Things I pay for online

[llcoolvad]

Scalzi posted a list of all the subscriptions he pays for online, and to me it looks a little extravagant. Here's my list:

• Flickr pro account ($25 per year? something like that)
  
• Netflix including online access ($17 per month)
  
• Librarything lifetime membership (I think it was $20; that's the kind of fee I'm willing to pay)
  
• My domain and hosting (I paid for 2 years in advance, I think. $6 per month?)

Things Scalzi mentioned that I use but don't pay for:

• Livejournal x2
  
• Newspapers (NY Times, Boston Globe, others)
  
• Encyclopedias (while I was teaching, I had full access to the Simmons system which had every academic source you could think of; now I use the BPL and my local library network online when I need a reasonably vetted resource. Mostly I use wikipedia, tho)
  
• Streaming music (various places)

Things I've considered paying for:

• Metafilter account: ($5, I think lifetime? I should just do that)
  
• Wikipedia donation drives

Is there anything you pay for online that you consider totally worthwhile?

Comments

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

I guess not, unless paying for an internet connection counts. I'd have to count Netflix, but so far we haven't taken much advantage of the online stuff. One I seriously considered was 3WA.

Maybe justgive.org counts. I donate through them and by staying anonymous, I don't have to get piles of junk mail. It's not a subscription, though; they keep 3% of your donations for themselves.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I don't pay for anything online except Flickr (someone gifted me with a permanent LJ account).

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

Not at the moment. I pay for even less than you do: just the LibraryThing. I like one-off payments for things.

It's not totally unreasonable that I should pay for LJ, since it gives me so much pleasure, but I never have. I'm SLIGHTLY kicking myself that I managed to miss the Permanent Account sale on here, despite knowing when it was going to be. I would rather pay a single bigger fee than lots of smaller ones, but it was enough money that I had serious pause, since I can do all the important things for free and I don't suppose anyone cares that I only have six userpics. (If you could buy userpic add-ons with a Basic Account, I totally would.)

Every so often I consider paying for Flickr and then don't. If I could lifetime-member that, maybe I would.