Keep your mind open and see where things lead
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to share a subscription. You can lower the cost, or at least get more fun and use out of a subscription by finding someone with a shared interest to share it with. Earlier this year, I finally decided to subscribe to the Allure Beauty Box. I'd heard about this subscription for years from people who liked the monthly shipments of sample sized beauty products. I don't use a ton of makeups or creams, but my daughter has been entering that stage and she likes playing around with different products. I figured maybe we could share a subscription. She could take the cosmetics and I would take the wrinkle creates, and that is what we have done. Whenever the box comes, we open it and split the loot. It's been a fun thing to do together, and we haven't had much conflict over two takes. What possibly because I am an adult and always give her first DIBs, but also because we like different things. More of the products get used, for sure than if I just had the subscription on my own. You may not be into the Allure beauty box, but perhaps there is some other subscription service that interests you. It might be hard to justify spending the money on something that's just fun. But if you split the subscription, you and someone else could both get used out of it and maybe each pay a little less. For instance, maybe you and a neighbor both like reading The Economist. That is not a cheap subscription, but maybe you split the cost and you work out a schedule for each of you sharing the issue that comes each week. Or maybe you and a friend both want to work out using an exercise video service. If you always watch the videos and do them to gather in the same room, it is perfectly legit to have one subscription for the two of you, and perhaps the bigger bonus you'll get to be working out with a friend. That's a lot more accountability. Now. Obviously, there are some limits to what you can do here. Netflix famously crack down on people sharing passwords. You can share a streaming subscription service with someone in your household, but probably not with a relative who lives two states over. I think there's also some question with stores that require a membership payment, whether you could, for instance, buy things for your sister while you're there, if you split the cost of a membership, I know people do this, but I'm certainly sympathetic that the stores might prefer you not do that. But what's something like, let's say a clothing service. If you and a friend are the same size, you could split what comes and get the buy at all discount. You could subscribe to a book of the month service, split the cost and agree to share these books with a friend with similar reading tastes. Each item gets more use or has more of a chance of getting used. You get to talk about the books with your friend, creating a mini book club, and the cost is lower. It might be worth giving it a shot. In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia. For more podcasts from iHeartMedia, please visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.