Kill Your Cell Phone
For years I’ve been paying over $100 a month for cell phone service. For about the past year I was paying for 700 minutes a month for two phones and and using half that amount at best on average. The 700 minute plan was the cheapest I could get. And every time I changed calling plans the damn contract would extend another two years. So while I’d see other people paying less for the same amount of minutes with other carriers I kept thinking I had to stay with Verizon for the remainder and then I could leave. Then before that two years was up I’d get another phone and here we go again. It was like a funhouse mirror version of a revolving charge card. Meanwhile I have two friends at work who spend about $100 a year on prepaid phone service and talk to people on their landlines whether that’s through the phone company, the cable company’s Digital Phone service or Vonage. At first, when I was using the cell phone as my only number I was chasing the feeling of being “mobile” vs. being “wired to the ground with a land line.” I thought that was a more prestigious place to be in. I don’t know about that anymore. I do know it was a more expensive place to be in. Then when I got tied up in that property management mess I had so many people calling me and was having to talk to people I didn’t particularly care to even know at all and then having to jack my minutes up to 3000 at nearly $200 a month for the business, at some point I just wanted to kill my cell phone. I never imagined feeling like that. So after nearly 9 months of feeling disgusted and hating my life and linking that feeling to all the unwanted communication, once I got free of that I stopped using the phone except when I wanted to talk to someone, which wasn’t nearly as often. So now after spending $250 for new equipment and cell phone minutes my cost for phone service will be $24.95 a month and since I will be using the cell phone only for emergencies I’ll add minutes to it when I need to which will not be often.
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