Science of Success: Is Your Home Oversubscribed?

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The Wall Street Journal

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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What makes your house a home? For starters, it’s spending time there, relaxing, cooking and watching TV. These days, that means lots of subscriptions, which also means lots of money. In fact, Americans spend billions of dollars on subscriptions they’ve actually forgotten about. On the Science of Success, WSJ’s Ben Cohen looks at the booming subscription business and ways to help you get that spending in check. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Sign up for the WSJ's free The Future of Everything newsletter. Further reading: The Real Reason You’re Paying for So Many Subscriptions Americans Are Canceling More of Their Streaming Services Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If only life had a remote control, you could pause or rewind.
0:03.6	Well, life doesn't always give you time to change the outcome, but pre-diabetes does.
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0:15.0	There are lots of things that make a house, a home.
0:22.0	Often it's the little things. to make a house a home.
0:22.8	Often it's the little things,
0:24.7	how we relax and unwind.
0:26.6	I will get home, and once all is said and done,
0:30.4	I can snuggle up on the couch
0:32.4	and read my fashion newsletters and they make my brains move and that makes my house a home.
0:37.0	How we care for ourselves.
0:39.0	I have a coffee subscription and I love it. It comes to my house, it's fresh, and I can just wake up and have coffee,
0:45.8	and that's just the best thing in the world to me.
0:48.8	How we care for our loved ones.
0:50.9	I get cat food sent to my house once every four weeks.
0:54.0	These days we subscribe to a lot of the things that make our home lives more comfortable.
0:59.0	I ask some of my colleagues here at the Wall Street Journal
1:02.0	about the subscriptions that help make their houses feel like home.
1:05.5	Whether it's newsletters, newspapers, coffee, or cat food, many of them, like many American households are subscribed. Think about it. How many things are you
1:17.2	subscribed to? Music, audio books, makeup, salads, razors, sub-stacks, toothbrushes, your dinner, your dog's dinner,
1:27.0	the number of subscriptions you have to manage is enough to make your head spin, at which point you could use a subscription to help you meditate.
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