How many cell phone minutes do you go through a month?

[Mutley]

In another thread a poster said they think that many people use their cell phones too much. So, I wonder how much the average DUer spends on the cell phone. I am 200-300 minutes a month.

[Mutley]

1. No love for mutley today?

:D

[progmom]

2. gosh - i should know this

but....i don't.

i think the answer is: a lot.

[Mutley]

3. It should be on your bill.

I only know because I pay for more minutes than I use. x( But I never get around to changing my plan.

[rexcat]

4. I used 950 minutes last month.

I am self-employed and I travel a lot!

[Mutley]

6. Wow!

But you have a good reason. I know people who use more than that just chatting it up with their friends.

[usedtobesick]

5. ~4,200 a month. I have a "phone office" and it's my work/home line

I travel a lot so a land line didn't helpand my customers live in all time zones I think.

[Mutley]

7. You, too, have a good reason.

But, wow! 4,200 minutes! My ear would kill me at the end of that month. :D

[usedtobesick]

8. my head set is starting to grow into the side off my head.

I feel like a borg and I look like a crazy person wondering around talking to myself. But I at least don't yell in public. I hate when you are forced to join in other phone conversations in public places.

[Mutley]

9. You have the little hands-free thingy?

That makes life much easier, especially while driving a manual transmission. :o

[usedtobesick]

10. haven't gone bluetooth yet but looking at it.

[Mutley]

12. Now that's that fancy wireless hands-free thingy.

New fangled city tech-nol-ogy. Don't mind me, I just had some coffee.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. I checked more than 800 minutes, but I have a family share plan

with my husband and two teens. The girl teen is responsible for chewing up most of the minutes.

[Mutley]

13. Of course. That's what girl-teens are good for.

I spent insane amounts of time on the phone when I was a girl teen. Good thing my parents didn't have a cell phone to share with me or I probably wouldn't be alive today.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. LOL. No kidding.

When I first went to this family share thing about 1 year ago, the bill was supposed to be about $100 per month. Imagine my surprise when I opened the bill and it was for $482????!!!! Well, turns out the princess was text messaging and getting text messages, not knowing that she only got 100 per month.

Solved the problem. Paid $5 per month for her to text message her little heart out. Better than getting a big cell phone bill.

I remember years ago when my husband's cell for work routinely topped $1000. It was awful. Bag in the days of bag phones. Then, he got a Star Tac, which was promptly stolen. Sigh.

[Mutley]

15. Ugh!

$1,000? I would die! My biggest bill was $300 once, but the SO was at a class for work for two weeks, so we talked for hours and hours. We thought using the cell would save money on long distance. :eyes: We weren't so smart about it. :D

[Midlodemocrat]

16. I know. It sucked eggs. The company routinely took 90 days to

reimburse him, and we were just married with a baby. Not a lot of disposable cash.

Now, I can't imagine a bill that high, not with the unlimited minutes, et al. Most of his charges at that time, 14 years ago, were from roaming. $3-5 bucks a pop.

[Mutley]

20. Oh yeah.

When cell phones first came out their billing practices were ridiculous. They finally figured out people weren't going for that.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. About 15.

I'm on a pay-as-you-go plan.

[Mutley]

21. I did that but I used too many minutes.

I was spending three times as much as when I was on a plan, so I just went back to the plan.

[gizmo1979]

18. 0 I'm the last

person in the U.S without a cellphone.

[Mutley]

22. According to the poll three other people don't have cell phones.

:D

I often wish I didn't have a cell phone, but then I think about driving around without one and I know it would be my luck that the day I got rid of my cell phone would be the day I break down on the side of the road somewhere. And people in Maryland aren't really the types to stop and help you out on the side of the road.

[gizmo1979]

38. My wife keeps threatening to

get me one,but it hasn't happened yet.

[Mutley]

41. You could always get a pre-paid one in case of emergency.

Just buy 10 minutes for it or something and keep it in your glovebox.

[gizmo1979]

48. Did I tell you

I'm very stubborn?

