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What paid subscriptions do you have?
06-24-2016, 06:53 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 217
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What paid subscriptions do you have?
Digital subscriptions, that is....
Today, after years of conscientiously limiting myself to 15 free NY Times articles a month (when logged in to their site) I finally caved and signed up for their "basic" plan (with a promo: the first 8 weeks free and $1.88/week for a year after that; cancel anytime). Yes, I know you can Google the title of an article and view it free and clear, but frankly, I'm worn down. I just want to view articles from the convenience of Twitter/FB/any other link and not have to weigh whether or not they go toward my monthly allocation. Plus, ageing. I feel like I'm old enough to splurge and spend a little coin on some digital subscriptions.
So here's what I pay for in the digital realm, and I'd love to hear what others subscribe to:
- NY Times digital access - $1.88/week (when that kicks in)
- YouTube Red (love the lack of commercials and downloading/offline features) - $13.14/month (iOS version)
- Amazon Prime - $99/year now (right?)
- Evernote (Plus plan) - $24.99/year
- Dashlane (password app that syncs across PCs and mobile devices) - $19.99/year
- HP Ink - $3.14/month (I'm gonna count this a being in the digital realm; 50 printed pages a month, unused sheets rollover to the next month, ink shipped automatically. I have high-schoolers and am still weighing the merits of this...)
- BackBlaze (cloud backup) - $99/every two years
BTW, I don't have a cable package; only OTA TV and internet, and no Netflix or Hulu either.
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06-24-2016, 07:02 PM
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#2
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 217
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Touche, bingybear.
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06-24-2016, 07:05 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
Posts: 38,145
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I forget.....
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Retired since summer 1999.
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06-24-2016, 07:33 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: yonder
Posts: 2,851
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Originally Posted by audreyh1
I forget.....
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Well, you better start remembering if you were paying for them with your Costco Amex card.
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When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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06-24-2016, 07:36 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
Posts: 36,374
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Amazon Prime, Money, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Used to have WSJ Weekend edition but I let it lapse when we went to FL last winter and haven't missed it much.
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If something cannot endure laughter.... it cannot endure.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Retired Jan 2012 at age 56
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06-24-2016, 07:50 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: San Diego
Posts: 14,212
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Amazon Prime
Tivo
Netflix
No magazines (digital or print). No newpapers.
For the NYTimes firewall - and our local paper firewall... Once I hit the monthly quota I use a different browser. A family member ran for local office recently - and I kept hitting the quota for the local paper due to my google alerts on the other candidates. I learned the 2nd/3rd/4th browser trick pretty quickly.
Fortunately, we have some great local online newsites and I visit those daily... for free.
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Retired June 2014. No longer an enginerd - now I'm just a nerd.
micro pensions 6%, rental income 20%
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06-24-2016, 07:54 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: yonder
Posts: 2,851
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Amazon Prime
Value Line
Morningstar Dividend Investor
edit: forgot to add Netflix
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When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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06-24-2016, 07:55 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Cavalier
Posts: 2,317
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Amazon Prime, Evernote, Netflix
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"Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." Pogo Possum (Walt Kelly)
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06-24-2016, 08:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,072
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Amazon Prime, Netflix and Playstation Vue.
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Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
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06-24-2016, 08:05 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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Currently:
RTE Player International (will cancel when I've finished watching a specific series)
Amazon Prime (will cancel as I'm not using it enough to make it worthwhile)
At some time in the past:
Globeandmail.com
BBC Player
Netflix
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06-24-2016, 08:14 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,731
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Amazon Prime
Netfix (for four - $12.99/mo)
Kiplingers Mag - Me
Readers Digest (DW)
Comcast Cable (DW use 99% of time)
Houston Chronicle - delivered 5 days per week (DW 100%)
Handyman Mag - $12.99/yr (me)
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06-24-2016, 08:31 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 19
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Netflix: $10/mo, MLS Live: $65/year, SiriusXM Satellite Radio: $200/yr
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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06-24-2016, 08:34 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 17,242
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Does the question include cable and internet 
If so, then that is all I have... I am not interested in paying for any content etc.... I have read a few articles in the NYT, but I thought there was a limit of 10... and I have never hit that in any month...
As for Netflix or any of the other streaming companies, I already have way more content with Dish than I can watch.... no need to buy more...
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06-24-2016, 08:59 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Bonita (San Diego)
Posts: 1,795
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Amazon Prime
Active Advantage (for race entries and gear discounts)
Consumer Reports (buying car and baby stuff this year)
Bicycling magazine
Wine Spectator (gift)
WSJ
That's basically it.
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"So we beat to our own drummer in the sun;
We ask for nobody's permission to run.
I just wanna live in a world like that;
Now I'm gonna live in a world like that!" - World Like That, O.A.R.
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06-24-2016, 09:18 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 805
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Netflix
mlb.tv
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06-24-2016, 09:40 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: SoCal
Posts: 928
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Amazon Prime
Netflix
Spotify Family Plan
Backblaze (2 year plan)
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06-24-2016, 10:46 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Spending the Kids Inheritance and living in Chicago
Posts: 17,099
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Here is our list, with prices of some of things we subscribe to.
Netfix (8.99 unless they increased it)
Kiplingers Mag (free)
Handyman Mag ($6.00)
Money Mag.
Health Mag
Real Simple Mag ($5.00)
O Mag (free)
Art & America
Family Circle (free)
Digital Photo (free)
Popular Photography (free)
Weight Watchers (free)
Afar Mag (600 mileage points)
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06-25-2016, 12:19 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Williston, FL
Posts: 3,925
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I do not have any paid subscriptions. I have a few magazines I monitor via RegTag, that are free. ValueLine is the most recent that has value to me, and I do not have time to read it...
If I need a article from a website, I click the link in an "incognito window". It brings up the article sans cookies. And it works.
An alternative is to delete the cookies from that site in your browser, or open up a different browser (chrome vs. IE vs. FireFox)
I do have Amazon Prime and a DirectTV.
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06-25-2016, 06:08 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 13,150
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Amazon Prime.
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Have you ever seen a headstone with these words
"If only I had spent more time at work" ... from "Busy Man" sung by Billy Ray Cyrus
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06-25-2016, 06:56 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 5,350
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I have not had a paid subscription to anything for many years. I don't plan to start any time soon.
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