Subscription Audit, step by step
A single hour, typically worth several hundred a year.
- List every recurring paymentTwelve months of statements, not one. Annual renewals hide.
- Mark each: use, sometimes, neverBe honest about 'sometimes'.
- Cancel the nevers todayNot at renewal — now, before you forget.
- Downgrade the sometimesMany services have a cheaper tier that is never advertised.
- Diarise the renewalsA reminder a week before each annual charge.
Commonly forgotten
- Cloud storage
- Apps billed annually
- Free trials that converted
- Gym memberships
- Duplicate streaming services
Cancelling through the app store is different from cancelling in the app. Check both.
Questions about the Subscription Audit poster
- What’s on the Subscription Audit poster?
- 5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. A single hour, typically worth several hundred a year. List every recurring payment — Twelve months of statements, not one. Annual renewals…; Mark each: use, sometimes, never — Be honest about 'sometimes'.; Cancel the nevers today — Not at renewal — now, before you forget.; Downgrade the sometimes — Many services have a cheaper tier that is never advertised.; Diarise the renewals — A reminder a week before each annual charge.. Cancelling through the app store is different from cancelling in the app. Check both.
- Who is the Subscription Audit poster for?
- Subscription Audit belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning basics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Subscription Audit poster?
- Search your statements for the same amount on the same date each month. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Subscription Audit belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Subscription Audit?
- Structuring Accounts, The 50/30/20 Budget and How You Pay Changes What You Spend sit alongside Subscription Audit in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Structuring AccountsThe 50/30/20 BudgetHow You Pay Changes What You Spend
- Is the Subscription Audit poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Subscription Audit downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Subscription Audit poster print at?
- Subscription Audit is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Subscription Audit loses nothing.Printing guide
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