Cutting costs = cancel Netflix?

Agree i love netflix too much 😉

I think it's about cutting out the non-essentials, and when I've been really strapped for cash I've looked at everything. It also depends on things like whether you have lots of subscriptions and services, and don't need so many. I pay £12.99 for Netflix, as it's our main TV and the whole family are on it, but we only have one other subscription to a streaming service at a time. I know lots of people who have 4 or 5 a month. Our phone contracts are 4 of us at £6 a month each, but other people might spend a lot on that and could cut it down.

I don't socialise much so 12.99 for netflix a month is nothing compared to going out drinking every weekend.
Phone contracts in another one. I spend £8 a month for my SIM only contract (bought handset separately 2 years ago).

I think we pay almost £20 per month so maybe that poster was also paying more, or maybe it was something they didn’t use a lot so it wasn’t value for money, for them, whatever amount they were paying.

Not everyone spends money on the same stuff, I don’t but takeaway coffee or drink alcohol, so they’re not savings I could make if I needed to.

Regardless, lots of smaller things add up so if you need to reduce outgoings. I suppose it’s worth looking at all costs, big or small.

Cancelling one £4.99 DD is going to do fuck all really isn’t it but the whole subscription model does my head in.

You can rarely buy actual computer programs anymore it’s mostly subscriptions. I don’t want to pay £20 a month for photoshop, I want to pay £80 and own it.

its going the same way with cars, want heated seats on your bmw it’s a £15 a month - although the backlash they got meant they went back on it, but I’m sure it will be back in some form.
it all adds up £5 for this, £20 for that. even things like Spotify, I miss owning something not renting it.

I think it's just something to say.
A friend was talking to me at the weekend about a friend she visited in London, in her lovely 4 bedroom house in Hampstead, privately educated kids and the fabulous food they ate.
"You can see how they do it" she says "They don't have Netflix and they make their own bread."
I didn't really even know how to begin to challenge that!

I couldn't cancel Netflix, I love it, it has some showstoppers on there.
We cancelled Amazon prime (£90 a year subscription)
We get around it by ordering to a local post office/shop at checkout and just collect from there, it's £2.99 postage, far cheaper than standard Amazon postage if you don't have prime. Plus we don't order that much from it, and we found the tv package was naff, still had to pay for good things to watch.
I buy clothes from charity shops these days, and sell unwanted clothes on vinted for an extra cash boost.
Takeaways once a month normally on pay day.
Buying food when you go on day trips, take a pack up instead. I also have an old iPhone now and opted for sim only contract once I'd paid it off (because do we really need a new iphone every few years?) I pay £10 a month also sim only, I did haggle the £10 a month tho as originally they wanted £16.

I cancelled our Sky after it rose to £70 odd a montage for the basic package and they wouldn’t budget.
that was worth doing.
we don’t have prime, Netflix or Disney +

dh moans there’s nothing on, but there never was more on our Sky package anyway!

Once you take affordability out the equation it’s about value, if you feel you are getting value from it, it’s worth keeping. IF you could watch the same stuff your watching on the free catch ups, then your not getting value.

Watching ads is just like watching old TV. Get up go to the toilet, make a brew. You should be taking a break from the TV. Save the money!

Yes, these people could probably save much more by looking at their supermarket shop, dropping a brand level, cutting a few of the extra treats.

What on earth are you taking about? You have jumped on me and posted arsey replies despite the fact I am not saying anything different to anyone else on the post- you’ve either misunderstood or you’re a bully harassing a random poster for fun. Go away.

Depending on where you live, you might have a local library which has newspapers or magazines in a reading corner.

Often you don't need a library card to read stuff at the library; only for borrowing.

Some libraries have online newspapers accessible through your account. If you don't have an e-reader, you might still be able to read the newspapers on a laptop screen - again, it depends on the library.
Not the same as physical paper, I know, but at least those are current and offer full access to all articles, in comparison to many news sites.

I can also recommend looking for libraries of larger cities, even if you don't live in the city itself but nearby in the surrounding counties, because they often offer more media online.

On that note, some libraries offer an additional streaming service, but not all of them.

I agree that there are subscriptions and then SUBSCRIPTIONS.

My ex was moaning that he never had money but he smoked, had the most expensive sky package (think it was over £100 a month) as he had films and sport and had netflix as well. Oh and he was paying for BT sport or something, massive football fan.

I told him to stop talking about being skint until he had either quit smoking or got rid of the stupid TV packages.

ETA he also said that there would be no way he could afford the repayments on the size mortgage the bank would offer, I pointed out that he could easily afford them if he prioritised that over fags and tv (fags were circa £600 a month ffs!)

The luxuries are cheap.

Its the essentials that are expensive.

why would cancelling Netflix be meaningful when the cost to rent a 1 bed flat is £1500?

cancel disney though for political purposes 😅😅

I agree. It's such a small outgoing that it's really not going to make that much of a difference. Years ago, when I was struggling with my finances,my DM said that I should stop spending money on my weekly magazines. I spent the grand total of £1.80 a week on 2 magazines (this was 20 years ago when magazines were nowhere near as expensive as they are nowadays!). It would have saved me £7.20 a month. Not enough to really make a big difference.

If you own your phone, take a look at GiffGaff. I think all their PAYG tariffs have unlimited calls and texts, so the cost depends on how much data you want. I have 3Gb for £6 per month on my phone and I think 20Gb for £10 on my iPad.

@LoandBeahold - we live abroad unfortunately but ours was €35 originally and then kept increasing every year. Until it was €68. And annoyingly only allowed new customers to sign up to better offers.
Left and new company €30.

I might resign back with old one though now as better consistency with speeds. But we had to leave at least 12 months to go back. And now we can join as ‘new customer’

Changed home internet provider

Would appreciate recommendations.

We pay EE (BT) £30 per month.

Was going to say the same.

My kids are all on Lebara, and it's great. I'm tempted to switch in Dec, but I know I'll be dazzled by the thought of a new handset haha

@Bambamhoohoo . Do you not have anything better to do?

so do you go around telling people who are struggling with money to cancel their Netflix? Otherwise your response doesn’t make any sense. It’s not about you, it’s about people who tell others to cancel their Netflix 🤷🏼‍♀️

Yes it’s not just ‘Netflix’, but cancel or downgrade any subscriptions where possible.

Last year we ditched Spotify, and apple. Downgraded Netflix. Changed home internet provider, swapped x4 phone contracts (2 private, 2 business). Maybe some other ones I forgot. But it saved us €115 a month! So about €1500+ in savings since so just swapping providers or ditching things we didn’t use.

When I mentioned to Sil at the time she was like ‘ oh I couldn’t be bothered with the hassle of swapping’.

I have Netflix with ads and an Amazon fire stick. I'll be cancelling Sky TV once my contract is up, it will save me a fortune.

Sometimes it could be used to mean Netflix literally but more often than not, I think people use it as a common placeholder phrase or expression for cancelling a small and nonessential expense (and many of these small, nonessential expenses add up over time).

When people say “cancel Netflix” I take it to sometimes mean literally cancelling Netflix or cancelling several small ‘Netflix-like’ subscriptions e.g. cancelling Hello Fresh, Gusto Box, foregoing their weekly Starbucks, cancelling Spotify premium etc.