Why do I have a Tracfone? Simply put...it's cheap. But that is not the only reason. A Tracfone if you don't know what that is, is a phone you buy (my current one is an LG and cost me a whopping $30 and looks like a slimmer Blackberry, sort of) and than you add minutes on to your phone in varying amounts and need to do so every 90 days to keep your phone active. So my $30 phone also doubles every minute I buy and I mostly get away with buying just 60 minutes every 3 months for $20 which than gives me 120 minutes and you can always find promo codes online for an extra 30 minutes. That amounts than to 150 minutes every 3 months. I no longer have to apply minutes every 3 months because I have so many service day accumulated. This phone is saving me at minimum $400 a year over my contract phone I used to have (which was $45 a month for just 500 minutes, nothing unlimited, and which I used about 5-10 min a month) . How can this be? Because I do not need the internet. I use my cell phone as, yes, a phone. I do text on my phone as well. I have the option of going online, but I don't. You can not do on a Tracfone what you can do on say an Iphone. I'm okay with that, and here's why.
I see no need to carry a computer in your pocket. Just a few years ago this wasn't even an issue, now everywhere you go you see people with their head bent over their phone in the palm of their hand. Is it really that important to text that friend, that family member, or to send that picture, or look up that song while you are out either at the store, or hanging out with your girlfriends? Can those things not wait? Not so long ago you did have to wait and nobody cared. Now people get together to go out to eat, grab some drinks, or whatever and they spend more time on their phones than the do with the live person in front of them. I've seen this even with families and their kids paying no attention at all to their parents. Call me old-fashioned but I do not like this new smartphone technology. I can honestly say that I have never ever wished that I could look up something while I was out, or that I could send that picture instantly as soon as the event happened. I might be about 1 in 100 that feel that way, but I just think if you are going to be out with people, your friends, your family, whatever, that you should BE OUT with those people and not staring at your phone all night. NOTHING is that important. If something IS that important than you shouldn't be out in the first place. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
This it one consumer who has no plans in the near future to sign up for a contract phone, pay ridiculous prices for phones, be trapped in 2 year agreements, and pay large monthly bills just for the sake of being able to do on your phone that which you can do at home on your laptop or PC. A phone is a phone. Texting is okay, I do that because so many times I can't get people to actually pick up the phone but they will respond to a text instantly. However, you do not need to be insessently doing so to someone who's not sitting there with you while you are spending time with someone else. That I do not do. Texting on my tracfone I get 3 texts per minutes. Tracfone is a great pay as you go option because you buy the minutes you use, not like other pay as you go options. If I talk for 3 minutes, 3 minutes come off my prepaid account and the phone shows you right on the screen how many minutes you have and how many service days until you need to apply more minutes. There are even phones you can buy with TRIPLE minutes which like the double minute phones automatically triples every minute that you buy. You can forgo the monthly purchase thing and the 90 day service terms if you buy a yearly card and you will still save plenty of money off a contract phone. But Tracfone isn't for those who play games, use apps, search the internet, email, or that sort of thing because you will eat up your minutes rapidly and not all phones are compatible with those things. Tracfone has advanced in the years I've had one, having now even touch screen phones.
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This just was some mindless drivel from me to you on this Memorial Day weekend. Let's not forget what this weekend is for, to honor those service men and women who served their country, risked their lives, lost their lives, for the saftey of the rest of us, and to defend our nation.
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