It’s a brand-new year, which means two things:
1. I’m still writing “2025” on every form, and
2. I’m staring at my bank statements like a detective in a true-crime documentary, trying to figure out who subscribed me to all these services.
Spoiler alert: it was me. Past Me. Over-caffeinated, over-optimistic, “New Year, New Organizational System” Me. That Me apparently believed I needed 72 streaming platforms, 14 productivity apps, and a newsletter about Scandinavian mushroom foraging.
I do not forage mushrooms.
I barely forage in my own fridge.
So here I am, first month of the year, bravely beginning my Subscription Purge. The ritual cleansing no one warns you about, but everyone eventually faces.
First up: LinkedIn Premium. Yes, it’s a business expense. Yes, I should probably use it more. Do I?
Absolutely not. I’m not even sure what the premium features are anymore. Does it send me a gold badge? A secret handshake? A carrier pigeon with career advice? Because if so, the bird got lost.
Then there are the streaming platforms. All of them. Every last one. We live in a world where we pay for five different apps only to end up watching the same comfort show on repeat. And the irony? I actually pay for one service that streams commercials like it’s their job. Why am I paying to watch ads? That feels like a disorder in the DSM-6 waiting to be written.
And let’s talk email lists. Somehow I’ve ended up subscribed to companies I don’t remember meeting. Brands I did not knowingly invite into my inbox.
Daily emails with subject lines like “Act Now!” and “Your Exclusive Offer Ends Today!” Ends today?
It ended for me the moment I realized I didn’t know who you were.
Honestly, most of the content is useless. I signed up for a discount one time in 2017 and now they email me every day like we’re in an overly clingy relationship.
Please. Let me breathe.
The truth is, part of me wonders if I’ll miss the clutter. Will I feel a little lonely without the constant background noise of digital chaos?
Will I wake up and think, “Gosh, I really miss that newsletter about artisanal pickles”? Possibly.
But that just means I need better hobbies. Maybe knitting. Maybe kickboxing. Maybe alphabetizing my spices. Something that doesn’t involve managing 400 digital subscriptions.
So here I go, canceling, deleting, unsubscribing. Shedding digital weight like I’m preparing for a minimalist Olympics. I’m clicking “Unsubscribe” with the passion of a thousand newly motivated January souls.
Categories: identity, mental health, Pop Culture, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
I always go on a subscription purge thinking I will be free from the barrage only to find there is new barrage to wade through. When do these subscriptions happen? Will I ever be aware when I am subscribing? No idea. But purge I will, and subscribe I will, and it will go on being a vicious and horrible cycle. That, as my four year old always tells me, is how the world works.
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📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
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“Whoosh”
Yep That’s ‘Who’ “Whoosh”
“Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
Too much information running through my brain
Too much information driving me insane
I’ve seen the whole world six times over
Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover
I’ve seen the whole world six times over
Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover
Overkill, overview
Over my dead body
Over me, over you
Over everybody”
Dear Lord And That Was
Way Way Way Way Back in 1981
When When When When ‘The
Police And Sting’ Though IT Was A Problem
Then
Now
Fast Forward
to a Day in a Life
of a Busy Health Care
CEO Yes You
Dear Miriam
And Add This to All of That Yes
“72 Streaming Platform Subscriptions
14 Productivity Apps” And All the Rest
That Goes With an Information Age of
Data Download
Data Download
Data Download
In every way Still
To Come Through
Human iMaGINaTioN
CREaTiViTY And Technology Set Free
To Simulate A Universe Next With Yes
A New Trademark of What the ‘AI Folks’
Name as ‘The Galactic Brain’ Along With
The
“Universal
Assistant”
And Now Then Finally
AI Will Be able to
Comment on And Yes Assess
All 14.8 MiLLioN Words
Over 130 Thousand Photos
And Over 10 Thousand YouTube
Videos for How All of That Fits Together
to Make The ReTirement Hobby of EPiC
Long Form Poem
“SonG oF mY
SoUL” That
Currently
Word Press
And Other
Platforms
Hold On THeir Own
Along With the 23,077
MiLes of Public Dance
in the Last 148 Months
As i Edge Closer to the
Distance Around the
Equator
Too
Yet You See this is Just Metrics
Only Metrics Hehe The Only Way i Can
Possibly Do this Now is Focus NoW oN
Just One Move of Holy Dance
Now Or One Word of Sacred
Song Now New too
If THere Were Any New
Other Distractions Now
Hehe i’d Fall through
The
Cracks
of my Mind Now too hehe
Other than that Not Unlike
The Original “Jaws Movie”
It Looks i’m ‘Gonna Need A Bigger
Boat’ or i’m Gonna Have to Finally
Break Down and Do Some House
Keeping on Storage areas that
Started Out
EPiC IN Size
of Empty
Now Allmost
ALL
Filled Up
With
TOO MUCH
INFORMATiON
hehe yet out of
sight out of mind
Thank God’s of
SSD Drives and Such as that
Just Buy another one to avoid
IT Housekeeping Now Oh Yes
With
SMiLes
Anyway Beats Cutting
Down 14 Trees What
it Would Take to Put it
on
Paper hehe..:)
Without the
Dance Videos
And YouTuBE MuSiC
If that were even possible HAha…
Use The Tool Yet Do Not Become
Used or Abused By The Tool
Master The Tool Do Not
Become Slave of the Tool
And if i have anyThing to
Do With IT AI Will
Blow
A
Fuse
Trying
to be me HAha…
Meanwhile Just
Another TireLess Slave
For RetireMent Now For Real…
With
Zero
Subscriptions
to anything associated
With TV Except for my Wife’s
AT&T including Direct TV,
Internet, And Wireless, A
Monthly Package
More Than What
What We Used to
Pay for Mortgage
And Still Pay For Home
Insurance in Hurricane Land
And Dear Lord Twice as Much
For Health Insurance even Subsidized
By Federal Government Retiree Benefits
On the Other
Hand Our Electric
Bill is Still Usually
Under A Hundred Bucks
As We Don’t Have a
MacMansion to Weigh Us Down
to Pay
Check
to Pay
Check No More No More No More
Okay That Just About Covers IT hehe…
Every Day Every Day i Give Away Almost
As Much
Information
As i Take In
As Always
With More to come…
Yet the ‘Off Switch’
Will Resolve All These
Issues Just Subscribing
to Nature Naked Enough
Whole Complete
Switch
Hit i
Will Do too
With No
Remote Control…
Other than that
Just another
‘day
in a life’ of
-“Whoosh”..:)
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I’ve been trying to do the same – and I’m now utterly sick of the people who have taken their free blog to Substack and monetized it. If you go for the free option (which they warn you is very limited), the nagging is ENDLESS to upgrade to paid.
PLEASE! Their blog was barely worth reading when it was part of a daily round of blogs – there is no way in California I’m paying for it now, and the inflated ‘content’ they seem to now require of themselves.
I’m unsubscribing like mad.
You go, girl!
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Same here, I am still deciding what MUST go…having 7 siblings with extended families and grands…so many social networks…I forget who is who??? Yikes…🙃
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