No changes yet but working on convincing my youngest to cancel our Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ subscription as the price keeps climbing and climbing.
We actually talked the other day and canceled our legacy bundle. We never watch Hulu and rarely ESPN+. I'm pretty sure they really only watched Bluey on Disney+ and honestly, I can put the Bluey channel on YouTube and they would be happy. It's $27/month I just don't need to spend. I also stopped our Max sub for a little while, so that was $10/month.
not to entice you to spend but if you are inclined to keep some of this streaming stuff and want to save some $$-we recently looked at all of our subscriptions and cancelled some to do a Disney+/Hulu/Max bundle. the three together (with ads) runs $19.99 BUT if you have an American Express card there's an offer where if the subscription autopays from the card you get a $7 per month credit back each month from American Express so it lowers the cost (esp. from individual subscriptions) considerably.
They should really teach us how to deal with aging parents and this stuff. Even asking the person at DSHS didn't get me anywhere, there's nowhere she could direct me for help on how to handle it.
it's SO HARD and I get it from both standpoints. as a soon to be 'official' senior citizen I understand not wanting to let go of some aspects of control (esp. financial) but as someone retired from dshs and seeing how much MORE creative scamming has gotten combined with how confusing and complicated some day to day let alone annual process have become it's just ripe for elder financial abuse
one resource that can provide some guidance that I highly recommend for advice/resources is your local ombudsman.I'm dealing with this so much with my mom. She just can not wrap her head around the fact that she can't spend what she used to when my dad was alive and working. She has a fixed income. She has a set amount of bills. But she constantly spends on nonsense and I have to figure out how to cover whatever bill is coming up that she can't because she spent money I told her not to.
idea?suggestion? i'm the legal guardian of my disabled adult son but that doesn't include his financials (it's a GOD AWFUL complicated process/reporting requirement in our state and since his only income is SSDI we did'nt pursue it). I still handle his bills and such but he wants (needs and deserves) some financial autonomy so to ensure his bills are covered and to protect against overspending/financial abuse what we've done is-
his income goes into a bank account that has no debit card associated with it and it's set up to auto pay his regular bills. it's also set up to auto transfer to a separate account (that he DOES have a debit card for) his monthly budget amount that he can reasonably spend without messing up his budget. we purposely set up this account so it's not eligible for overdraft so he can't overspend and have it pulled from the account that needs to cover his bills.
there's also the method we used with our oldest in college-we got a single VERY LOW limit credit card in our name with the kiddo as the authorized user (so no ability for authorized user to change the credit limit)-low as in what the monthly budget was maxed at. kiddo could keep track of spending
or call the 800 number and find out what the current balance was but when it maxed out in a given month that was it on spending for non emergent (and in that case we could always pay down the balance to allow for an emergent charge). it got paid in full every month as a budget line item just like other monthly bills from kiddo's monies.
it's because of you (my adult kids being the 'you's') that I get constant 'we found something you might like' notices from 