You don’t need to tell us it’s a hectic world out there.
Between scurrying to the office, keeping the house reasonably neat and tidy, and trying to do some actual living in between, life can often feel like a whirlwind.
Most of us feel stress at some point - a 2024 survey by Ciphr found that 86 per cent of respondents felt strained at least once a month, and more than a third felt the pressure for 11 days or more every month.
It’s not that we’re not familiar with the concept of a subscription: last year’s European Subscription Wars report from Bango found Brits are spending an average of £696 a year on them, on top of regular household bills and despite cost-of-living worries. The problem is that £39 a month goes down the drain on unused subscriptions, says NatWest, with gym memberships and mobile phone contracts identified as the biggest wallet drainers.
Yet it needn’t be this way. By signing up for a few helpful little subscriptions, you can outsource the small stuff, checking them off your to-do list and freeing up your time for far more exciting things. Because look, life’s too short to worry about whether you’ve got enough loo roll at home.
Most of us are already signed up for subscriptions, be they popular streaming or music apps or multi-service deals like Amazon Prime membership, which offers video, music and gaming and free, fast deliveries, alongside several other perks.
Meal kit services like HelloFresh and Gousto inject newness into a tired dinner routine and let you skip supermarket trips entirely - something you’ll no doubt be grateful for after a long day in the office.
Cleaning subscriptions deliver household essentials regularly, ensuring you’re never without crucial laundry tablets or solutions to clean the bathroom with.
We’ve rounded up the best subscriptions to help you streamline your life below.
Sign up now - trust us, your future self will thank you.
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Homethings
If you think about how many products your home needs to run every day, you’ll easily spot ways to make your next purchases more eco-friendly and sustainable.
Or you could head to Dragons’ Den-approved Homethings, which has done all the research for you and collected their best finds online.
Shop here for laundry and general cleaning products, or opt for the Starter Bundle (£42.83) to try a bit of everything: think laundry sheets, dishwasher tablets, floor cleaner and bottles and sprays complete with refills - that should see you through a fair few months. Once you’ve worked through that lot, get refill bundles for £30.
Buy now £42.83, Homethings
Who Gives A Crap
With a name that won’t fail to raise a smile, eco-friendly toilet paper subscription service Who Gives A Crap offers the chance to bulk buy bog roll that’s 50 per cent as long as regular rolls and is made from recycled materials too.
The company donates 50 per cent of its profits to build proper sanitation facilities for third-world communities - it may be 2025, but billions around the world still don’t have access to a toilet. As well as bulk buying loo roll, you can also set up a subscription to deliver a box every 4 - 16 weeks so you’re never caught short again.
Not quite spending a penny, but for the good that buying WGAC does for communities and the environment, not to mention that jazzy packaging, it’s a worthy swap from your usual TP.
From £43 every two months.
Buy now £43.00, Who Gives A Crap
Smol detergent
Now, it’s probably not the most exciting subscription on our list, but who can deny that it’s a helpful addition?
Offering laundry, dishwasher detergent, cleaning sprays and sanitiser, Smol posts out concentrated cleaning fluid free from single-use plastic via the post, saving you up to 50 per cent on traditional brands.
Start things off with a free trial to see if the service works for you (you’ll need to cover a £1 postage fee, but that’s all), and if it’s a yes, you can then sign up for regular deliveries from £6 for 24 capsules. If you want whole-home cleaning from one place, Smol offers its Home Bundle from just £10.
Adjust the rate of deliveries to your needs, and cancel or modify your orders easily.
Buy now £1.00, Smol
Kiss the Hippo
If you can’t function in the AM without a hit of caffeine, this is the subscription service you need to sign up to. Delivering freshly roasted coffee to your address in packets (beans or ground) or organic coffee pods, you can adjust the weight, blend and frequency of delivery to suit your level of consumption.
The website is clean and easy to use with a streamlined form that allows you to get your order in fuss-free, whether it’s for the home, office or to be given as a gift.
Commitment-free, you can delay or cancel the service at any time.
Buy now, Kiss the Hippo
Nourished personalised vitamin stack subscription
All-in-one multivitamins are so last century. These personalised vitamin stacks are the latest, hi-tech way to get all the nutrients you need, without needlessly gulping down the ones you don’t. If you’re looking for one tablet to suit all ills, these 3D-printed stacks won’t fit the bill but they are perfect if you want a supplement designed for your unique needs, according to your diet, deficiencies and individual goals.
Before ordering, you fill in an easy quiz to work out exactly what will be in your stack. This covers how well you’re sleeping, how much exercise you do, how often you travel abroad, whether you wear glasses and if you suffer from a range of complaints including depression, IBS and low libido. You’ll also select your top two priorities, whether that’s to lose weight, manage stress better or delay ageing. A box of personalised vitamin stacks arrives in the post soon after and will be delivered every 28 days if you take out a subscription.
Each one is vegan and sugar-free and includes a combination of seven nutrients, selected to best suit your needs. Ours included the unusual Scutell-Up to help relieve stress and regulate sleep, vegan Vitamin D3 to boost natural immunity and support muscle function and Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin) to increase energy levels.
The chewy strawberry-flavoured gummy was a delight to eat too, so we actually looked forward to taking it every day and really did feel noticeably calmer and less tired almost immediately. We’d take them year-round if we could afford it.
Buy now £27.00, Nourished
Hello Fresh Food Box
Best for: wholesome meals for the whole family.
On a budget? Say hello to Hello Fresh, which offers ingredients to make meals for just £3.15 per serving.
Recipe boxes are packed with pre-measured locally sourced ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes that should take no longer than half an hour to make. Prepare to bring back the excitement to dinnertimes.
