Debt Free Wannabe Rant

Eliza252

aaaahhh! I just got a mobile phone bill for £120!
I hate Vodafone!! - I am waiting to switch to O2 pay as you go and am still waiting for a port code from Vodafone so I dont have to switch my phone number. In the meantime i am stuck with the most awful tariff and now its midnight and their customer services are closed :mad: :mad:

Am really annoyed with myself for running up such a huge bill now i will have to work all next weekend - again!!! and my feet hurt because i have just worked a twelve hour waitressing shift - and my friend is dragging me out to a posh bar tommorow and i dont want to go...I am so sick of being in debt :mad:

Sigh... just having a little debt free wannabe rant

Anyone want to join me?

lets all winge together - its good for the soul

Stonk

My sympathies ... partially ;o)

Only "partially", because I think you are well aware of what the problem is, and you want to do something about it, but won't! One doesn't ring up a £120 phone bill by accident. And you know it's gonna hurt to go out to the posh bar, but you are virtually saying you will go anyway like you have no choice, no control, no will of your own.

TAKE CONTROL. Make changes. Live for the long term. It feels good.

Eliza252

hey, am going to do everything i can to get out of the posh bar thing - in fact am going over to friends house to meet and greet first and then will probably slip away when no one is looking before they go out to the bar - i would just like to have a few friends left by the time i finish paying everything off!!

Also - the mobile phone bill, goddam vodafone i can just see the smug grin on their face now as they take three weeks to put the code in the envelope. Basically i managed to get away with having a tariff with no line rental for nine months - (a one off deal when they bought up my mobile phone provider singlepoint) - then i got smacked over the head with a bill in the tenth month cus i didnt realised the the credit they had given me to cover the free line rental had expired - then in the 11th and 12th month i was moving house - cue no landline and biiiiig stress with moving - didnt keep an eye on the calls so got hit again. Now i am desperately trying to move network and tariff and its just taking a stupid amount of time.... happens to the best of us... better polish up my waitressing shoes and book up that extra work... :wall:

johannamse

Please dont take offence...

When I was in debt (still am, deeply) I used to always BLAME the company. Becoming debt free is a change of attitude, and taking responsibility for your own debts. Vodafone do not have a personal vendetta against you, they are not delaying to annoy you, there is absolutely no point ringing them and shouting at them, it is not their fault, it is yours and you will just !!!!!! the person on the other end of the phone.

Very often you see people posting on here, that there debts are the fault of the company. They are normally at the beginning of the process of becoming debt free, and over time they change. You will not become debt free whilst you still blame them, as every step you take waitressing you will be seething and angry at Vodafone, blaming them.

Once you realize this, you will become clamer, and will no longer shout at people on phones (I used to do this ALL the rime). It is a better way to live.

I hope I have not been patronising and have given some food for thought. Good Luck.

Eliza252

Thanks, I never phone up and shout at people in call in centres - its a very ineffective way of getting anything done and I have been on the recieving end before believe me - the reason im annoyed with them is because its still taken them three weeks to sort out this port code for me and they promised that they would get it to me in five working days - and this is the second time I've phoned them about it. Basically I cant stop my network connection with them (which currently is expensive - £11 for a 20 min mobile phone call) until i have recieved the code. It is very frustrating!

johannamse

You know what I do, which is really a silly idea, but makes me feel better...I have a list of blacklisted companies that I swear I will NEVER use again, and where possible I encourage others not to use them...Companies on my list...

Alliance and Leicester
Orange
Madhouse
HSBC
First Direct
others...can't remember anymore, I must have forgiven them!

mrbadexample

Eliza252 wrote:

Thanks, I never phone up and shout at people in call in centres - its a very ineffective way of getting anything done and I have been on the recieving end before believe me - the reason im annoyed with them is because its still taken them three weeks to sort out this port code for me and they promised that they would get it to me in five working days - and this is the second time I've phoned them about it. Basically I cant stop my network connection with them (which currently is expensive - £11 for a 20 min mobile phone call) until i have recieved the code. It is very frustrating!

£11.00 for a 20 minute call? :eek:

You need to learn to phone like a bloke:

1: "Going to the pub?
2: "Yep."
1: "See you there."

Less than 10 seconds.

mrbadexample

johannamse wrote:

You know what I do, which is really a silly idea, but makes me feel better...I have a list of blacklisted companies that I swear I will NEVER use again, and where possible I encourage others not to use them...Companies on my list...

Alliance and Leicester
Orange
Madhouse
HSBC
First Direct
others...can't remember anymore, I must have forgiven them!

Ooo...ooo...add Kwik Fit, McDonalds and AOHell.

viktory

Eliza252 wrote:

hey, am going to do everything i can to get out of the posh bar thing - in fact am going over to friends house to meet and greet first and then will probably slip away when no one is looking before they go out to the bar - i would just like to have a few friends left by the time i finish paying everything off!!

I am sure that if your friends are true friends they will understand why you can't go to expensive bars. :cool:

Vicky xx

jazzyjustlaw

I wouldnt use a phone if it cost £11.00 for 20 minutes. I would email people in fact I do.

Good Luck!!

thaylock

£120 ! Is that the bill for 1 month ? That is staggering.

My annual mobile phone bill is about £2.50, take a tip from me, you survived without a mobile before they were available to the masses, so why can't people survive without one now ? I use mine a few times per year so people can contact me when I take my car/motorbike in for a service, or I am waiting for British Gas to call me (or me contact them) at the places I rent out.

I just find it amazing how much people rely on their mobile phones so much these days.

Another reason I hardly use my mobile phone is because they fry your brain (don't care about what the mobile phone companies/scientists say to the contrary - They also said smoking was good for you in the 50's, 60's). Put your mobile phone up against your computer monitor & see how much interference/radiation there is (& this is what it's probably doing to your brain).

There, that's my rant.