This is my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show.

Our mission is to serve and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your

life.

Today's episode, pandemic may have fattened some of your bills and I need you to pay attention.

I'll tell you how.

Also, have you been receiving fraud alerts on your phone?

I have a special warning for you later in the show.

So right now, we're going to talk about subscriptionitis.

There's got to be a better term for it.

But subscriptionitis is something that has infected so many of us.

And there is a cure, like many ituses, there's not a cure.

But there is one to subscriptionitis.

This is where you sign up for a trial, free trial offer, you sign up for a subscription

to something.

And life gets busy.

You're not using whatever it is.

You're not getting good use out of it.

But more often, you're not using it at all.

And that's money just going out the window.

There have been anecdotal reports that the number of subscriptions people have to various

things went way up through the pandemic year.

And people are subscribed to a lot of things that aren't relevant in their lives.

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