Canceled Amazon Prime and it feels GREAT

I’ve been an Amazon customer since the early days when they had just expanded beyond books, like 2003-2004ish. Since the pandemic I have spent untold amounts of money for the convenience of almost never having to go to a physical store. I even got the credit card. The prices weren’t great, the customer service was bad, but I could live with the trade-off. But over the past year I’ve felt like crap every time I ordered something. Did I really need the XSPORGLE brand shoes or the SWOOTYPOO food storage containers or the MUDPLUQ pillow cases? Probably not, and if they didn’t get delivered to the wrong apartment or stolen off the doorstep, they’d probably end up in a landfill in a year or two anyway. So much of my money was going to an *sshole billionaire oligarch who treats his employees like trash and is more interested in living on Mars than using his incomprehensibly large mountain of money to solve problems on earth. I work in public service and it all just felt diametrically opposed to my values as well as wasteful. So last month I canceled Prime. I’ve already saved some money by simply not buying stuff as soon as I think of it. I’m currently working on a list of businesses (local as well as somewhat less awful corporations) I can patronize instead, and in general thinking harder about what I actually need in my life and how quickly I need it. Sure, it’s going to be inconvenient at times, but I already feel so much better. If you’re thinking about canceling, I say go for it! No regrets so far.