[Mutley]

49. So's my SO.

I'm used to stubborn men. :7

[gizmo1979]

54. We're not so bad

stubborn can be a goodthing sometimes.It does take a special kind of lady to live with us though.

[Mutley]

55. Sometimes.

It takes a patient lady, for sure.

[Initech]

19. I dont know. I never see my cell phone bill.

I get an account through work and it's taken out of my paycheck each week. I currently have no freaking clue how many minutes I go through!

[Mutley]

23. Most phones have a timer in it you can reset every month.

Then you can see how many minutes you use.

[Clintmax]

24. Around 400...

But I GET 900...I have Cingular, so I don't lose my unused minutes and right now...I have over 3900 rollover minutes! :woohoo: I'll NEVER pay overage charges again!

[Mutley]

26. LOL! That happened when I had Cingular.

I NEVER managed to use any of the rollover minutes and when I left them I think I had over 5000. :rofl: It would probably take me two years to use that many minutes.

[Clintmax]

29. Yes, they just keep piling on don't they!

I KNOW I need to go down a plan, but if I do, I'd lose the unlimited mobile to mobile and other things...so I guess I'll just keep what I have.

[Mutley]

31. You may as well.

Rollover minutes were the only good thing about Cingular, IMO.

[billyskank]

25. Around about none

Although I do have a cell phone. It just gets used for a few text messages to my brother.

[Mutley]

27. It's convenient to have around, though, eh?

[billyskank]

28. Yep. It's for emergencies

If I was stuck in traffic and going to be late for something important. That sort of thing.

By the way, :hi: mutley!

[Mutley]

32. Hi!

billyskank :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

30. I have unlimited service ...

my time on the cell phone is increasing greatly ...

I'll look at my next bill for the actual usage ...

[Mutley]

33. You like to talk on the phone, eh?

I've hated talking on the phone since I left my teenie bopper years behind.

[In_The_Wind]

34. Not really ...

but it's - talk on the phone, send emails, PMs & IMs or be totally cut off from my friends ...

I wear hearing-aids so talking on the phone is always challenging.

[Mutley]

36. Ah, that makes sense.

I'm pretty anti-social in real life, so thats why I hate talking on the phone.

[In_The_Wind]

35. darn ...

dupe ...

[Mutley]

37. I did this a couple weeks ago.

But there were four of them! :blush:

[WindRavenX]

39. 2K

Of those, nearly 1,900 minutes are when it's free night calls with my SO :P

[Mutley]

42. Talking to the SO will do it...

The only time I ever went over 500 minutes was when my SO was out of town for two weeks. :D

[bigwillq]

40. I used 769 last month

Average is about 800

[Mutley]

43. Thats a lot of talking.

:D

[bigwillq]

44. Not really.

Some people in this thread have used a lot more. My celly doesn't get good reception in my house so I rarely use it at home. I have free state to state long distance on my house phone so I just use that when I'm home.

Hey--are you trying to say I'm a blabber mouth?!?!?! :)

[Mutley]

45. I would never say such a thing about you!

Yes.

:7

[bigwillq]

46. Yes you would!

:)

[Mutley]

47. Are you calling me mean?

:spank:

edit: Look how much you're enjoying that spanking!

[bigwillq]

50. I do enjoy my spankings.

Do it again! :evilgrin:

[Mutley]

52. 'K!

:spank:

[LincolnMcGrath]

51. Usually less than one hundred minutes

[William Bloode]

53. 0, nadda, ziltch

I had a cell phone once for about 3-4 days. I chucked it into a barrel of glue at work after a few aggravating calls at work. Why the hell do i want to own an electronic leash?

[jmm]

56. Over 800 a month

but thanks to free weekends, free nights (I pay an extra $7 a month so they go from 7 pm to 7 am unlike the usually 9 pm to 6 am. That little bit of time makes a big difference for me.), and free cell phone to cell phone calling I only use about 100 peak minutes per month so I still get an insane amount of roll over minutes. I don't think I talk on the phone alot but there are a few people that I tend to get into long conversations with.