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FREE Subscription Tracking for Cancellation

 I don't know if it's just where I live or it's national, but I've been seeing a *lot* of ads by Rocket Money the past few weeks talking about their app's ability to show you your monthly subscriptions and then cancel the subscription in the app.  Sounds pretty cool, right?

Right.  Until you (ironically) realize that to get the app that allows you to cancel paid subscriptions from the app requires...yep-a paid subscription.  Insert eye roll.  The free version of their app will show you your subscriptions, but you then have to the next 'extra' step by going to the service provider and cancelling.  

To be fair, I was rolling my eyes at this service even before I found out there was a charge for said service, because I've been using the same method for years, and it's never failed me.  No extra app required.  Here's what I do:

  1. Sign up for subscription of my choice and *pay attention* to the renewal date
  2. Make a note of this renewal date in my calendar and also make a note to 'keep or cancel subscription' one week before the renewal date to give myself time to think it over with intention-or time to cancel and deal with any ensuing shenanigans that usually come from cancelling a subscription
  3. Wait to get the calendar reminders for step 2 and action
That's it.  No extra app required.  And, as someone who lives and dies by their calendar, the 'effort' of putting this in the calendar is fine-and if anything, it's a good practice to force the awareness of the subscription in real time.  Easy peasy for me.

I realize that not everyone will want the added effort of this, but I suspect that most of us have these little hacks to avoid adding another app to their phone with just a few extra steps.  I'm all about keeping a clean phone and not using/having apps that aren't that valuable on a day to day basis, so what about you?  What's your app-cheat that you use?  Drop me a line below and share!

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