You’ll spend almost $200,000 in your lifetime on streaming, cable TV, mobile, and internet

A new report on consumer media spending puts your monthly bills in perspective.

We often consider the significant purchases in our lives to be the big-ticket items: a home, a nice car, or a college degree. Not many of us would expect our subscriptions to streaming services, mobile phone plans, cable TV, and internet over our lifetime to approach or even exceed some of those traditional big-ticket items—but a new report from Reviews.org finds that they will.