December 27th, 2010: My husband got angry. Angry at our money situation and angry at the insane amount of bills we have. He called Verizon and canceled his cell phone plan in the morning. We were paying $188/month for unlimited text, data and 700 any time minutes.
I thought... he is going crazy! Meanwhile, I hid in my room reading, knowing that I can't avoid the inevitable. Then it happened... "In order for us to be serious about this we need to BOTH get rid of our cell phone." Here we go, eye roll. Long story short at 30 years old I had to call and ask my parents to take over "financial responsibility" of my phone. Which means I didn't have to pay a cancelation fee on my phone and the bill is only $9.99/month... or would be if he hadn't gotten us Droid phones. So now we have to pay an extra $15/month for a data plan that isn't supported by Droid.
We also had to get a house phone. Vonage for $15/month (including taxes) so we could communicate with other people. See I can only use my verizon cell phone if I am calling verizon to verizon so I don't use any minutes.
Original Bill: $188
New Bill Cell: $27 ($10 + $15 data +$2 taxes)
Land Line: $15
New Total: $42
Total Savings: $146 a month
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