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Realizing Our Budget

August 1, 2009

Last night Jason and I went over to the mall to pick up four new iPhones for our family (him, his mom, his sister, and I). We found that Sprint had horrible to no service at our new house and a quick call to Customer Service had us out of our contract. AT&T has great coverage at our house, Jason’s work, and all over the county. We were set on iPhones and had the funds to make it happen, so we went for it and fell in love with them as we played last night. Unfortunately, looking at our budget, it is very clear that we can no longer cover the cost of fancy cell phones. Our plan was difficult for me to swallow, but it’s necessary: we’re dumping cell phones altogether, lowering our cable service to the cheapest $30/month plan, and cutting out a bit more fat from the budget. I thought we had put together a really solid budget to account for moving here and relying on just Jason’s income. However, a few things didn’t go exactly as planned so we are now left in a lurch. We’re going to have a land line phone with unlimited...

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