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Many of us signed up for entertainment (streaming television! date night in a box!) and regular home delivery of essentials (toothbrushes! groceries! toilet paper!) at the start of the pandemic. If you’re like me, these days you may find yourself signed up for 10 or more subscription services.

Subscriptions can be time-saving and convenient, and specialty ones make great gifts. But if you aren’t receiving the value you expect from the subscription in question, it’s simply a colossal waste of money and resources. There are other drawbacks to the recurring payment model as well, and on today’s short and sweet episode I’m uncovering them.

 

Here’s a preview:

[7:30] 5 disadvantages to subscription services that you may not have considered

[8:45] What do recurring charges mean for our data and privacy?

[12:30] Subscription services and the concept of sunk cost

[18:00] One incremental action step for listeners to save money

 

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Subscriptions can be time-saving and convenient; specialty ones make great gifts, too. But if you aren't receiving the value you expect from the subscription in question, it's simply a colossal waste of money and resources. On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: 5 drawbacks to the recurring payment model you may not have considered.

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New things are everywhere—and they’re causing us to disconnect from what we value most.

In a world that constantly tells us that new is better, our relentless pursuit of material wealth is costing us money, time and happiness. Worse, when we define ourselves by what we own rather than who we are, we reduce our lives to a single, superficial dimension.

On today’s show, New York Times journalist Eric Athas offers advice for stepping away from the cycle of constant buying, saying no to shallowness, and discovering the right kind of “new” in our lives.

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[8:00] We're wired to become bored the familiar, and other truths to newness

[16:00] Consumption has costs! (In fact, it robs us of our finite attention, dilutes our capacity for genuine enjoyment, and misaligns our pursuit of happiness.)

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