pictured: A soon to be excised relic from Mikey's house. Please note...I don't actually have that as the style of phone. I actually use pigeons. And smoke signals.Does anyone else still have a land mine..?(Sorry. Land LINE) I confess that I do. In fact, for the last 10 years or so I've been juggling my cell and home phone...I mean, that thing has lasted me 4 different residences at least. And I've loved it. It's nice to be able to fill out MORE spots on applications when it asks you the simple questions: Home phone? Cell phone? Why of COURSE I'll fill you in. Natch. I'm available alllll over.
Except I'm not very wealthy. And in going down the long list of s#it that I can probably live without? In terms of personal cost savings? I'm thinking the old cordless phone needs to go buh-bye. To be honest, the only reason I kept it for this long is laziness. Truth. (of COURSE) I disguise it as nostalgia/whimsy but let's be real...I'm never going to own a novelty Felix the Cat phone. And truth time- It's how the water company can "dial in" and get my monthly H2O readings and I don't have to risk getting grossed out by wading through the dust bunnies and cobwebs in my basement behind the dryer...just to do a meter-reading.
So now I'll have the one phone...my shellular. And even cutting that one cost will probably incur another (my phone is a hand-me-down as it is...and a flip phone...and, at the ripe age of 3 years old... considered pretty outdated- So if anyone has any cheap suggestions on something with texting/emailing capabilities, let me know. )
And if I'm filling out a survey/questionaire/audition form? I will NOT be writing anything in the space that says "Home Phone". Ha HA! (Sniffs sadly. Whatever. The battery kept cutting out on the cordless anyway)
Next up? Cutting the $10 that is my cable bill. Don't watch the telly. Only use the big screen for movies. And if there is a TV show I like? I'll Nutflix it.
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Where is your internet through? At he old condo, we had comcast, and kept the $8/mo cable so we could "bundle" it with our internet and save ten dollars. So, by adding cable we saved two dollars.
The service here is through a company that does multi-unit dwellings and we can only do their internet and Direct TV. So, instead we bundled our internet through our cell service to save dollars, and have an antenna for the telly. The antenna is a flat box that is nearly invisible...long way from rabbit ears.
That's my nickel.
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