mobile phones

kel123_2

Yes Snaggles I did mean food on the table. I think it's all about priorities and state of mind and it took a payplan adviser to get me thinking and i'm not blonde (sorry LOL)

mymatebob

There are far too many people who think they "need" a mobile phone

As I have said mine is a tool that helps provide me with income- however if I did not have it I would need to find another way to generate that

I do object to the use of mobiles as an excuse for thinking.

As in the call on the way home about "what are you making for tea? Shall I pick up a carry out?"

And despite the ban I passed three cars and one van with drivers using their mobiles.

When I had a works phone (and before that a pager) I used to switch it off the minute I finished work.

tinkerbel

I like my phone too and like a typical teenager, I NEED it!
In my flat the landlone is a prepay 0780 line which is expensive to use and have peole call me on.
My boyfriend and I are at different unis and we have a 15p per hour deal to call each other, which I also have with my mum, dad and sister. I also get 3000 evening and weekend texts which I obviously dont use all of but it is nice just to text someone to tell them you're thinking about them! I only spend £15 a month to get these deals and I always top up from Boots. (Today, I got 345 boots points and 3 £5 vouchers for topping up mine and my bfs phones!) If I dont top up this amount, or want to call/text someone else in the daytime, I have a free contract Blyk sim card in an old handset.
I think that in todays world, having a mobile phone is good as I can tell my friend if i'm going to be late and without a landline its good as so many places expect you to be able to call them. I like having my phone too as it sort of makes me feel safer in the car when I'm driving. I know that I can't use it while driving, but if something happened to me, or someone else, I am confident that I would be able to get help. In this vain though I also like my satnav as it takes me home... when I get lost.

I think that most of the other peoples posts are very good and valid and I totally appreciate that we have changed due to social pressures and marketing ploys but mine works for me and it doesnt cost me a bomb. Maybe when I've finished uni I'll give it a break, but I doubt it!!

oo also though, i know what you mean about selling people contracts. Lots of my frinends have been enticed into 18month 'deals' and I only wish that I could afford what some of them are paying for their 'Free' texts and minutes!!!

Puzzledbubbles

Ive been reading this with interest, i could honestly say that i dont need my mobile, but if i didnt have it my life would be worse,

Its really my life line to old freinds, new friends and family, without my mobile i could use a land line but as everyone i know has a mobile i would rack up huge charges to call them.

I have had a contract for the last 7 years and I have probably spent a huge amount of cash, BUT as time has gone on the deals have got better and so have the phones, my mobile is not only my phone but my calendar, my camera, my calculator and my alarm clock.

I spend £35 a month and get 500 cross network minutes (of which i used 430 on average) and unlimited texts (last month i sent over 800 texts)

I think i get good value for money for the amount that i use my phone and my bill is always bugeted for as a standard payment.

I agree that some people would be better off on a payg or without a mobile at all but im just not one of them

Puzzled x

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Sheesh people, just because you don't need something doesn't mean it's not worth having. I don't need a TV, but it entertains me. I don't need deodorant, but i like how it stops me sweating. I don't need a Nintendo Wii, but i enjoy the antics of Mario...

Get a grip, we're not in the 3rd world. So what if you spend 30 quid a month on a phone and get good use out of it chatting to your girlfriend/boyfriend/parents/customers.

Damn hippies, throw your phone away if you don't want one, just don't !!!!! about needing it

Dill

I don’t think mobiles are needed as much as people think, and this idea of having to be constantly connected/in communication is probably not that good for us mentally.

It is convenient to have a mobile, but generally I find mobile phones quite intrusive. Like many others I don’t really want to hear someone talking inconsequential chit-chat loudly into their phone when I’m on a journey.

A few years ago I did give in and get one, as I got fed up with using the (rather smelly and disgusting) phoneboxes in the city where I live. I was given a mobile phone, by someone who was replacing theirs, and I’ve still got it. It must be ancient by today’s standards, but it rarely gets used, - £10 top up lasts for months.

I sometimes wish we could have a ‘mobile-free’ day.. if for just one day people all just switched off their mobiles..

kel123_2

Looks like i've sparked off an heated debate. Didn't mean it to go that way, just to pass on my experiance i.e. didn't know that I didn't need a mobile phone. Perhaps I should have started it off by saying:

Business folded and left me with £38k of debts.
before long received papers from court, RBS starting repossesion
Lloyds, GE, and some Irish finance company started defaulting and going to court.
Haddn't got £150 free money above essentials to start a DMP. Lets be honest I/we were *$%£ed.
Spent an hour each time on 3 different occations speaking to a payplan advisor
We did has they said and for the want of a different way of putting it 'cut out the crap' and found our £150 (we found £197.50 which is our DMP payment)
It took 12 months to sort out and for the last 15 months we are default free.
Even the mortgage is now normal with no arrears!
I've checked an old statement and the cost of our mobile phones was £50/month. I'm a tecno, I enjoy new technology but the mobile phones went and that left me to find £100/month. If I hadn't listened. if I hadn't cut out the crap then me and her would probably be living in a flat with Richard crainiums to the left, right, above and below, no sorry I wouldn't have been i'd have been in a box! Yes I know not all flats are like that and good people live in flats but which nabours would we have got?

As I have said it depends on the situation but have you really examined the cost or is it face.

Kel