Prepaid: A plan for those not obsessed with cell phones
Posted
Mar 13 2008, 01:44 PM
by
Karen Datko
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We are among the four or five people in the country over the age of 12 who don't have a cell phone. Do we really want to be in touch with everyone all of the time? Why do we need to have a conversation about what the cat threw up, or what Oprah said, when we're driving, boarding airplanes or browsing in supermarket aisles?
Admittedly, a cell phone would come in handy once in a while: When you break leg on a mountain, your car dies in the middle of nowhere, or you really need to make a call and there's no pay phone in sight.
"Paidtwice" at I've Paid For This Twice Already says a prepaid cell phone plan is the way to go for the occasional cell phone user.
Paidtwice used to think that prepaid plans were for people with bad credit, until she realized how much money she could save. She used to pay $60 a month for a family plan. Now she pays about $14 a month total for two prepaid phones, and even got two free phones through company promotions.
"Once I let go of the 'cost-per-minute' factor and started focusing on the 'cost per month,' I realized that I was throwing tons of money away on minutes I wasn't using," she writes.
