Cutting costs = cancel Netflix?

[Lykke1000]

Inspired by a previous thread about coping on a high salary with a breakdown of all monthly expenses.
Have you noticed that the expenses that always get mentioned are subscriptions, especially Netflix. My Netflix is £4.99 and just looked up that Disney is the same. Sound weirdly out of proportion to suggest cutting it out first thing. True, it’s not essential but if at least one person in the family actually uses it daily then it’s a pretty cheap per hour of entertainment.
TV licence is another story ( I don’t pay it as I genuinely don’t need it).

A takeaway coffee or a pint (once a month) costs the same but is way worse price for 15 mins of entertainment.

What are your thoughts?

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 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.

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 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.

Agree i love netflix too much 😉