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Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 08:14 PM
Well, that's it. I'm off the phone grid
 
No more phones for me, I took the plunge, pulled the trigger, made the leap.... whatever.

Picked up a $19 disposable celly off the grocery store rack, with a few preloaded minutes that should last me for emergency purposes probably for a few years. That takes care of my phone needs. Good luck with your iToys. AT&T loves their iMoney. :rasta

BigDeanEvans 08-09-2010 08:40 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403599)
No more phones for me, I took the plunge, pulled the trigger, made the leap.... whatever.

Picked up a $19 disposable celly off the grocery store rack, with a few preloaded minutes that should last me for emergency purposes probably for a few years. That takes care of my phone needs. Good luck with your iToys. AT&T loves their iMoney. :rasta
In a few years are we going to find you out in a farm with some militia with guns n shit?

Seems like you were all about money and whatnot before. Are you on some new meds or something? I kinda like the drunken fuel raging pill popping amp before. :)

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 09:48 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDeanEvans (Post 17403661)
In a few years are we going to find you out in a farm with some militia with guns n shit?

Seems like you were all about money and whatnot before. Are you on some new meds or something? I kinda like the drunken fuel raging pill popping amp before. :)
Not at all. Just the opposite.... I quit sniffing glue, pounding booze, trippin' balls, and hating life because I learned something. Money isn't the path to happiness.

But I'm also not a unabomber nutjob psycho shackin' up with a bunch of replica/knockoff weapons out in the forests of Montana. :winkwink:

Gerco 08-09-2010 09:57 PM
I hear you. I did the same, but I still have a magic jack and use skype. Who really needs anything else?

Vjo 08-09-2010 09:59 PM
That sounds like something I should do at least eventually.

I only use the cell for emergencies mostly which means I pay about $19.95 / 3 months to keep the service alive. I have plenty of mins built up.

How long do these disposable cell phones have before expiring? And how many mins did you get for $19.95?

Technology just keeps marching forward and generally making things cheaper which is good. :)

qwe 08-09-2010 10:02 PM
how your friends going contact you?(if you have any)

Agent 488 08-09-2010 10:04 PM
you still have a phone.

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:07 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 17403785)
That sounds like something I should do at least eventually.

I only use the cell for emergencies mostly which means I pay about $19.95 / 3 months to keep the service alive. I have plenty of mins built up.

How long do these disposable cell phones have before expiring? And how many mins did you get for $19.95?

Technology just keeps marching forward and generally making things cheaper which is good. :)
For $19.95 I got a Samsung T301G (TracFone) handset, 20 minutes preloaded, Double Minutes For Life, and 60 minutes airtime (doubled to 120 +the 20 from the phone) = 140 minutes and 4 months of airtime.

I can literally toss it in the trash when it runs out, and buy another $19 buck package. Far, far cheaper than AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, or any of those others' prepaid plans or regular plans. :2 cents:

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:07 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent 488 (Post 17403796)
you still have a phone.
A phone that's off grid. No one can trace this phone to me. It's registered to my dog. :)

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by qwe (Post 17403792)
how your friends going contact you?(if you have any)
Email or snail mail.

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:17 PM
Remember peoples, in this age of redefinition & flux during post Great Depression 2.0, frugal is the new black. And right now, I'm dressed to kill. :rasta

Vjo 08-09-2010 10:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403800)
For $19.95 I got a Samsung T301G (TracFone) handset, 20 minutes preloaded, Double Minutes For Life, and 60 minutes airtime (doubled to 120 +the 20 from the phone) = 140 minutes and 4 months of airtime.

I can literally toss it in the trash when it runs out, and buy another $19 buck package. Far, far cheaper than AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, or any of those others' prepaid plans or regular plans. :2 cents:
Thx. Wow Tracfone which is what I use. As I say I get 30* minutes and 3 months for $19.95. I got 1400 mins built up but I still need to give them $6.67 minimum a month. That is about Tracfone's cheapest deal online with a phone they gave me.

So yeah even cheaper off the store shelf. :thumbsup You're getting 1 month more and 140 mins. Which would be plenty for my use too.
Plus you get rid of the callin number which to me is good. I pretty much hate calls. lol I'm old school. :)

* Edit: I think they do give me like 30 mins as well at 19.95 / 3 months. Still if I didnt have the mins built up I would def go throw away. Better deal all in all.

qwe 08-09-2010 10:26 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403807)
Email or snail mail.
don't you think that's pretty retarded? who the hell is going to email you all the time, that's not normal

Sabby 08-09-2010 10:26 PM
If you need to announce this.. prolly nobody wanted to call you anyway...

