How to Detect Subscription Creep by Parsing Your Bank Statements with Python

Ever look at your bank account and wonder where all the money went? Yeah, same. I recently sat down to audit my recurring charges and realized I was bleeding cash on subscriptions I'd completely forgotten about. Streaming services, audiobook platforms, cloud storage — the works. The annoying part? There's no single dashboard that shows you every recurring charge across all your accounts. So I did what any reasonable developer would do: I wrote a script. The Problem: Death by a Thousand Subscriptions Subscription creep is real. You sign up for a free trial, forget to cancel, and suddenly you're paying $14.99/month for something you used once in February. Multiply that by a dozen services and you're looking at a couple hundred bucks a month you didn't even notice. The root cause is simple: recurring charges are designed to be invisible. They're small enough that you don't notice them individually, and they blend into your statement noise. Your bank won't flag them because they're authori