There are a few things I have wanted to post about, and this topic is the best non-picture post I can think of.
Heather has my PC tied up re-doing our budgeting system, it looks like we are going to abandon Quicken in favor of a multi-page spread sheet. I was expecting Quicken to be less intimidating as a finance tracking tool than Excel, but it appears Heather has far more familiarity with spreadsheets than I do. In reality, Quicken wasn’t a great tool anyway, as it is built to track what has happened and we were trying to use it to manage a forward looking budget. I know I am wandering off topic, but I am kind of excited to have Heather working up this spread sheet. š
So, getting back to wireless calling plans….
Heather and I spend a lot of time in the car these days, and in the absence of much else to do, we make quite a few calls during this time. I had been trying to keep an eye on our minute usage, but our billing date is mid month somewhere and I clearly lapsed somewhere along the line. To make a long story short, we went over quite a bit. Like $120 over. More than a little disappointing considering I had realized this was a possibility, and then forgot to keep a close eye on remaining minutes as the billing month was coming to a close. what makes it even more frustrating is the fact that when IĀ changed our plan, the new service wasn’t that much more. The old plan was the most basic package, with a second line and unlimited texting thrown in. Upgrading to the next tier of plan meant we got the texting for free, doubled the minutes we could use, and added ten numbers we can call without using minutes (our choice as to what numbers for that). The new monthly bill hasn’t come in yet, but I think it will end up being about $10 more. That’s right, T – E – N as in 10… so the one month we went over will cost the same as upgrading our plan for an entire year. Makes me kind of annoyed at Verizon, but I doubt any of the other carriers are much better with this kind of thing.
-Jordan
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