The Subscription Purge: Find the $80 a Month You Forgot You Were Paying

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Preview โ€” The Goal

๐Ÿ’ณ The Goal: Quick โ€” how much do you pay per month in subscriptions? If you guessed under $50, you're probably wrong by half: surveys consistently find people underestimate their subscription spend by $100+ a month once you count the streaming stack, the app you tried once, the cloud storage, the 'free trial' from March, and the gym you swear you'll go back to. This is not an accident โ€” the entire subscription economy is built on the set-and-forget: easy to start, designed to be forgotten, deliberately annoying to quit. The Subscription Purge is a one-hour annual ritual that claws it all back, and it usually finds $500-1,000 a year on the first run.