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It's no secret, we're all dealing with subscription creep
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And not just for streaming services. All types of subscriptions. Computer software, meal kits, health products, even subscriptions for our pets
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Today, I'm gonna share a tip that's helping me control streaming TV costs
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Maybe it'll help you, too. Take a look at this. 40% of the people who responded to my YouTube community poll said they pay for four or more
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streaming services. I'm one of them, but I recently set a goal to reduce paid subscriptions to three or fewer
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at a time. If you checked out my recent video, you know that to fight the cost of streaming TV, I'm
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only subscribing to services that I open up at least once a week
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Like a lot of people, I list all the services that I'm paying for in my monthly budget
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But when you sit down to relax and unwind, chances are you are not opening up a budget spreadsheet
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That's why I've brought this list to a place where I can't miss it. My remote
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This tip is the streaming TV equivalent of how people will label their credit cards to remind them about which categories earn bonus cash back
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The label on my Roku remote, it includes the names of the services and cancellation date reminders
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I have the label covering the four branded keys at the bottom of my remote
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I don't use those because they can't be reprogrammed. Basically, they're ads
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I found that smaller labels won't work. They don't stick to the rubber keys
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So that's why I ended up using a slightly larger label. I'll put the dimensions here, and that way it extends to the sides of the remote and
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will stay in place. This visual reminder has already helped me save money
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After just a couple weeks, I realized I wasn't using one of the services listed on my remote
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and I cancelled it earlier than I planned. Couple other notes. I thought the placement of the label might interfere with how I naturally hold my remote
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but that wasn't the case. And the label has actually stayed pretty clean
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If you're not sold on this idea of adding a label to your remote, you could always add
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this visual reminder somewhere else near your TV set. Here I've taped a list to the front of my Wi-Fi gateway
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Same idea. Prices aren't going down, so as consumers, we've got to make sure we're actually using
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the services we're paying for, cancel the ones we don't, and think twice before signing
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up and adding a new streaming service to the rotation. Give this video a like on your way out, and I hope to see you back here next time
