you not backup to OneDrive on iOS?

Nope, iCloud only. 100% worth the headache for me because once I’ve spent the money that’s it.


I’ve been having endless issues with OneDrive anyway :/

 

[MrRockliffe]

My point was more around maintaining it, relying on your home net access, replacing drives etc... Had many NAS's all my life, always mothball them in the end lol

I set one up for my dad about 7 years ago and to my knowledge it’s still absolutely gold.

Would probably use SSDs with it as I don’t have a huge amount writing to it after the initial backup.

 

[MrRockliffe]

I have noticed more and more that I seem to be in a minority of people who actually buy their car. The years I’ve owned a car outright have meant free motoring bar servicing.

Are second hand cars now so expensive that people can’t afford them so PCP or Leasing is the only viable options for someone wanting something semi good?

I’ve quickly learned.


I bought my S5 on finance and hated it. I sold it pretty quickly and paid off the finance.


I then bought a much cheaper car which I owned outright, loving every moment of it.



I was lucky enough to afford to get an even nicer car not long after, but again bought it outright.



I have the electric car on lease, but it feels different, I think because it’s a tool.


I wouldn’t want to sink £400 a month into a “nice to have” - the electric car is very much a “a to b” job.



Once the lease is up though, I will be buying the next car outright. Just a better place to be knowing it’s owned.

 

[MrRockliffe]

Yep WhatsApp, free calls and text forever.

Phone service providers probably hate it.

You can’t usually call companies with it though