Cost of staying connected.......
We just returned from a trip around the country and up to Alaska....For too many of those days we were devoid of any contact with the digital world. While at home it cost around 300 bucks a month for...
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Will not get into a price comparison in all the categories because as someone else said everyone has different priorities and needs.
Here are places we save for our needs. We have Verizon Home Phone Connect at $25/month unlimited calls, we take it on the road with us and connect it at night to collect messages and make long calls when needed. We have two smart phones that we bought used off contract for a couple of hundred each. Mine is on an ATT reseller called H2O at $100/year, my wife's is on PagePlus a Verizon reseller at $80/year, both cost 5 cents/minute and 10 cents/MB (not cheap data but we use them mostly on WiFi and it works for us). Both of these have a cheaper mode if your cash reserve builds up to much, I currently am only paying $40/year and my wife could cut back to $30/year.
We also have an iPad with cell service and hot spot that we pay for with no contract for our primary internet when we don't have free internet, we pay $40 for 4GB and that has been plenty while we are on the road and we just turn it off when we are home and don't need it or drop back to the 1GB for $20 or 2GB for $30 if we are doing a few short trips.
Here are places we save for our needs. We have Verizon Home Phone Connect at $25/month unlimited calls, we take it on the road with us and connect it at night to collect messages and make long calls when needed. We have two smart phones that we bought used off contract for a couple of hundred each. Mine is on an ATT reseller called H2O at $100/year, my wife's is on PagePlus a Verizon reseller at $80/year, both cost 5 cents/minute and 10 cents/MB (not cheap data but we use them mostly on WiFi and it works for us). Both of these have a cheaper mode if your cash reserve builds up to much, I currently am only paying $40/year and my wife could cut back to $30/year.
We also have an iPad with cell service and hot spot that we pay for with no contract for our primary internet when we don't have free internet, we pay $40 for 4GB and that has been plenty while we are on the road and we just turn it off when we are home and don't need it or drop back to the 1GB for $20 or 2GB for $30 if we are doing a few short trips.
