Get It Together: Monitor Your Monthly Service Subscriptions

Get It Together is a series of small tasks you can do to help get your home and life back in order. Each task is meant to only take 15 minutes or less to complete. Get ready, get set, get it together!

Monitor Your Monthly Service Subscriptions

• These days many people subscribe to services that charge monthly. They could be entertainment services, business services, or some sort of club.
• Review your credit card and bank statements from the last two months to see what you're currently paying for monthly.
• Sometimes we subscribe to something and stop using the service, forgetting that we're still "conveniently" being charged on a monthly basis.
• Cancel subscriptions that you no longer use.
• Decide if it's worth keeping subscriptions to things that you maybe really don't have a use for or that didn't turn out to be as great as it sounded.

Bonus: Create a calendar reminder about these monthly charges so that you don't forget that they're being auto charged to your account.

Get It Together: Evaluate Your Magazine Subscriptions

Get It Together is a series of small tasks you can do to help get your home and life back in order. Each task is meant to only take 15 minutes or less to complete. Get ready, get set, get it together!

Evaluate Your Magazine Subscriptions

• With information becoming more digital, even magazines have taken to the electronic format. Most subscriptions can be turned digital through a tablet.
• Do you have the time to read magazines?
• Do you read them in a timely manner (without letting months pile up)?
• Most companies will send you a refund for the remaining balance of what you didn't receive if you cancel your subscriptions. (I'd certainly check first, before cancelling and just throwing your subscription away without getting anything back.)

Bonus: Do the same with newspaper subscriptions!

Get It Together: Unsubscribe from Email Lists

Get It Together is a series of small tasks you can do to help get your home and life back in order. Each task is meant to only take 15 minutes or less to complete. Get ready, get set, get it together!

Unsubscribe from Email Lists

• As your email comes in this week, take the time to analyze what you receive in your inbox.
• Do you really want to be subscribed to everything that comes in, or does it waste your time every day as you sort through and delete most of it?
• I've noticed lately that I find clearing out my email to be a tedious task every day after work because most of it I never actually take the time to look at.
• Hopefully this tasks serves as a way to save you time in the future - less time spent hitting the delete button!