I was thinking the other day that it’s funny, Matt Smith was a twenty-something, who in the role of the Doctor felt fucking ancient, but Peter Capaldi is fifty-something and feels in the role of the Doctor like a twenty-something undergrad whose skipped every single class of their anthropology course in favor of eating a month’s supply of ramen and playing “Blitzkrieg Bop” 17 times in a row.
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Okay, but now I have to know how self-aware this article is. I have university access to Wall Street Journal, brb.
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Definitely at least somewhat: “The charges regularly hitting our credit cards have expanded far beyond video and music-streaming services and, yes, newspapers.”
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“Step 1: Audit. Log in to your credit card and bank accounts and make a list (or, better yet, a spreadsheet) of all your monthly and yearly subscriptions, along with their charges.
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Step 2: Consolidate to family plans. Have your partner do the same and then cross-reference the lists. I quickly spotted some duplicates in my household.
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When signing up for new services, look out for the ability to disable any auto-renew function, and if there’s a free trial, set a reminder on your calendar just before the trial period ends, so you can consider canceling before you get charged.”
I…I guess it’s good that there are people pointing this out to those who haven’t thought of it? Today’s lucky ten-thousand and all that. And of course, as the beginning of this thread points out, people subscribed to the Wall Street Journal are going to be disproportionately people careless about which subscriptions they’re on.
(even if I *personally* cannot comprehend the kind of mind that would sign up for Amazon Prime without first checking whether their spouse had it already, or for that matter the kind of mind that would not think to inform their spouse that they had Amazon Prime
also, the kind of mind that would not think long and hard about signing up for a $15/month *anything*, let alone this:
“Here’s a hilarious story. For the past three years I’ve been paying $15 a month for an electronic fax service I’ve used… twice. That’s $540. For the same amount, I could have bought 20 rolls of fax paper. Or 10 real working fax machines. Or a plane ticket to Ireland to visit the museum where the world’s first fax machine is on display.”)
((I’m trying very hard to be open-minded about this: I know everyone thinks their own talents are easy))
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P.S. If I fed it into my financial calculator right, that $10/month service for 5 years has cost you ~$663, if you count lost interest at 4%.
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