Working Poor

LiberalArkie

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24. I buy an iPhone every few versions and manage to trade in the old one. But I have found that

Mon Oct 12, 2015, 07:55 PM

Oct 2015

the AT&T go phone to be a heck of a package. I have them draft it from my bank account and they credit me $5 a month making it $55 a month. For that I get unlimited nationwide calls, unlimited nationwide messages and unlimited messaging to Mexico Canada and others. And 4 gb of data that rolls over to the next month. On my LTE service I get about 45mb data rate. And you can tether it to a PC.

No contract. Buy more as you need it. I stumbled into it when I was trying to save some money, still am being on Social Security.

I will save up to make a big purchase like the phone so that I don't have to worry about it going out.

I saved up a couple of years ago and bout a heat-pump water heater. Cost me $1200 but during the summer it puts out cool air and hot water and uses so little electricity that I cut my light bill in half the month after I installed it.

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This may sound weird [View all] w0nderer Oct 2015 OP

I found this to be true for me as well Melurkyoulongtime Oct 2015 #1

Cricket Half-Century Man Oct 2015 #2

5 meg or 5 gig? w0nderer Oct 2015 #9

:-)) so glad i'm not only one w0nderer Oct 2015 #3

It's a nice thought, but instead I'm thinking that PatrickforO Oct 2015 #4

Wish I could rec this post. malokvale77 Oct 2015 #8

i fully support 15/h and bernie and more i support working living wage (which is more than 15/h) w0nderer Oct 2015 #11

No, not working poor. Was, but not now, thankfully. PatrickforO Oct 2015 #14

Sorry w0nderer Oct 2015 #15

forgot to say w0nderer Oct 2015 #16

I'm currently working poor Melurkyoulongtime Oct 2015 #17

Yeah, I probably ought to say that in my post to which you replied PatrickforO Oct 2015 #18

No worries nt Melurkyoulongtime Oct 2015 #19

sad to see you with us w0nderer Oct 2015 #20

Yep! Melurkyoulongtime Oct 2015 #21

touching on a big thing there (transport) w0nderer Oct 2015 #23

Tracfone has a bunch of cheapies. MADem Oct 2015 #5

My grandson says that after having had a cell phone for a while, he realizes that all he really djean111 Oct 2015 #6

he might want to hit a used comp store for a cheap desktop/laptop w0nderer Oct 2015 #12

I still have a landline because my "retiree" bundle of internet, phone, and TV djean111 Oct 2015 #22

:-) w0nderer Oct 2015 #25

Look into refurbished phones NV Whino Oct 2015 #7

. astral Oct 2015 #10

:-) w0nderer Oct 2015 #13

I buy an iPhone every few versions and manage to trade in the old one. But I have found that LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #24

for older ipod touch (1 2 gen) ipad (1g 2g) and iphone 2g 3g w0nderer Oct 2015 #26