Cell Phones

As part of my journey to regain my lost honor (story for another time) I keep all commitments.  I have one that I do not look forward to keeping.

Monday morning I will be making a trek into "town" to buy --------- a  dreaded old person non traceable flip phone, along with a fist full of cards !!!

Prayers and energy will be most welcome !!!

If I never post again, know that I wish for all of you to one day find your ;

Peace

You poor thing.  

If I could live life without a cell that would be lovely.  But I would need to find a new car that won't break down every 2 months.  Alas, my network no longer supports my phone (it's only 26 years old!) so I will have to buy one of these so called smart gizmos soon.  I can relate to your pain.  

Sending good thoughts your way.  

Flip phones are the best kind of phones. When you own one, you will happily find that you are not one of the disconnected people in society that cannot even go to a simple ball game or dinner without scrolling through their phone. I would not buy anything else. God speed on your trek!  

I didn't know we can still get flip phones.  I didn't see any in the shops when I looked.

But if I can find one, that would be great.

My present I phone 6 is dying.  The only functions that work on it are sending/receiving calls and voicemail.   I really can’t see spending a couple hundred dollars to get a free phone.

I've just returned from my trip into the "city" and it wasn't as bad as I feared it may have been.  I now have a Tracfone with a single month service card.

Lady Raven, there were many, many flip phones to choose from at this W Mart store.  Not sure about up North, but I would think they should be sold everywhere in this day and time.

John, this phone and a monthly card were less than $40.00.  So if you don't need all the bells and do-dads of a smart phone check out flips as a replacement.

I will learn the buttons to use to answer and turn this thing off, everything else, like remove mail and text, I can ask someone to help with that.  I still don't want a phone as I've lived without one for the last 6 or 7 months.  It's just me now as my mother passed away last year and I've refused all medical treatments.  I do have 4 or 5 good friends, that are my true family that check in on me and offer rides to the store when needed.  I got the phone for them.

Looking at this thingy upon the kitchen table I feel a little ---------- sullied  Not sure if that is the right word.  I hope I don't regret getting this phone, if it becomes too much for me to handle, I can always take it to the rifle range and use it as a target !!!

Thanks for the update.

I shall attempt the box stores and see what they have.  Good idea.

Deane Adams wrote: I keep all commitments.  Peace

A story from an acquaintance of mine.

They found her brother dead on the floor... after several days of hot weather.

The postman noticed the mail he delivered was piling up, and peeked through the slot.

The postman was not the sort who was used to dealing with dead bodies and was somewhat emotionally distraught by the experience.

If texting a friend once in the morning and once in the evening will protect them from experiencing a 4 day old body in a heat wave, I hope that's a kindness you can extend to them. Yes, you're doing this for them, not you. I get that.

I had a flip phone for years, and went back to a flip phone a couple years ago. I was wasting 2-3 hours a day on the stupid thing, which actually less than the average time a person spends on their phone. But I thought to myself......what could I do with an extra 2-3 hours a day, every day? I love it and won't go back to a smart phone.

Deane and others who may already be using Tracfone....

Clearly things with cell phone providers can change rapidly, but a bit of experience of my own from managing my phone and my wife's phone.  Have liked Tracfone for many years for the plan shown below.  My first phone with Tracfone was a Nokia which then transitioned to a flip phone at some point.  Then a few years back, also dove into the smartphone world and got both wife and I a pair of iPhone 6s's.  Good news at the time:  No change in $99/365 days charge.  It gets more interesting when, after having some issues with connection from our rural abode, I traded up to an iPhone 12.  Not being immersed in the techie loop, I did not realize this automatically came with 5G capabilities.....and an apparent increase in price for the service???   At any rate, you can see that now in the image pasted below that the $99/365 days of service bargain price is now only available for flip phones.  So in way, "phone size matters" ;-/   ....in service plan price.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong with this interpretation.  So that price shown below was just clipped from Tracfone's website a few minutes ago in case that cost make more sense for your needs and budget.  If more minutes are needed along the way, last time I up'd it was 400 minutes for $10....that may have changed by now.  Good luck!

We have the kid on a trackfone. With the added fees it is $27 per 60 days. He has a 4G phone. Most of his internet is on WiFi. All minutes and data not used are rolled over to the next cycle.

He currently has 1400 minutes of talk saved up.

r ranson wrote:I didn't know we can still get flip phones.  I didn't see any in the shops when I looked.

But if I can find one, that would be great.

You just have to buy one that will work with these 5G towers. Kyocera makes a rugged version that I have my eye one right now. Kyocera

Elanor Gardner wrote:
You just have to buy one that will work with these 5G towers.

Actually, that's not required. 5G is another layer on top of the 4g. If you can't pick it up, you just run on 4g absolutely fine. I am running non 5G and my phone works well, even where 5 is available. 4 is a bit slower than 5, but if you feel the need for scalding fast technology, you probably aren't pricing flip phones

I'm not on a flip phone, but I AM on the oldest smart phone I can run on the Verizon network They HATED hooking that up, tried hard to talk me into newer tech, nope. I only went up to that one because they depreciated 3G in this area and my old one only did 3. Interestingly, my 4G phone is slower than my 3G phone was.

I have zero interest in having 5G.

Thank you Pearl, you gave me a smile this morning, "older" can still be cool.

The phone that the nice lady at the store chose for me was a  Blu Flex.  The only thing that I asked for was the phone model that had the record of fewest returns.  I can't offer any reports on how the many functions of the phone work, cause I don't plan to use em!  I've written the 5 numbers on some card stock cut to fit under the flip.

I know that I'm not very tech savvy and I'm good with that.  I can and do learn new things, just not much tech "stuff"

Peace

we do yard work, deliver groceries and check on a house bound friend periodically.
Quite awhile back I convinced her to get a cell phone as a way to easily check in with us every day...cheap, reassuring and simple.
the daily message can be a word although hers have become quite chatty!

It's an easy way to communicate for our peace of mind.

I'm glad you got your cell phone Deane!