Set a calendar reminder for every 3 months called "subscription check in" and just go down the list of what's pulling from your account. I do it with my daughter every quarter and we always find at least one thing that's been sitting there for months unused. The cloud storage one got me too actually... I was paying for extra iCloud space for two years after I switched to Google Photos without thinking to cancel it.

The 1970s houses in Phoenix are notorious for that kind of mess, especially with the old cloth wiring they used. The hot neutral you described is a bootleg ground situation but it's actually a bootleg neutral since the switch leg got tied into the neutral bundle. That phantom voltage you measured is just capacitive coupling from the live wire running next to it, not a real load. I've seen more than a few of those old boxes where someone mixed up the travelers or the common wire too. You probably already know this but your tick tracer can light up from that ghost voltage even when the circuit is dead, so a multimeter is the only way to be sure.

Bought a "universal" speedring for my buddy's softbox and it didn't fit his Godox mount either. Had to grind down the edges with a file just to get it to work. Such a pain.

6 months of frustration" - wait, you went half a year before realizing the monthly layout was dragging you down? That's wild, I would have snapped way sooner.

@umar59 must've had some truly awful small firm experiences to be this salty.