Prepaid Cell Phones
I have a cell phone that is prepaid. It seem like a good idea at the time. I really don’t need a phone that much and just wanted one for the car and emergency purposes. My nephews talked me into getting a prepaid cell phone. They told me it could just be a phone that I would get and only buy minutes as I needed them. That sounded perfect for me, because I didn’t really want to have another monthly payment. This way I could just use the phone as needed and only buy extra minutes when I ran out.
It’s actually not quite that perfect with a prepaid cell phone, but it’s close. I am not regretful of my purchase, but there was one detail that my nephews didn’t fill me in on. You still have to keep your service going with the cell phone company in order to keep your same cell number and not have to pay any extra fees to get service restored to it again. Now when you buy those cards for the prepaid minutes or order your minutes from online, you automatically are purchasing extra service time for your cell phone. I am not quite as active with my cell phone as I need to be, but I am very close. I currently have 22 minutes left on my prepaid phone and that would probably last me for a couple more weeks. However, my service runs out in 2 days and I will be forced to buy some extra minutes to keep my cell phone service going. I can purchase 60 minutes of phone time for $19.95 and that will get me 3 more months of phone service. So it’s not that bad and I could probably just pay 20 bucks every 3 months and I would have all the privelages of owning a cell phone. I can even save more money if I will buy my minutes in bulk or take advantage of the “lifetime double” offer that is available to me. If I buy the lifetime double card, I would get double minutes for the life of my phone at anytime I added extra minutes to it. So that 60 minutes I normally buy would be 120 minutes. So I could actually own a cell phone for less than 80 dollars a year and that averages out to about 5 or 6 dollars a month; if I were paying a monthly cell phone bill. Consider all the advantages of owning a cell phone and just how important they can become in an emergency situation, I think 6 bucks a month is well worth a prepaid cell phone. If you are one of the last people on the planet not to have a cell phone (like I was); look at the prepaid cell phones as an option to an affordable way to own a cell phone. You can find a cell phone for less than 20 dollars and this is a one time purchase and won’t involve any additional costs. Try to bite the bullet early sometime in your service plan and buy a big bulk of minutes or a lifetime double offer and you can enjoy having a cell phone too for a really cheap cost.
