The Weight of Money

I’ve finally done it: picked a family cell phone plan. It’s been about a year since I started talking about this and today I finally just made a choice and gave up on thinking I’d ever be really happy with my choice.

We now have one cell phone bill for about $70 instead of the two cell phone bills for $115 a month. We also picked up two new phones as well.

AT&T is the lucky winner, not so much because we liked them better, but because compared to Sprint they did have some options we wanted and my cell phone reception is much better than the partner’s at the new house. Most the local also suggest AT&T/Cingular for better reception as well, so the partner can look forward to acceptable coverage which is much more than he has now.

Now I wait for our new phones to arrive and the inevitable problems that seem to always occur when I’m turning on new service of any type.

Monthly Savings: $45 Annual Savings: $540

(Had I done this last year in October when I started thinking about it, we would have saved about $450 already)

just as things get geared back up at home, we lose our internet connection again. Sigh. At this rate, comcast owes us a credit of $2.63 for 4 days (and counting) of no internet.