There are subscription options for single people as well as families, as well as dishes for vegetarians and the time poor with a section dedicated to 15-minute meals.
Feast on platefuls of Hoisin Chicken & Plum Stir-Fry, Pork Kofta Gyros (pictured) and Pork & Apple Burgers complete with wedges and salad. If you’re a new customer, you can get started with a 60 per cent discount on your first order.
A new collection now focuses on speedy lunch ideas like fresh salads and sarnies, ideal whether you’re heading back into the office or continuing to WFH. The menu includes delicious-sounding sarnies like Vietnamese Style Chicken Sandwich with Sriracha Mayo and Slaw and Serrano and Mozzarella Roll with Fig Jam and Rocket while salads include Pesto Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lettuce and Croutons and Falafel, Peashoot and Beetroot Salad with Dill Yoghurt Dressing. Bid goodbye to boring lunches with Hello Fresh.
From £3.15 per serving.
Buy now, Hello Fresh
Oddbox fruit and veg subscription
Best for: five-a-day and then some
Here’s a fact that will have you revelling in its lunacy: more than a third of the fruit and veg grown on Britain’s farms gets binned before it’s even left the fields from where it has been plucked. Why? Simply because it’s oddly shaped or a bit funny-looking.
That’s an obscene waste of perfectly good food, something this company was determined to do something about. Oddbox takes curvy carrots, odd onions, peculiar pears and more produce deemed too ‘ugly’ for the supermarket aisles and instead boxes them up for weekly drop-offs to London addresses.
This saves tasty produce from landfills and all packaging is 100 per cent recyclable or biodegradable. As far as delivery goes, you can have it sent to your home or office with a range of size options – small, medium and large – and with a combination of fruit and vegetables. You can also receive pure veg or pure fruit boxes as well as individual and family sizes which can be personalised to suit your needs.
Caring for planet and palates, signing up with Oddbox is an all-round win.
Oddbox donates 10 per cent of its produce to charity, including City Harvest.
Buy now £11.49, Oddbox
Kit & Kin Nappy Subscription
If you've got a little one running around, it can be hard to find the time to shower, never mind shopping for a fresh supply of nappies.
Let Kit & Kin step in and help with its nappy subscription, which brings down the cost by 20 per cent on each pack you buy.
Options include nappies with tabs or pull-up designs and you can choose sweet animal prints to make the job slightly more enjoyable for all involved. There are six sizes to choose from, with up to 152 nappies in a pack.
£29.56 for a drop every three weeks.
Buy now, Kit & Kin
Bloombox Club
When you don't have space or access to an outside area in London, houseplants offer a way to reconnect with nature.
They’re calming for the mind, body and soul, help oxygenate your space, and lower stress levels, so they’re well worth investing in.
If you're looking to introduce new green pals into your home or workplace, head to Bloombox Club. The plant subscription service sends a surprise plant in a pretty ceramic pot or a basket, complete with care instructions on a rolling monthly or quarterly basis. Oh, and if you’re worried about new plants agitating your furry friends, pet-friendly options are available too.
It's a great way to build your green oasis rather than being overwhelmed with too many plants to nurture at once.
Order on a monthly, quarterly, twice-yearly or annual basis.
From £128 per quarter.
Buy now £128.00, Bloombox Club
GLOSSYBOX Beauty Box Subscription
Glossybox’s instantly recognisable deliveries are housed in pastel pink boxes. The retailer already has over a million subscribers who no doubt wait in anticipation each month for the arrival of its five-strong content. The delivery contains at least £50 worth of goodies determined by themes or seasonally.
Glossybox spotlights lesser-known labels as well as well-established brands like Rituals, Medik8 and Innersense. While receiving the box each month, subscribers will have early access to limited-edition boxes and a discount on its hotly-awaited annual advent calendar.
You can sign up for a one-, three-, six- or 12-month subscription.
Buy now £11.50, Glossybox
Condé Nast Traveller Subscription
Inspire your loved one’s next travel destination with a one-year subscription to Condé Nast Traveller – who knows, they might be so grateful that they decide to whisk you away too.
You’ll get your first three issues for just a quid, which include the print and digital editions. The subscription then renews every six months at a cost of 19 - meaning you bank over 50 per cent of the cover price.
Passports at the ready.
Buy now £19.00, CN Traveller
HP Instant Ink
There’s less of a need to print things out these days, but for the occasions when you do, HP to the rescue.
The tech giant is helping your home office become a much greener space with its Instant Ink monthly subscription, which cuts ink cartridge wastage, as well as unsustainable supply chains and printing paper.
The Instant Ink service keeps watch over your ink levels, and when you’re starting to run low, cartridges are automatically shipped to your door before you run out - that’s planet-saving tech we can get on board with.
The delivery will also include pre-paid envelopes to return spent cartridges to HP to be recycled, omitting the journey to landfill completely and creating a circular economy.
From just 99p a month, and change, pause or cancel anytime at no cost.
Buy now £0.99, HP
Shelter Box
A book subscription service with bags of heart, Shelter Box offers a compelling opportunity to do some good and read a great book at the same time.
Each month, subscribers receive a book that they’ve collectively chosen (five options are floated by the head bookworm and members get to vote the one they want to read), each of which tells a story inspired by cultures, experiences and people in the real world.
A portion of the money you pay each month then goes towards a Shelter Box, which is filled with essentials such as tents, first aid supplies and toiletries to help rehabilitate families who have been hit by disaster.
You can pay as little as £10 a month, or opt to donate as much as you like.
Buy now £10.00, Shelter Box
