Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Cell phone nightmare!!!
More Thorns, More thorns, OUCH!! I just looked at our cell phone bill that came in the mail today and My better half just about had to give me CPR and pick me up off of the floor! I have heard about parents getting scary cell phone bills but it had never happened to me until today. If you remember I just had called my cell provider and had our plan reviewed and made changes and saved almost 65.00 a month, well that savings is gone...... Our bill was 3.5 times the normal this month!! No flowers here for sure!!!! For the last 8 months we hadn't even been using 25% of the minutes on the plan we had, so our account rep, during the account review, suggested we drop to a smaller plan and save ourselves some money, sounded good at the time but now its not looking so good. Even if we had been in the original plan we still would have been over in minutes but not by as much, but the bill still would have been alot higher either way. We have free nights and weekends and free long distance and free mobile to mobile with our carrier and free unlimited texting so how on earth could the bill be over??? A teenager who got overly chatty last month, thats how. And all of her calls were before 9pm , when the free nights kick in and alot of her friends are not with our carrier so the free mobile to mobile was useless. So we were charged for every minute over our plan minutes at .40 cents a minute! So after a very long talk with her and and a call to the cell phone company we are at least sitting up and breathing more easily. They are going to put us on a payment plan and break all of the extra charges up over a 2-3 billing period time frame. Needless to say my daughters cell phone usage will be heavily monitored for awhile and she is going to help pay for the extra charges.
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We recently reduced ours as well, but we have decided we are turning off our cell phones next month when our contract is up. We lived without them for YEARS before they were widely available and we did just fine. That said, we have a $14.00 TracFone with 60 prepaid minutes to carry for emergency use. My son uses a prepaid phone as well. Won't work for everybody, but it's a thought.
oh man ouch!
We're always the last to get any new inventions lol. I know I know the cell phone isn't new. We're on a plan with our son and daughter so I pay him $20/month for my share. I drive less that a quarter mile to work so I really don't need a phone. We now work it as whoever needs it takes it. Personally I don't want to be reached every minute of every day. And we really don't need to worry about car trouble anyway because other drivers can't wait to call 911 for you lol. Can't even imagine sharing with a teenager - glad my days of that are over.
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