I don't spend much time on the phone and I recently dropped my own landline to save a few bucks. I bought a Tracfone last Christmas. After some discount I had, it was about $145 for 14 months prepaid -- including phone, minutes, and double minutes for life. As long as I don't go over about an hour of calls a month (and so far I'm doing even less than that), it will work out to just over $10/mo for the first 14 months. My landline was around $50/mo. I kept the landline as long as I did in part for a reason I don't seem to see mentioned here: If there is a natural disaster and power is out and you need to call emergency services, you can pick up your landline and it will work. Of course, this assumes you have an old fashioned phone hooked up to your landline and not one of those newfangled wireless phones. Those require electricity to work.
The next time I buy minutes for my Tracfone, I plan to get another $100 card good for another year. So next year, my "monthly" (average) phone bill will be even less than it is now, assuming of course I continue to use the phone very sparingly.
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I don't spend much time on the phone and I recently dropped my own landline to save a few bucks. I bought a Tracfone last Christmas. After some discount I had, it was about $145 for 14 months prepaid -- including phone, minutes, and double minutes for life. As long as I don't go over about an hour of calls a month (and so far I'm doing even less than that), it will work out to just over $10/mo for the first 14 months. My landline was around $50/mo. I kept the landline as long as I did in part for a reason I don't seem to see mentioned here: If there is a natural disaster and power is out and you need to call emergency services, you can pick up your landline and it will work. Of course, this assumes you have an old fashioned phone hooked up to your landline and not one of those newfangled wireless phones. Those require electricity to work.
The next time I buy minutes for my Tracfone, I plan to get another $100 card good for another year. So next year, my "monthly" (average) phone bill will be even less than it is now, assuming of course I continue to use the phone very sparingly.