I have verizon cell phones with 5 lines. Three of the lines are for me and the kids. My EXDH has the other two lines. This bill is roughly $300 per month for 2100 minutes. We generally go over 1400 but are way less that 2100. So I can't reduce the minutes to save money. However, XDH uses most of the minutes. He used 1052 of the 1488 minutes used. He was just paying what the charges were for his line, 9.99 per month for the line and the ringback tones. This month I asked him to pay $125 of the bill since most of the minutes used were his. He was fine with this. So from now on, I will be getting more money from him for the cell phone bill. That will really help me out and it is only fair I think. I can't reduce the amount of minutes due to his usage.
My budget is looking very good. So good in fact that I think I am going to get the air in my car fixed on Saturday, as long as it just needs to be charged. If it needs extensive work I can't get that done, but it will only be about $50 to get it charged and see if there are any other problems. It is just brutal sitting in a car with no air where the drivers side window won't go down and now the the controls on the driver side won't make the passenger window go down and I am too short to reach across the passenger seat and roll down the window. Even with the back windows open if feels like a sauna in there. Keep your fingers crossed that it just needs some freon.
Cell Phone Bill
August 10th, 2011 at 05:55 pm
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August 10th, 2011 at 07:38 pm 1313001484
Didn't re-read for comprehension!
August 10th, 2011 at 07:54 pm 1313002451
T-Mobile is an awesome deal, if you can pay $107 upfront you get 1000 minutes (can be used for texting too) and one year of service. I reload about twice a year.
Net10 is what NT uses and it's a pretty good deal too; $32 or so every 2 months for 300 minutes. You have to renew within the 2 month period to keep your phone active, but you can renew earlier if you run out of minutes.
We have two T-Mobile phone/plans and one Net10, and we've gotten our total average cost down to about $60 per month; hope to get it down to $50 average for the year eventually.
August 10th, 2011 at 08:08 pm 1313003301
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August 10th, 2011 at 08:37 pm 1313005068
Even if you don't change to pre paid, I would at least look into getting your plan down to just your 3 lines and dropping your minutes way down, while keeping unlimited texting. Although if you are with Verizon, I think that Verizon-to-Verizon texts might be free.
You really should look into making a change.
What are the odds that the exDH is actually going to pony up the $125 a month? Isn't it better to get a fixed bill lower than rely on him paying what he owes? No one can take that money away from you.
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