Ohhh Man!

Yesterday my husband and I took the plunge: we bought cell phones!

He had never had a cell phone before, and I had one once that was part of my mom's cell phone plan. It's use was pretty limited and I never ended up using it for anything but a clock. So, we're pretty new to this whole cellular technology thing. Since this was such an epic event in our lives, we decided to go all out and get a really good couple of phones and the best plan we could reasonably afford.

We bought two HTC Legend Smartphones powered by Android. $250 each. Lucky for us, Virgin mobile has a "supertabs" option whereby we only pay 10% of the cost of the phone ($2.50) each month and when we decide we want to cancel our plan, the only cost is the remaining price of the phone. Sure, we won't get the phone for free nor will we get a free PS4, but we also can walk away from this deal whenever we want and only owe them the remaining cost of the phones, which is way better than the typical cancellation fee especially when you consider that we will have been paying down the phones in easy payments with no accumulating interest.

We get unlimited texting, unlimited evenings and weekend calling, no activation fee, no anything fee really and we got some free cases thrown in. We even get "My 10" as opposed to the typical "My 5"...which pretty much takes care of all the people we call on a regular basis anyway.

What will happen to us? Will we suddenly become chained to our technology like the rest of the world? Will we lose whatever social skills we had in place of texting skills? Who knows...only time will tell.

Ok...now I really need to land a job.