Cell Phones

Big news! We have decided to join the 21st century and get a cell phone! For the record, we have each thought many times over the past few yeaers, "Oh, this would be a situation where it would be really nice to have a cell phone." So it's not like we're complete Luddites. We have held off for a few reasons though. One is that we know that as soon as we get one, we'll never go back to being without one, so we figure we'll just keep saving that money for as long as we can. I mean, it's only been within the last 2 years that we switched to unlimited internet access, and we still just have dial-up! And right now we still have satellite TV, but I don't think that is going to last much longer. I watch it for 40 minutes in the afternoon while I do the Gazelle. Sometimes Bob watches a game or something after the boys go down. I'm just not seeing that as $30 of TV viewing a month! I definitely an in favor of as few "every-month" charges as possible. A second reason we have dallied so long is that the plans and options are just so confusing and overwhelming, so we'd rather just ignore them. That is where you come in. Please give us feedback and things we should be thinking about and looking for in a plan. We already know there are only a very few providers who have service at our house, which is sort of in a little valley, right next to a town that doesn't allow cell phone towers. I think one that works here is Nex-Tel. At least that cuts down on some options! We travel quite a bit, so we would have to have a plan that allows roaming without it being totally expensive. We're not sure if we should just get one phone or go with 2. With Bob's new realtor enterprise starting up, he'll definitely need one. He isn't allowed to have one inside his building, however, so he couldn't use it during the day anyhow, but I think it would be better to have a dedicated number for that. I guess I'm leaning towards 2, but the cheap person in me screams "NO!" Decisions, decisions . . . You all had better keep checking on us too, or otherwise we may lose momentum again and put this off one more time!