Ditch Cable TV and Save Money with These Viewing Alternatives

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3. Take Out Subscription to Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix

To watch all of your favorite shows and movies, you can use a combination of streaming services, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix. All three have huge catalogs of all the movies and TV you could ever want. It’s as simple as opening the app, searching for the shows you want and clicking play. There’s no need to wait a week for the next episode either.

By subscribing to all three services, it still works out much cheaper than your monthly cable bill. A one-year subscription to Amazon Prime is $99 (or $8.25 per month), Netflix is $10.94 per month and a commercial-free version of Hulu is $13.13 a month. In total, that’s only $32.32 every month. If you’d like extra channels you can buy add-ons for your Amazon Prime membership for as little as $3.99 per month, too.

If you want to unsubscribe, you can choose to drop your Prime add-ons, Netflix, or Hulu at any time. But for Amazon Prime, you need to take a twelve-month subscription. However, these services usually offer a one-month free trial period so that you can take a 30-day test drive before you buy.