Cutting costs = cancel Netflix?

I would imagine those suggestions aren't aimed at people with one £4.99 subscription. It's more checking your outgoings and those people who have the advert-free subs for Disney, Netflix and Apple, plus Spotify and Now TV, who haven't really realised how much it's all totting up to,

And sometimes they just absorb the cost into the Prime accounts so you can't see the p&p costs.

At work we were looking at getting something for £155, with £4.99 p&p for delivery next days or free for delivery within a week.

One of the chaps said he was on Prime so he'd get it delivered next day for free, so he'd order it.
He logged in to his account and discovered the item was listed on there as £159.99 with delivery next day.
He didn't have the choice of paying less and waiting a week.

So actually he was paying for Prime to get the item at best the same price, but he didn't have the choice of paying less either. Right scam.

Have a look on the Martin Lewis Money Saving Expert website as they summarise the latest deals. I swapped 3 sim only’s to 75p a month each for 35gb and no roaming fees through finding the deal on there.

Totally agree with you. I need to look at cutting costs but a 4.99 Netflix subscription isn’t going to make a big difference in the grand scheme of things! My bigger costs like the mortgage, energy, water, council tax there is no way of reducing and that’ll what makes the difference

This. Netflix can be cancelled at any time so we only have it when the clocks change in October until summertime restarts again in March. Don't have time for it in the summer and means no excuse not to get outside.

I’m with o2 sim only package. It’s a Apple se

Netflix is crap in my opinion.
Never anything i want to watch on it.
My sister had it so thought id have a look first.

Turns out you can get the same shows films plus loads more on Westream and its totally free.

So we pay £40 a month for x2 sim only deals Tesco mobile and sky mobile unlimited data and unlimited every thing not a bad deal wouldn't get less personally so this works for us

Netflix is £5.99 a month with adds sometimes cancel and have a few months of it if get bored of it

Work lunches are made at home
No take out coffee

Broadband is £28 a month

Theirs no other things we pay for subscription wise

Non subscription wise we have a takeaway twice a month

Because Netflix means all streaming accounts, it's like hoover, biro, cashpoint, fibreglass, jet ski, lilo etc

@stayathomer NOW TV is SKY content, but loads cheaper. They have entertainment, cinema, sports and Hayu available as separate packages so you can opt for what interests you.

I think it's often an accumulation of a lot of small things that aren't really essential that suddenly adds up to £100 a month or something. I think people do lose track of the 'small change' so to speak, with people writing off each one as insignificant.

It’s even cheaper when you don’t pay it all and watch it anyway.

Also you can share ad free Netflix with one person you don't live with which takes it down to £9.49 per month each

It depends if you use it and how much you pay. Some people pay 12.99 for ad free or 18.99 for a bigger package. We tend to watch a lot and then it tails off. So we have one subscription at a time, cancel it once we're not using it and watch iPlayer etc and then start a different subscription once we've watched most things we want to.

Yes there’s loads of things I’d stop before Netflix. We watch it most nights.
A friend got in big financial difficulty when her DH lost his job and she immediately cancelled everything. I suggested maybe the case of wine she went through every week or the two storage units they had were better places to look to save money, but she said she needed her wine more than ever! I do believe she consolidated her storage though!

There are only 4 networks in the UK, the smaller companies piggy back on the big names.
We also only get decent signal with the Vodafone network but are currently with Lebara. I currently get 20gb for £7, pretty certain i have eu roaming. Most comparison sites allow you to search based on a network

Oh right. I think it was about £90 when I got rid of the telly.

I don't think it is expensive but I might do if I had to pay it. 45p a day is nothing is it when you get so much for it.

I stopped getting a newspaper when the prices went up. A daily newspaper is somewhere between £1 and £3.70. I miss it and reading online is not the same.

it was around £144 a year when I stopped using a tv - so that would be £2160

Ive not noticed any more than one an hour. I used to share Netflix with my dd before she moved out and we had the no advert package - iv now got the cheap package and haven't noticed much difference for my usage. TBH when I was in France for 4 weeks I didn't notice any adverts at all.

I get amazon prime - so both tv and package sent free and Netflix for £14 a month. But when im in France I cancel the prime as I don't need the tv programs or packages for free

@MikeRafone , it probably wasn't that amount because the price of a TV licence has quite a lot in recent years. I haven't had a TV for years. I didn't watch much but I miss it occasionally, and I'm aware that it affects my general knowledge.
I listen to the radio a lot, and I'm often surprised when I see photos of politicians or place names.

We get 30s of ads about 9nce a programme at most.
A lot less than the "terrestrial" channels. It feels like every 10mins on thise!

I would love to know the answer to this as well please and how many screens , we only need it on 2
I love Netflix and would happily downgrade to ads if this was the case. As it is we swap around between prime, paramount plus and Netflix and occasionally discovery plus all as free, but taking a different one each month or slightly longer if there's a good offer on.

I moved us all to Lebara for £1 a month for 6 months then it goes up to £5.99. Unlimited calls and texts and 10gb data.

Not sure if it's still on, check out the MSE website.

I haven't had a tv licence for 15/16 years - originally I didn't actually have a tv and then 3 years ago purchased a tv to watch Netflix and prime - I can't access bcc anyway so don't need one

Thats £2,617 I haven't had to pay

I feel the same about Sky.

We haggled down to £77 a month and we watch it every night. £2.50 a day for our evening entertainment. DH is a massive spots fan so watches all the sports.

I think the key is when this type of thing adds up, add in Apple tv, and Disney. Start a pet food subscription and then a Gusto.

Suddenly, like a pp said, a large chunk of money is committed each month and there's little wriggle room.