Originally Posted By: Lono


One question on your Tracfone minutes, your costs seem a little high to me - I buy my minutes once a year, and use the double minutes for life option that nets out to to $13/month, and I rolled over 500+ minutes last year. Are you buying minutes more frequently? They'll cost you more in the long-run.



Interesting that you mention that. Turns out that's for FOUR phones, not three. I totally forgot that we have been helping out my sister-in-law who can't afford phone minutes. So it's not too bad. My wife burns down the minutes coordinating things for three kids...still, at under $30 a month per phone, the Trafone totally blows away ANY postpaid plan I can find.

The 1 thing tracfone lacks is a "messaging" phone for the prepaid market. Verizon and Tmobile have them, just a slider handset to make it easier to do SMS.