How many are going ‘back to basics’ in terms of subscriptions and such?

(Flare doesn't really fit, but… eh…. Kinda does also.)

I used to be an Android person when it came to phones, and google everything was my go to. Everything was stored on the google drive, like pictures and such.

Then I switched to apple products, but never really got rid of Google. Until recently. I was paying for basic drive storage on Google and started getting alerts that my storage was full… So I shut off the sync function between my iPhone and Google everything.

But Google kept turning it back on and kept pushing me to expand my storage. No matter what I did, it overrode my selection to turn it off.

So I got rid of it. Moved all my stuff over to iCloud, turned off syncing again, cleared everything off of my Drive, and removed the apps completely from my phone. Canceled that subscription.

Of course, this now meant I had to upgrade my iCloud storage and pay another subscription fee (ugh!)

But finally today I got everything downloaded to my computer and then copied to both a flash drive and a portable hard drive, deleted from the iCloud, and canceled that subscription.

It was *only* $3.20/mo, but that still feels like a win to me.

I also told my husband we need to finish watching our TV show on Peacock because I'm canceling our Walmart+ this month. We don't have stuff delivered, their scan and go is horrible, and my car doesn't like Murphy gas. We were basically only using it for Peacock and an occasional Burger King order for 25% off, but I have Chime, and I can get the same BK deals or better by activating deals on that.

I'm highly considering getting rid of my Sam's Club membership when it comes due as well. I already downgraded from a Plus to a basic member last year.

Getting rid of all this would save me $266.28 per year (Sam's is going up to $60/year for basic membership this years, FYI).

Has anyone else done basically the same type of thing? My husband is a tech kinda guy and he's been giving me the side eye because I'm stepping back from technology a bit as well. I'm trying to get our debts paid off so I can go back to mostly using cash instead of all this electronic payment stuff. There's so many fees tacked onto it all. I would even consider shutting down our internet if it was just me… but that's not a hill I'm willing to die on.

A relative of mine and I have been writing actual physical letters to each other instead of emailing each other as well, and that has been so nice! But sadly, with postage shooting up so high, we discussed and agreed on soon returning to email communication. She's on an exceptionally tight budget, and mine isn't much better in all honesty.