But whatever... thanks for sharing...


Sabby:)

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:32 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by qwe (Post 17403831)
don't you think that's pretty retarded?
No, I don't.

Quote:
Originally Posted by qwe (Post 17403831)
who the hell is going to email you all the time,
People with computers that need to contact me.

Quote:
Originally Posted by qwe (Post 17403831)
that's not normal
According to what rule book?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabby (Post 17403833)
If you need to announce this.. prolly nobody wanted to call you anyway...

But whatever... thanks for sharing...


Sabby:)
I "announced" it because I had a previous thread about this last week that inspired me to do it. Trust me, it had nothing to do with trying to impress you. But whatever.... :)

Sabby 08-09-2010 10:34 PM
ok.. so whats your point... or do i need to tell you?



Sabby:)

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:34 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabby (Post 17403849)
ok.. so whats your point... or do i need to tell you?



Sabby:)
My point is, I just saved a bunch of money by switching off AT&T. :)

dyna mo 08-09-2010 10:37 PM
welcome to the club!

once peeps in your circle get trained, you/they won't miss a thing (except for the insane phone bill every month)

Sabby 08-09-2010 10:40 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403850)
My point is, I just saved a bunch of money by switching off AT&T. :)
Good for you!!!

AT&T kicks ass for my new best friend!!!!


Sabby:)

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:47 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 17403852)
welcome to the club!

once peeps in your circle get trained, you/they won't miss a thing (except for the insane phone bill every month)
I did give AT&T the opportunity to save a couple of accounts. We went into the store last week and asked them to consolidate accounts down to one shared plan and lower the bill. AT&T said "fuck you"..... so I said, "we're out of contract..... fuck you." :)

Sabby 08-09-2010 10:52 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403863)
I did give AT&T the opportunity to save a couple of accounts. We went into the store last week and asked them to consolidate accounts down to one shared plan and lower the bill. AT&T said "fuck you"..... so I said, "we're out of contract..... fuck you." :)
ok... Cell phone accounts can get bad... real bad... I keep my kids on pay as you go unlimiting texting plan (they know how to dial 911). We use virgin mobile.


Sabby:)

dyna mo 08-09-2010 10:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403863)
I did give AT&T the opportunity to save a couple of accounts. We went into the store last week and asked them to consolidate accounts down to one shared plan and lower the bill. AT&T said "fuck you"..... so I said, "we're out of contract..... fuck you." :)
good for you, we need more peeps to do shit like this.

i did get a magicjack though.

Vjo 08-09-2010 10:56 PM
lol I applaud you Amp. To young guys today that's like giving up your car. Noone can call you. :) Unless your at home, which is enough.

Serge Litehead 08-09-2010 10:59 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403802)
A phone that's off grid. No one can trace this phone to me. It's registered to my dog. :)
until you get rid of plastic you are in the grid

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 10:59 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by holograph (Post 17403878)
until you get rid of plastic you are in the grid
One thing at a time. No one goes 100% off grid overnight.

Vjo 08-09-2010 11:36 PM
All you need is an answering machine. Cell phones were orig for emergencies and that is where it should have ended.

Guys wandering around with headsets all day is a bit much but hey to each his own.

Answ machines are so nice. You call theirs. They call yours. You call theirs and you get together. Much more convenient.

Who wants to talk? Unless you are female. Females have always talked and it is just fine for them to talk all day. :) Or teen boys in first love. :) They can talk. The rest of us dont need to be talking all the time.

And I am sure anyone under 25-30 (my guess) will disagree. Which is cool. :)

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 11:39 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 17403918)
All you need is an answering machine. Cell phones were orig for emergencies and that is where it should have ended.

Guys wandering around with headsets all days is a bit much but hey to each his own.

Answ machines are so nice. You call theirs. They call yours. You call theirs and you get together. Much more convenient.

Who wants to talk? Unless you are female. Females have always talked and it is just fine for them to talk all day. :) Or teen boys in first love. :) They can talk. The rest of us dont need to be talking all the time.

