Giving up Prime is a major pain, depending on how many of these services you use.

Is now the time?

I finally let our Amazon Prime membership expire in the fall of 2020 and haven’t looked back.

A tiny robot made from Amazon boxes sitting in the fork in a tree.

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The friction from thinking you need something to having it delivered to your door is almost zero.

And with Prime, you could get next-day or same-day delivery with no extra charge.

That makes Amazon a hard habit to break.

A shipping warehouse full of boxes and plastic bins.

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I wish more people would consider whether Amazon Prime is actually serving them well in its entirety."

But morally, it’s another story.

Then we get to Amazon’s warehouse and delivery employees.

Barely a week passes without another news story that mirrors theNYT’s big 2021 expose inside Amazon’s warehouses.

Buying from the retail giant is a tacit acceptance of those practices, yet we all still do it.

But it’s not impossible to quit the behemoth.

You just begin by canceling your Prime subscription.

Quitting Prime doesn’t mean leaving Amazon altogether.

We just want to stop using it as our default.

And when you do finally decide to quit, Amazon won’t want to let you go so easily.

Implication is that you’re rage-quitting early.

Which, maybe I should!"