Subscriptions are a bit of a trap. You sign up for a one week, two weeks, or month free trial. All you need do is provide your credit card to sign up. Even things you know you want are a bit of a trap ...

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...