And I am sure anyone under 25-30 (my guess) will disagree. Which is cool. :)
I'm not into yakking on the phone either. No answering machine, and I won't use voicemail or texting. The only phone calls I ever take part in are those that I must make to accomplish something..... like a vet appt, or a tow truck or whatever.... but never just to shoot the bull. People I know can send me email with their rambling thoughts, then I can decide if they're worth reading. :)

Sabby 08-09-2010 11:40 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 17403918)
All you need is an answering machine. Cell phones were orig for emergencies and that is where it should have ended.

Guys wandering around with headsets all day is a bit much but hey to each his own.

Answ machines are so nice. You call theirs. They call yours. You call theirs and you get together. Much more convenient.

Who wants to talk? Unless you are female. Females have always talked and it is just fine for them to talk all day. :) Or teen boys in first love. :) They can talk. The rest of us dont need to be talking all the time.

And I am sure anyone under 25-30 (my guess) will disagree. Which is cool. :)

its not a gender issue who talks most...

This goes to the air signs.. Aquarius... Gemini.. Libra....

Sabby:)

Vjo 08-09-2010 11:44 PM
The other night going through the frozen isle I see a nice grey "cell phone" prob a Blackberry or something. I pick it up.

I get up to checkout. I see an asian gentlemen prob about 22 and 2 white girls maybe together but about the same age.

I say, "anyone lose a cell phone? Zoom! they pulled out their cells faster than if I was Billy the Kid drawing on them in 1880. :)

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 11:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 17403930)
The other night going through the frozen isle I see a nice grey "cell phone" prob a Blackberry or something. I pick it up.

I get up to checkout. I see an asian gentlemen prob about 22 and 2 white girls maybe together but about the same age.

I say, "anyone lose a cell phone? Zoom! they pulled out their cells faster than if I was Billy the Kid drawing on them in 1880. :)
Cell phone panic. :1orglaugh

Sabby 08-09-2010 11:48 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabby (Post 17403927)
its not a gender issue who talks most...

This goes to the air signs.. Aquarius... Gemini.. Libra....

Sabby:)
weirdly... i happended to be blessed with all 3.... my kids are all air signs... Gemini, Aquarius, Libra..

Father Aries has sone definate issues... I am a pisces Mother ...


Sabby:)

Vjo 08-09-2010 11:48 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabby (Post 17403927)
its not a gender issue who talks most...

This goes to the air signs.. Aquarius... Gemini.. Libra....

Sabby:)
:) honestly when I "went their" Sabby you flashed through my mind. :) But it was just to make a point that talking all day is kind of.. you get the point. :)

It was stereotyping I admit. :)

Bird 08-09-2010 11:49 PM
fuck that generic ghetto phone, go AT&T prepaid with an unlocked google phone then use google voice and/or wifi to make calls.

Vjo 08-09-2010 11:51 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403931)
Cell phone panic. :1orglaugh
LOL

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

It was. They have their cell phones at "fast draw" at all times.

BTW I gave the "cell phone" to the checkout girl. :) Prob was a mini computer it was too big for just a cell. Was silver about 3"x5" and very slim.

I first held it and said "beam me up Scotty".

Amputate Your Head 08-09-2010 11:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bird (Post 17403936)
fuck that generic ghetto phone, go AT&T prepaid with an unlocked google phone then use google voice and/or wifi to make calls.
Why would I spend money on that to make approx. 7 minutes worth of calls per month? AT&T prepaid is a buck a day, before calls, isn't it? Then like, $.40 per minute or something? And a google phone = $$ too.

The idea was to secure a mobile phone source that is as cheap as possible (to facilitate the "disposable" part), without contract or a linking account (with private info in it). Mission has been accomplished. :)

PurrrsianPussyKat 08-09-2010 11:55 PM
We've used tracfone for years(at least 11-12 yrs).. I can't even imagine the amount of money we saved. Probably costs about $100 a year for the phone instead of every month. We have 2 of them now because we've been in situations where we are seperated and need 2 phones.. but I've loved my tracfone. I can text, take pics.. everything a "regular" phone does. Except I don't get a huge bill every month.

qwe 08-10-2010 12:09 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403850)
My point is, I just saved a bunch of money by switching off AT&T. :)
$30-40/month is a bunch of money? I think a bum on the street could afford it, you people are really crazy in here, seems like you all sit home with ak47's and stashed a bunch of canned tune, food supplies in your basement just in case aliens will come

Vjo 08-10-2010 12:20 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by qwe (Post 17403955)
$30-40/month is a bunch of money? I think a bum on the street could afford it, you people are really crazy in here, seems like you all sit home with ak47's and stashed a bunch of canned tune, food supplies in your basement just in case aliens will come
it's $500/year, $5000 in 10. All adds up. And yes I do keep a few rations around the bunker. :)

To me it's like this. If I'm home, I dont need one and if I'm out I dont want to drag my friends or the internet with me.

