While I do have one now, it's a "pay as you go" plan - bought the phone at Target for $60, activated a $100, 1,000 minutes, 1 year of service card. It's perfect for me. I only use it if I need a ride/will be late/need to change plans.
The reason I did without a cell for many years before my first, and for several years before this second one, were both lack of interest and money. The long term investment, plus all the overages, taxes, added fees that the companies screw you with... who can afford that!? Pay late and get penalties or get it shut off.
I also didn't really have much that was VITALLY IMPORTANT to say to anyone at any given time - it could always wait. Nothing irritated me more then (and NOW) than seeing so many people on cell phones, all the time. Really, is what you're saying that important or are you just bored and want someone to entertain you?
The TV may be the babysitter at home, but the cell phone is the babysitter on the go.
I have two phones. One of them was supposed to be for work related phone calls, because I was trying to break into real estate and that's a very phone intensive industry. The other was supposed to be for private purposes and to give our 12 year old daughter a cell phone that she could carry with her to various events. Since real estate is a total racket where you work for a company for free under the auspices of being an "independent contractor" they didn't pay for my cell phone. Or anything else for that matter. But I'm not bitter. As our daughter is getting older and more indipendent, we want her to have a cell phone too. We've found that most of the kids her age have cell phones..so we're not going to deactivate that phone. Now if realtors would just quit calling me, I could actually start using my own cell phone again.
I have two phones, one for work and one for personal use. To be quite honest, the work phone sees very little use. Work pays for the work phone. Thank God.
Yeah, I am with you on the bees. Big concern for me. I'm going to try to meet with Dr. Berenbaum about that issue soon and see what I can do to work towards bee-friendly cell phones, if that is indeed what is causing this problem.
I have two phones - one is my work phone, and my job pays for it but I'm also self-employed so it's not exactly a great savings until tax season comes around. The other is, uh, currently nonfunctional, waiting for me to re-enable it and give it away, since I have this lovely work phone that WAS for work only until I started working for myself.
As for living without one, why would I need one? I'm never more than a block from a phone should I need to make a call, and I prefer to take incoming communication via email.
Of course, Lovely Work Phone reads my email, which is great.
Nope. Nokia 6275i - meaning it doesn't have the more complete email features of the crackberry, but it does accept incoming email as text messages. That, combined with some filtering on my mailbox, means that I get alerted to anything critical because my it gets sent to my phone directly.
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The reason I did without a cell for many years before my first, and for several years before this second one, were both lack of interest and money. The long term investment, plus all the overages, taxes, added fees that the companies screw you with... who can afford that!? Pay late and get penalties or get it shut off.
I also didn't really have much that was VITALLY IMPORTANT to say to anyone at any given time - it could always wait. Nothing irritated me more then (and NOW) than seeing so many people on cell phones, all the time. Really, is what you're saying that important or are you just bored and want someone to entertain you?
The TV may be the babysitter at home, but the cell phone is the babysitter on the go.
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As our daughter is getting older and more indipendent, we want her to have a cell phone too. We've found that most of the kids her age have cell phones..so we're not going to deactivate that phone. Now if realtors would just quit calling me, I could actually start using my own cell phone again.
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As for living without one, why would I need one? I'm never more than a block from a phone should I need to make a call, and I prefer to take incoming communication via email.
Of course, Lovely Work Phone reads my email, which is great.
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