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If you’re not watching it, are you still paying for it? It’s time to get strategic about streaming subs
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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After ten years of constant subs, I’ve killed myNetflixsubscription. It’s not me. It’s them. There’s literally nothing on Netflix I want to watch right now, and quite a lot of things I don’t like my subscriptions contributing to. Between that, the imminent arrival ofpaid-for account sharingand the fact that Netflix is the most expensive of all thestreaming servicesI subscribed to, keeping my subscription going was just wasting money.
And it’s a lot of money. Before co-parenting my kids means having to shell out even more for account sharing, Netflix is £15.99 a month. And that account sharing thing is crucial for me, because my kids are the ones that watch Netflix. I rarely do, and I definitely don’t watch £14.99 a month’s worth.
I remember when streaming services promised to cut the cables, to free us from the expense of cable bundles that made us pay for tons of things we didn’t watch. It didn’t quite turn out like that, did it?
57 subscriptions and there’s nothing on
What’s changed, of course, is that Netflix is no longer the only streamer worth paying for – and in many cases the shows worth paying for, for me at least, aren’t on it any more. I was one of thousands of people who subscribed to Netflix to watch Breaking Bad and later, Better Call Saul. But the shows I want to see now, such asThe Last of UsandYellowjackets, aren’t on Netflix. Marvel moved toDisney+ ages ago. And I’m wary of getting into new shows in case Netflix cancels them just as I get hooked.
That means Netflix has become less useful over time while also becoming more expensive, and the account sharing fees are going to make it more expensive still. And because it’s no longer the only streamer I need to subscribe to, it’s not the only one I’m paying for – so my overall bill keeps going up.
Some of my streaming is included in other bundles, such asAppleOne. But for simplicity’s sake here’s what I’m currently subscribed to and what each one costs based on our guide to thebest streaming dealsand my list of direct debits.
Netflix: £14.99 a monthDisney+: £7.99 a monthNow TV: £9.99 a month; it’d be £14.99 if I wanted full HDApple TV+: £4.99 a monthAmazon Prime Video: £7.99 a month
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That’s over £45 per month during a cost of living crisis where energy bills are soaring and staples aren’t in supermarkets. I could heat my flat for about 20 minutes with all that money, or buy two tomatoes from the local tomato dealer.
I haven’t watched anything on Netflix in weeks, so that can go until there’s something I think is worth paying £15 a month for. Now TV is getting the boot as soon as the final Last of Us episode streams, and it’s staying unsubscribed until Yellowjackets returns. I’d kill offAmazon Primeif I didn’t use it for faster deliveries.
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