Throw away your Iphone

This is the first post of my blog. This blog is going to be about different ways to save money.

With this first post, we will start out with saving money of your phone bill each month.

Go ahead and think about how much money you pay for your cell phone. A friend of mine said he paid about $100 a month for unlimited data, and 450 minutes. I guess this is typical for most people that own a smartphone.

A couple months back, I saw some plan advertised for unlimited talk and text for $50 a month. That's very cheap compared to my friend's plan but that still comes out to be $600 a year.

To me, cell phone plans always seemed overpriced. Eighty dollars of that contract is probably dedicated to playing angry birds or candy crush.

Contracts suck.

Before you get a new phone, decided what you really need or want. If you strip away the heavy features like internet and apps, its possible to get phone service for $10 to $20 a month.

I know, this may be difficult for most people to do, but there is a lot of money that can be saved here.

Switch over to prepaid phones.

I've used TracFone for the last three years and I've spent no more than $160 per year for phone service.

http://www.tracfone.com/?lang=en

If you decide to make the switch, make sure to buy one of the phones that offers the triple minutes for life card. You get the most bang for your dollar that way.

These phones are also very easy to find. You can get them online, walmart, walgreens, and other places.

Eighty dollars will get you 400 minutes without any multipliers. However. If you have the triple minutes feature added, you get 1200 minutes.

One hundred dollars will get you 400 minutes and one year or service. So with the triple minutes, you get 1200 minutes and one year of service. You could get through one whole year just paying a phone bill once, well depending on how much you call people. You get 100 minutes a month.


I'm pretty sure that not everyone can deal with stripping out advanced features, but if you can, you can save a good amount of money each month.