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The Prompt That Saved Me Over $300 in 5 Minutes
I fed ChatGPT my subscriptions and it politely told me to get it together. You should do the same.

Remember when you swore this would be the year you got your finances together?
You were going to track every expense, stick to a budget, and finally figure out where all your money was going?
Yeah. Me too.
Instead, I found out we’ve been paying $12.99 a month for an app that teaches birds how to sing. I don’t even own a bird. I don’t even like birds…
So I did what any overwhelmed, sleep-deprived, mentally-maxed-out parent would do:
I asked AI to audit my subscriptions and gently roast my spending choices.
If you’re ready to cancel the chaos (and maybe a few charges), this week’s prompt is for you.
And if you’re ready to be the parent that other parents look at and ask, “How do you get all of this stuff done?”, check out the prompt toolkit here. We put together 75 more ideas for you to be the superhero parent you dreamed of being.
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Prompt That Changed My Week
Let’s be real—when I looked at my bank statement last week, I found three charges I couldn’t explain and one that just said “GOOSEBUMPS WORLDWIDE.”
Turns out, I’ve been paying for 3 streaming services to watch the same 2 shows, a meditation app I haven’t opened since 2022, and some "premium" feature I didn’t even know I subscribed to (probably clicked a button by accident while holding a toddler).
So I fed all my subscriptions into ChatGPT and asked it to call me out—with love. It did.
This week’s prompt is your gentle-but-firm subscription intervention. Try it. Just... brace yourself.
Here’s a list of my current subscriptions: [paste]. Can you identify which ones cost more than the industry average, recommend cheaper alternatives or downgrades, and flag anything that looks unnecessary based on typical usage?”
You might feel personally attacked. You might discover you’ve been funding five separate cloud storage apps. But you’ll also feel weirdly powerful once you see where your money’s been sneaking off to.
Go on. Audit like the financially responsible adult you pretend to be on Instagram.
Pro Tip: Take the pdf of your Credit Card statement and input it into ChatGPT to pull out all your subscription payemnts for the month.
3-Minute AI Win
So you found the sneaky charge.
Maybe it was for a subscription you swore you canceled. Or a “free trial” that ghosted you straight into a $19.99 monthly commitment.
You’re fired up. You want justice. But instead of firing off a rage email that starts with “DEAR CORPORATE LEECHES,” you remember: you’re classy (and also, you want your money back).
That’s where AI comes in.
Can you write a short, polite message I can send to customer service asking to cancel a subscription I no longer use and request a refund for any recent charges?
Copy. Paste. Refund request = handled.
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