But thats just me. :) Fact is I hope and need mobile to go through the roof which I'm sure it will. I am way in the minority here I realize and that is good.

Amputate Your Head 08-10-2010 12:22 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by qwe (Post 17403955)
$30-40/month is a bunch of money? I think a bum on the street could afford it, you people are really crazy in here, seems like you all sit home with ak47's and stashed a bunch of canned tune, food supplies in your basement just in case aliens will come
$43 per month x 2
$67 per month iPhone Gen 1 account
$200+ per month x 2 iPhone 3Gs

yeah... any bum on the street can afford this shit. That's why all the bums have iPhones. :1orglaugh


When I began downsizing my shit... my electric bills were $1500 per month. I got those down to $132. The phone is just another item on the list I've been checking off for two years. Today, instead of needing to generate $20k per month just to cover daily expenses around here, I can live today for several months on literally zero money if I have to.

That's a fucking accomplishment in today's world of "must be connected to everything all the time and with the most expensive gear on the planet" mindset.

Amputate Your Head 08-10-2010 12:36 AM
"Adapt or die"..... is not just for breakfast anymore. :)

ottopottomouse 08-10-2010 04:02 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head (Post 17403802)
A phone that's off grid. No one can trace this phone to me. It's registered to my dog. :)
My dog gets pre-approved credit card applications and all sorts of other junk mail since I did the same thing about 8 years ago :1orglaugh

My phone is a throwaway prepaid one and has been for ages. The last three havn't been registered to anybody at all :thumbsup

v4 media 08-10-2010 05:29 AM
I've got a pay as you go but now in Europe they have to be registered to an actual person, you have to show id to get them.. They claim because of terrorism.

They cut off the old phones of people who didn't register.

TheDoc 08-10-2010 05:54 AM
Sweet, welcome to the club - kind of. You're still a cheater with the pre-pay, but that's allowed either way.

I've gone several years now of no cell/smart phone or pre-pay. My life was perfectly fine before them and honestly I like it much more without one.

Translation 08-10-2010 07:13 AM
Being broke must suck.

TheDoc 08-10-2010 07:23 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth (Post 17404339)
I hate phones too. I'd get rid of my landline at home if I didn't live in buttfuck nowhere. The only way I can get "respectable" high speed here is via DSL, so I need my landline. I use the term "respectable" loosely, since even the fastest high speed plan here is basically shite.

Only other alternative is those mobile usb sticks that run off the cell phone towers, but from what I have heard, their performance is abysmal, plus they charge you overages for using too much bandwidth. That's the only good thing about my current plan... I am grandfathered in from one of the old plans where they didn't care how much bandwidth you used. Sometimes I just sit and let torrents run all day just to spite them.
My Dad lives in a dead spot for Internet, no high speed through cable or dsl. He uses the aircard by Sprint I think it is, it works great for him.

pornguy 08-10-2010 07:31 AM
Only have a phone in this house because of the connection.

tranza 08-10-2010 08:00 AM
Congrats I guess...

Tom_PM 08-10-2010 08:09 AM
All I have is landline. Since I (almost)never leave the house, I (almost)always have my phone with me.

Rochard 08-10-2010 08:10 AM
I myself hate talking on the phone. No idea why.

With that said, we have a plan from Verizon - it's $120 a month for three phones and includes everything - unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and unlimited Internet. Can't really live without them. Use it to track where my kid is, handy in emergencies (twice in the past year or so when my wife was out on the road), and they act as a modem too. I have a new friend who has a farm thirty miles out of town in the middle of no place and I've driven out there and used my cell to hook up my laptop just so I can surf and relax.

NetHorse 08-10-2010 08:15 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Translation (Post 17404399)
Being broke must suck.
:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I could do without my home phone, but not on any prepaid cell phone that's limited. I use 500+ texts / 500+ minutes a month.

Perhaps it's because I'm young with a life....:1orglaugh


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