Last month I sat down and actually went through every recurring charge on our family's bank statements.

The damage:

• 6 streaming services ($78/mo) — we watched 2 of them

• 4 AI/app subscriptions ($52/mo) — used 1 regularly

• 3 fitness/wellness apps ($37/mo) — my wife used one, the rest were ghosts

• Cloud storage on 3 platforms ($24/mo) — could've been 1

• 2 meal kit services ($56/mo) — we'd paused-then-forgot both

Total: $247/month on stuff we weren't using. That's almost $3,000/year.

The wild part? We're not careless with money. We just… forgot. A $6.99 here, a $12.99 there. None of them are big enough to trigger alarm bells individually. But stacked up? It's a car payment.

The fix wasn't canceling everything — it was rotating. We keep 2 streaming services active per month based on what shows are dropping, and pause the rest. Same with fitness apps.

Month 1 savings: $163. And we didn't lose access to a single thing we actually wanted.

If this sounds familiar, that's exactly what we built TrimStack to solve.