I updated to a moto G5 plus, unlocked. Only 32GB mem
Not the OP, but I'm similar. I sometimes go months w/o making a call/text on my cell.
When we are home, it's the VOIP phone. When I'm out, I'm out, I rarely need to talk to anyone. If I need to call home about some shopping item or something, I do. I don't avoid using the cell phone, I just don't have any need to use it much at all.
For years I had the T-Mobile Gold plan, once you put the initial $100 on it, you only had to add $10 a year (yea, a year - like 8.3 cents/month). The minutes roll over, and I still have hundreds of minutes on it. For $10 a year, I'm keeping it active, just in case, but use a smart phone now. I occasionally do need data now (Uber mostly), so went with a cheap data plan (Ting, sharing minutes/data with DW - runs ~ $28/month for the two of us).
Obviously, this won't work for some people, but if you have a VOIP phone at home, some of us just don't need/want to gab while we are busy doing other things.
-ERD50
My DW and I share a TING plan too. $6 each phone, $3 100minutes, $3 100 messages, $3 100Mb of data (about $23 total after taxes for both phones). Between the two of us, we probably only use about half of those allowances per month.
Minutes 4 minutes used $3.00
Messages 58 messages used $3.00
Megabytes 40 megabytes used $3.00
Devices 2 $12.00
Taxes and regulatory fees
Federal, state and local taxes and regulatory fees we are required to collect. $5.25
Communications Service Tax $2.47
Fed USF Cellular $0.97
Telecom Relay Surcharge (Wireless) $0.04
E911 (Wireless) $1.74
FCC Regulatory Fee (Wireless) $0.03
Mobile service $21.00
Taxes and regulatory fees $5.25
Total $26.25
It seems most of these supper frugal plans are in roughly the same ballpark. The tracfone plan I use is $99 for 1,200 minutes talk + 1200 messages + 1,200 mb data (and 1 year of service). Additional if needed texts are $5 for 1,000 and $10 for 1,000 mb data which can be bought separately. I find that most of the time I'm able to use wi-fi for calling or texting or data so my actual plan usage is limited. I bought this plan at the beginning of the year and find I've used so far 222 minutes of talk,81 texts and 110 mb of data. It looks like I better get on the phoneMy DW and I share a TING plan too. $6 each phone, $3 100minutes, $3 100 messages, $3 100Mb of data (about $23 total after taxes for both phones). Between the two of us, we probably only use about half of those allowances per month.