Software subscriptions quietly eat your free cash

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Scheduling app. Two GPS trackers. A review tool you tried once. A second email plan. A phone system nobody uses since you switched.

None of them feel big. $29 here, $79 there. Then you add it up and it is $1,400 a month leaving checking on autopilot.

Subscriptions are sneaky because they are small and recurring. The bank feed lumps them in with real costs and nobody asks questions.

Scrappy habit: once a quarter, list every recurring charge from the books. Ask one question about each: did we use this last month? If not, cancel.

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— Jake / Wenonah Bookkeeping