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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 9:46 am
RN maybe your sister should pay the bill for the minutes you go over
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 9:49 am
RN: Oh she will. 77 minutes over!!!! GRRRRRR. Then she had the audacity to argue with me over it. I have the bill. I wish there was a way to read her texts, too. I would.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 9:52 am
RN, dare I ask why you are sharing minutes with your sister? To save money? If so, it sure doesn't sound like you are getting your money's worth.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 9:56 am
RN: Jimmer, it's my younger sister, she lives with us. We have physical custody while my dad has legal custody. We are going to be obtaining guardianship here soon.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 10:01 am
What about taking the phone away or giving her a prepaid with a set # of minutes?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 10:04 am
RN: Julie, then I have a cell phone I still have to pay for every month on top of a prepaid phone I'd need to buy with minutes. Which probably would cost just about the same as paying for these stupid overages.
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Alwayzmovin
Member
11-06-2003
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 11:16 am
RN: Too bad you don't have T-Mobile, they have it where you can go online and set it up where she can only use her phone...uhhhh like the hours of 4 and 4:15 p.m. LOL Actually you can set up whatever you want to do with it. It's called parental control or something like that. But I have AT&T so not an option with me either.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 11:17 am
RN: I have verizon.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 11:38 am
RN Escapee, both the kids have pre-paid. $10-20 per card for each of them once every three months. We had had a talk with Caleb about his when he got it, the occassional short call or text mail is fine, but phone is primarily for calling us when you are done with your four different activities at school. We have a house phone and email you can use. I kinda forgot that talk with Kota and she blew threw her minutes in no time flat with text messages. So, a talk with her was in order. New rule is if they go over again they lose the cell phones all together and will have to walk across campus to the student center and wait in line to use the phone there. No problems since. Caleb got his new phone for Christmas, he's used one minute and that was a phone call from me. Dakota hasn't had softball since Thanksgiving weekend so she's only been using hers once a week when drama club is over (except the last three weeks.) I had bought her the $20 card in Sept or Oct, with softball starting up shortly, I bought her a $10 card cuz I wasn't sure how many minutes she had left...glad I did cuz she had quite a few and they just roll over with the new card. I'd either get sis a pre-paid and put seriously limits on how often she can use it or tell her to get a job and cover her own portion of the cell phone each month.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 11:47 am
RN: I just set it up that if she goes over 225 minutes a month, her phone will no longer work for incoming our outgoing calls. I also just set controls that she' can't use her phone except to call certain numbers before 8PM....she's PISSED!!!! LOL I'm not!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 11:50 am
RN...good for you Escapee.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 11:58 am
RN she will get over it. tell her to get a job to help pay the bill if she wants to use the phone more Rn you are probably setting a good example for your 2 girls too by them seeing this they will know that you mean business
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 12:12 pm
RN: She also thinks I can read her texts online. Hee hee. I mean, I can't but she don't know that. I can track her as well.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 1:57 pm
lol!
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 6:30 pm
RN Escapee we had the same issue with our dds, at least double their minutes every month. We finally decided that it was actually cheaper to buy prepaid phones then continuing to pay the over charges. The first month my eldest' phone shut off by day 10, better believe she learned her lesson fast. LOL We pay what we think is reasonable and they are free to use their allowance to top it up if they wish. Good for you for getting tough, 225 minutes is more than enough!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 10:05 pm
RN with my first cell phone, I went over the minutes one month, by a lot. I'd had the phone for a year or two by then and never come anywhere close to the minute limit. And then step dad had his heart attack and was in the hospital for a week before he died. Me and sis took turns staying at the hospital with mom, I took the night shift and didn't sleep a whole lot. Between the regular calls back and forth to keep family updated (including his sister out of state) and phone calls to check in on the kids and Darren, I blew it big time, bill was somewhere around $300 that month (back then there were no roll over minutes on my plan) which was an absolutely nasty shock on top of me being off work a couple weeks and helping with the funeral arrangements. I paid off the bill, finished out my contract, cancelled it, and went pre-paid and haven't looked back since. See with pre-paid, I spend $20 on a card once every 2-3 months and my minutes roll over. With as little as I use the phone, I have tons of minutes usually, right now I have 188, but if I run out I can make the choice to go buy a new card or not. If there were another emergency like with my step dad, I'd go buy the cards but at least I'd know right then and there how much I was spending instead of waiting three weeks and getting that big ole nasty surprise in the mail.
