One of the most frustrating parts about digital streaming can be how easily costs add up. When you subscribe to a handful of services a month, you can easily lose track of cumulative expenses amid price hikes, inactive subscriptions, and forgotten sign-ups.
But if you're busy and only have time to stream your favorite titles during the weekend, you don't have to regularly pay for individual services and not make use of them. Instead, you can use these tricks to save money and stream efficiently.
Review your subscriptions
Track your expenses
Before you begin cutting down on subscriptions, the first step to take is to review all your charges. It's easy to lose track of all your monthly subscriptions and, in the process, lose sight of how much you actually spend every month on streaming services that you may not even use regularly. With monthly subscriptions, you may also be ignoring price hikes that many services carry out silently, so monitoring your expenses, regardless of your viewing activity, can be a good practice.
When I started regularly streaming only during weekends due to my schedule, I made sure to draw up a spreadsheet within my budgeting tracker so I could cancel (or pause, like Netflix and YouTube Premium let you do) subscriptions that I had not touched in over a month. Alternatively, you can also try a subscription tracking or budgeting app like Bobby or Trim, but make sure…