I got the new cell phone bill today. I about choked on my dr pepper. $780. Yep you read that right. I was expecting a bill around $450 because I bought my daughter her christmas present and had it billed to me. But I wasn't ready for a bill that large. Turns out that one of the phones my ex has has been getting on the internet and it has no(zero, zilch) data plan. So it charged $1.99 for each megabyte. total charges = $290. I know exactly what happened. His mother has the phone and his brother got ahold of it and started using it to probably look up porn on the internet. I called the ex and he will get to the bottom of it. I know that he will pay me for it, just have to make payments because he just started working in New York. I also blocked the internet on that phone and blocked the subscription text messages from all phones. No more surprises.
I got on the Sallie Mae website to see about my payment that automatically comes out. I was debating cancelling it because I didn't have enough money to cover it. It was too late to cancel it(although I did attempt to cancel automatic debit will have to go back and redo that). But I found out that the payment is $471 this month. They added all the late fees to the $269 payment. Good thing I looked. That is a significant difference that could have gotten me in a lot of trouble.
I am running short on money so I took out a loan from my employer for $1400. I will pay it back $100 per paycheck. I hated to ask him but with the renters not giving me anything I was desperate. Now I can make all my bills and hopefully I will get somebody in there pretty quickly. I am going to drive by there tonight and see if they have left yet.
Plan to have a quite night at home. Trick or treating is a little different where I live. Since the homes are mainly rural everyone goes downtown where the merchants hand out candy. Since my kids are older now, I don't have to go downtown. They go to hang out, not to get candy, and their mom hanging out with them would just be lame(according to them). So I get to relax in the warmth of my home.
My sister is bringing me a wood burning stove this weekend to put into our fireplace. It should help with our heating bills this winter. I just hope that I keep up with it and it works like I hope it does. There is only a narrow opening that heat can get through to get to the main part of the house so I am hoping that it travels well.
Well that about updates all that is going on in my life. Hope everyone has a safe and fun halloween!
Cell Phone; Sallie Mae & other general musings
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I guess I'd go to great lengths to get out from under such a heavy load, especially when you are depending on $$ from someone who doesn't live in the same state and apparently doesn't respect your responsibility for the payment enough that he can't keep people from looking at porn on his phone.
But if it doesn't bother you, then it doesn't bother you. When your contract is up you aren't going to renew with him, are you? You are a lot more trusting that I would be...
I don't mean to be harsh, but I read your blog with great interest and I hate it when you get taken for a ride. And between this and your stupid renters, I'm angry FOR you!!! :-)
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