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 12:38 pm
RN I'm a little freaked out NO A LOT FREAKED OUT I was cleaning some spider webs from the corners of the house when a spider fell from one of the webs and landed on my head and ran to my ear and tried to go in!!!!!!!!!! thank god it was to big I'm done with the webs THAT WAS JUST WRONG!!!!!!! (going back to freaking out more) p.s. spider is VERY dead
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 7:34 pm
RN ICK ICK ICK
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 10:41 pm
RN, Nightcrawler, I think you should check your ears again VERY carefully.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 11:27 pm
RN NC, I got the heebie jeebies reading that...and then I started to giggle. Once, Darren and I, and sis and bil, headed off to a nearby lake. That's not usually my type of thing but the guys wanted to take Caleb fishing (he was maybe 3 and a half at the time) and sis and I decided to take Kota and oldest niece (both of whom were young enough babies to be confined to a portable playpen) and have a picnic. Sis and I were sitting up with the babies and Darren and bil had taken Caleb out to the water. They'd rolled up his pants and taken off his shoes so he could stand in it, more than anything he was just splashing around and playing with his fishing pole (no hook on it) while the guys stood on either side of him. Darren and bil were chatting over Caleb's head and all of a sudden bil starts yelling, there's a spider crawling in Caleb's ear, there's a spider! Both him and Darren dropped there poles and started running at Caleb. That poor kid, lol! Bil hit him from one side and knocked him completely into the water, Darren landed on him from the other side and started batting at his head and there's poor Caleb laying in the water with his Uncle on top of him and dad hitting him. Probably didn't help that me and sis were yelling at them cuz they'd knocked him into the water! Caleb still won't go near water with either one of them without making them promise they won't try to drown him, lol
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 1:38 am
RN I wish I hadn't read all that! It's going to be hard to fall asleep! RN also, I wanted to say after all of these years of clicking on my tvch bookmark, I never looked at that main page. (I always just clicked on whatever show is first under featured topics even if I immed. go right to another topic.) How cool is that page!!! Very nice! Kudos to whoever did all that! being able to hover over something and have a picture appear is sooo cool! What is the pic that comes up for Animal Farm?
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, January 11, 2010 - 5:28 am
RN I think those are the five founders of the Animal Farm. Their pictures morph into each other. Rabbit started the whole thing. Goat man is still there. I don't know who the dogs and cougar are.
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Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 12:08 am
RN ~ I am glad I never signed up for MyFace or SpaceBook or whatever they're called, nor did I ever use a cellphone to suffer the texting craze sweeping the planet... I am who I am, just more of a hermit with each passing year. Ten years here and I no longer watch Reality TV, how lucky!!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 2:01 pm
RN I'm wondering if I should be totally offended! I know I got some grey hair, but damn. Because I'm a in home health care provider, the union sends me a bunch of info on seniors which is cool because some of it is interesting and useful (like their diabetes info.) I also get a bunch of junk mail for things like those scooters and walkers or cards to mail in to get catalogs on senior/home health care products. Most of that goes in the recycle bin. When AARP started sending me stuff, I ignored it. They send Darren stuff too, we're not sure why. But, today I get a thingie in the mail for senior burial insurance....for me! I'm freaking 36 years old! Do I look like I need senior burial insurance?????
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 2:06 pm
Rn no you do not need it yet.
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