Recently I've become pretty disgusted with the amount of money I pay (*waste) for these services.
I've spent the few weeks making a concerted effort to cut costs.
Firstly, I cancelled DirecTV @ $125/month. I bought an OTA antenna and 2 Roku boxes. My antenna pulls about 55 stations between Madison and Milwaukee, including the majors like ABC, CBS, PBS, Fox, etc... FREE. The Roku boxes give me over 600 "channels" of live streams and on demand content - hundreds of thousands of things to watch. FREE.
Also have a Netflix subscription - $8/month.
I slashed my internet speed and am now paying $18/month.
Sprint has a new plan for unlimited calls/text for $45/month. Boom. Don't need "data", can do that through my wifi.
For a home phone I have a magic-jack. $20 year, call anywhere in the US. Works beautifully. Doubles as a fax line.
And auto insurance - I shopped around. Those cute little Geico commercials have some truth to them. They cut my auto insurance from ~$45/month to $24/month.
So, when added altogether, it's roughly $98/month for all the above services. I am saving THOUSANDS per year now.
Just some food for thought for anyone looking to cut costs.