Question

Continuously going through my finances to see how I can cut unnecessary/optional costs! Called and got my car insurance reduced to $135- WIN! Also was paying $75 for internet alone- got it reduced to $55! WIN I don’t have cable (only Hulu/Disney + package, and share my sisters Netflix) Other things I’m having trouble parting with. -Apple Music $4. 99 (student account) -Apple iCloud $9. 99 (all my sons pictures I can’t part with) -Amazon $12. 99 Are there any other options to the above? What have you done to cut costs.  

Answer 1

Get yourself an external hard drive or multiple USBs to transfer your son's pictures to. You're spending $120/year to store pictures

Answer 2

Pay for Amazon for an entire yr up front. It's cheaper. Also what about putting the pictures on a flash drive?  

Answer 3

Girl if you’ve got amazon prime already that gives you access to amazon music, tv, and photos. The music is good and the tv is great! And ultimates photo backup storage and 5gb of video storage(you can upgrade for more)

Answer 4

Download everything from the iCloud, then transfer to your google drive. (Associated with a Gmail account) This is free and it works GREAT!  

Answer 5

Amazon Prime offers a student discount

Answer 6

If you have snap Amazon prime can be reduced to 5. 99 a month and u can food shop though prime it’s in the EBT app when u request the balance to your card

Answer 7

Use google photo to store all your photos for free!  

Answer 8

Google photos is significantly cheaper if you add storage like icloud drive. But icloud storage is basically the Same as getting an external hard drive.  

Answer 9

Amazon photos app! the good thing is that once downloaded on that app you can erase from your cellphone unlike the iCloud! & it’s free with amazon prime  

Comments

You still can't delete the pics from your phone once they're on the iCloud?  

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@guam441 nope! It’s pointless! That’s why they want you to buy that 2TB or whatever. Apple is great but they want alllll your money lol

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@guardhouse Thanks for this!  

Answer 10

Also- amazon prime student is only $50 for the year

Answer 11

Amazon photos I believe is free but also google photos is free I have over 2000 pics added to it already and thinking of adding another 3000 but haven’t done it yet since it so time consuming.  

Answer 12

We canceled our amazon prime last July. We still get free shipping on orders over $25 and usually get our items in 3-4 days.  

Answer 13

Amazon prime has free photo storage, which takes away the need for the ICloud expense

Answer 14

Nothing will take away your iCloud expense unless you want to permanently delete all those photos

Answer 15

Google photos instead of iCloud!  

Answer 16

I upload all my photos to FB albums and then delete them from my iPhone. ‍♀️

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@krueger fwiw, FB destroys the quality of the photo. If you ever wanted to get prints they would be super grainy

Answer 17

Quit going to Target. $130 each time. Go to Dollar General instead. save $65 hoping to lower it. lol

Answer 18

How are you able to get your bills powered? By threatening to leave?  

Answer 19

Amazon has a student price

Answer 20

I only pay $. 99 for my iCloud and I have over 2, 000 pictures with room for much more. Can you downgrade there? You could also look at putting the older ones on a usb Drive and putting it in a safe or safe place

Answer 21

Get a thumbdrive to move the pictures to. They are super cheap and then you can keep them in a safe place.  

Answer 22

Amazon has cloud storage for free for prime members. As many photos as you want. .  
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Photo...=UTF8

Answer 23

If you have Prime then you have free cloud backup for pictures. Download Amazon photos and back everything up there!  

Answer 24

Buy a hard drive to download all those pictures on  

Answer 25

Google photos app is free!  

Answer 26

Add your photos on your computer if possible or a jump drive or google photos it’s free!  

Answer 27

Verizon was offering Disney+ free for a year. Might still be offering that.  

Answer 28

Use google photos instead of iCloud. Free! Upload all your pics.  

Answer 29

Amazon Prime has free unlimited photo storage so you could migrate all of your iCloud photos over to Amazon and set up automatic backup from all of your devices.  

Comments

@clabber84015 they say unlimited. but they lie. I've maxed out mine.  

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@clabber84015 I have about 20, 000 pics!  

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@prude :: it’s unlimited photo storage but not unlimited video storage. I have about 25k pics in my account at the moment and I’m in the process of running a duplicator on them to get rid of the duplicates.  

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@representationalism :: I have 25k pics in my Amazon account so far  

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@clabber84015 that makes me feel better lol I’m transferring them now and it’s taking forever  

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Yup, I have about 23, 000 photos and they're all on Amazon Prime and I store them on an external hard drive cloud at home too.  

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@budge528 :: Amazon cloud and external hard drive at home for me too. I’m currently going through Miss Freddy ‘s digital photo organization course. It is soooo good and helpful!  

Answer 30

Use the student prime for 5. 99 per month

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@villatoro if I can remember my student password lol

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@representationalism lol  

Answer 31

Just a little info about amazon photo. The privacy laws are different between Apple and amazon. Apple is safer offers much more privacy than amazon does. Some people care about that stuff.  

Answer 32

Upload all your pics to a free Shutterfly account! I have mine as an app on my phone. Love love love it!  

Answer 33

- If you have Verizon you can get Disney+ for free for one year. - You can get free music through your Prime account

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@novercal I don’t have Verizon anymore but I will try out the music! Thanks

Answer 34

Amazon has a student account for half if you’re a student!  

Answer 35

Shutterfly is free storage. Don’t pay Amazon a penny

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@praenomen I’m keeping my prime though so I’ll take advantage of the free storage

Answer 36

Maybe split Amazon with a family member?  

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@villatoro Anderson my sister shares with me but I just pay it

Answer 37

Just FYI you can get amazon prime for free for 6 months if you’re a student then after that it’s only $6. 50 monthly

Answer 38

I am switching from T-mobile to Mint Mobile ( I heard is the same coverage but mint is cheaper) I was paying $80 something, changed to simple plan $50 now and I’m going to $20($60 3 month plan ) to Mint. and 8Gb data. I had only 2. I’m giving a try. I don’t have cloud I use external hard drive. and google photos I have only 3 credits card but only use one

Answer 39

Switch to Google pictures it's free