I canceled Prime a few years ago and haven't looked back. I buy books from Barnes & Noble or Bookshop.org, or directly from the publisher. If I need electronics

I canceled Prime a few years ago and haven't looked back. I buy books from Barnes & Noble or Bookshop.org, or directly from the publisher. If I need electronics, I go to my local Best Buy. For regular household goods and cleaning supplies I go to your average supermarket. I canceled Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and Dropbox forever ago but I do subscribe to iCloud, Apple Music, and HEY.com for email. I don't own a TV, but I'll buy or rent movies on AppleTV from time to time and we'll stream those on the laptop before bed. I haven't had social media accounts since high school—no LinkedIn, no Twitter, no Facebook, no personal website. It's better this way. I did buy good speakers for the living room, and these days I try to treat music listening as an "event" of sorts, instead of mindlessly putting in ear buds and compulsively skipping songs, bouncing between playlists, or listening to podcasts that I immediately forget. There was no "final straw" for me, these services just weren't needed. There are so many ways to consume and create that don't require a subscription.