Review your phone bill!
I looked hard at the services packaged into my local and long distance plan, and found that my lifestyle has changed enough to eliminate some features. Choices I made:
1. Ditch the voice mail. Most of the messages are to buy a vacation or satellite dish or upgrade my credit card, and our friends call us on our cell phones. Monthly savings: $7.95
2. Eliminate the fax and 2nd phone line bundle. Now that I have a "scan to email" option on my office copier, I no longer need this service. I can still fax out whenever I need to. Monthly savings: $8.95
3. Get feature blocking on my account. Four times this year I've been charged for services I didn't order, usually for an internet services. The last time I complained and got the services removed (that part usually isn't hard, just time consuming), I was told I can block 3rd party billing on my account. I expect that will save me about 2 hours time this year.
4. Change my long distance plan. I've found that we don't need unlimited long distance anymore, because 5 cents a minute is pretty cheap and we don't use it as much as we once did. Monthly savings estimate: $14.oo
They key is looking newly at your habits, patterns and routines, and then reviewing all the ways you use technology and communication. Then see if choices you made in the past still work for you.
Good luck!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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