

So now the two of the biggest tech companies get $1.99 and 99 cents from me every month.

Luckily that meant charging just under $1 a month for 50 GB of online storage, but still I'm cheap and it adds up. After seven years of iPhone ownership it was time to pay up.

Again the 5 free GB couldn't keep up with the realities of my digital life. My mom had to cough up the nearly $2 monthly charge for her personal email account last week.Įven on my iPhone I relented to the endless pressure from iCloud to buy more storage space. My boyfriend recently hit the same Gmail storage roadblock and started forwarding emails to his various work accounts. I know it's not just me giving in reluctantly to the auto-subscription. The good times had come to an end and it looked like shelling out nearly $24 a year to a company that makes $109.65 billion in annual revenue. I'd been so cocky for 12 years, thinking I could string out my free 15 GB of free Google Drive storage (that includes my emails, Documents, Sheets, Photos - my entire online life, basically). My credit card is auto-charged once a month so I can have space on Google Drive.
