Cell Phone

[MaieJaie]

I will not succumb to a way of life that requires me to be instantaneously available to anyone other than my immediate family, but I love my t-mobile plan ... pay as you go. For $100 you get 1000 minutes and are a "gold member" meaning your unused minutes roll over each year if you just add even $10 before your anniversary date. Since I use it just so my kids can reach me or to phone Dominos on the way home from a long day, I've put $100 plus $10 plus $10 into it for three years of phone service and still have more minutes than I will ever use this year.

A very cheap way to go but still have the convenience if needed.

I also use prepaid service. I'm not one of those people who uses their phone all the time; I pretty much just have it for emergencies. I've got AT&T's pay as you go, which works pretty similarly to T-Mobile's. I chose to have automatic payments setup that charge $25 every three months. My unused balance rolls over. I get a bonus added on after every hundred dollars' worth of payments. I have the security of having a cell phone when I actually need it, but for $25 payments every few months I barely even notice that I'm paying for it.