First off, i totally agree with this statement:
Here’s how you can use the A La Carte Method for yourself. Cancel all the discretionary subscriptions you can: your magazines, annual Rhapsody plan, cable — even your gym. (It would be totally ridiculous to cancel your Internet, though. I’d cry like a little girl if I couldn’t get online from my house.) – emphasis mine
Now on to the meat. Ramti Sethi @ I Will Teach You To Be Rich has a look at the psychology of subscriptions and how its much better in most cases to buy things a La Carte as you use them.
The A La Carte Method: Use Psychology Against Yourself to Save Money
We are going to give this a whirl. There are enough choices now to download shows from iTunes and Amazon unBoxed that i think its possible, combined with the network shows we can get in HD via the Over the Air antenna that we can save money on the $65.00 per month Directv bill.
Comcast is no cheaper and the cost just goes up to add the capability to receive HD signals through the satellite. So we are going to try the internet.
To be fair, i can’t live without a Tivo (so dramatic!) so we are getting a TivoHD to record the network shows we do watch. Its a shame that Directv decided to orphan Tivo when moving to HD. This radical thinking may have never come up.
