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10-12-2009, 01:25 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by Bestwifeever
DH is getting an iPhone in the near future (which requires the $30/mo "data" plan in addition to the regular costs) because he wants needs has earned deserves it but I'm thinking of the pay to play service for myself. The end cost will be not much higher than the total $90 we pay now for the two-line plan.
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BWE, if your DH doesn't really need the data plan (ie, can use wifi most of the time or uses it just like an iTouch), then you might want to consider buying an iPhone used, like eBay or Craigslist. I bought my iPhone 2G for about $200. While the 2G/3G data is nice to have, I'm not prepared to pay $30/month for it.
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10-12-2009, 07:14 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Portland
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I think this article applies to insurance too. I have been with the same insurance company for years. I keep meaning to compare the rates with other companies but haven't got around to it yet.
I know my rates have gone up every year.
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10-13-2009, 09:51 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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While subscription is a nice analogy, I would suggest that inertia is a big factor for me.
When we both retired, we went to an empty slate and decided what we needed. One Visa and one MC both with two cards, for example. One landline and 2 paygo cell phones. No subscriptions. Each have a no-fee checking account. Own investment accounts. High speed internet.
Have not looked at all the new options that have developed in the last 7 years. Inertia! Plus I hate buying because most offerings are so opaque that it takes much digging to find out what is really being offered.
(The generation gap has developed with texting and twitter...)
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10-13-2009, 10:09 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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nowadays is $50 to $100 a month and that is "normal." Back in the "good ol" days paying $20 monthly to that monopoly AT&T seems like heaven now.
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I agree with you about just wanting basic stuff. To be fair, however, note that $20 in 1980 is equivalent to about $52 today, adjusted for inflation.
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10-14-2009, 03:47 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Bro was paying $21.71/mo for POTS. Even touchtone would have been extra!
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10-16-2009, 09:30 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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I SO wanted to ask... but didn't dare.
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10-16-2009, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by WanderALot
BWE, if your DH doesn't really need the data plan (ie, can use wifi most of the time or uses it just like an iTouch), then you might want to consider buying an iPhone used, like eBay or Craigslist. I bought my iPhone 2G for about $200. While the 2G/3G data is nice to have, I'm not prepared to pay $30/month for it.
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That is what stopped us from getting an Iphone. That 30 a month for the data plan. Pretty happy with our LG Incite. You can store contacts and has a schedule calender. Browse the internet pretty well. But it lacks any real useful apps.
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10-16-2009, 12:04 PM
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"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive". Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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10-17-2009, 05:49 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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I have seen the "doublethink" in friends who will shop extensively to save a few dollars. but they are paying sky high rates for insurance, phone service, car repairs and others. what they save on their new shopping items is tiny when compared to what is leaking out of their budgets every month.
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