Posted on 01/06/2005 4:16:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
Verizon land line is costing me about $100 a month. Cell service with a thousand anytime minutes per month, anytime-anywhere long distance free, text messaging, a tiny cute color phone, caller ID, call forwarding, voicemail, and all sorts of other bells and whistles, is $39.99 a month. For an additional $4 per month I can get email on it, too. And I can call my kids without being charged minutes, too. If I did not need to maintain a land line for the home security system, I'd dump it in a heartbeat.
warmthechildren sounds like a liberal's perfect idea of 'helping the poor'. I wonder if they've ever considered the fact that someone who is having to accept charity from strangers may not WANT to meet them and spend time with them shopping for their kids. Sounds like its designed to make the GIVER feel good about the whole thing.
Post 47...... That girl needs a whipping, as my Grand-Daddy used to say!
Good Morning, Girl!
Had no creme brule', got so stuffed by the tarragon chicken salad and mushroom soup and bread and olive oil.
I'm going back on South Beach. ;-)
This food is toooo good!
It was so good to talk to you!
God Bless you and your Mom!
I've got a Verizon land line with all the bells and whistles - three-way calling, call waiting, call forwarding, remote call forwarding, caller ID, etc, and it's only $50.27 per month, in New Hampshire.
Are your taxes and tarriffs way higher where you are?
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/jewfaq/tzedakah.htm
Maimonedes, a legendary Torah scholar, opined that the second most meritorious form of charity is when neither the giver nor the recipient know the others' identity. Next is when the giver knows the recipient's identity but the recipient doesn't know the giver's.
I think this arrangment falls in either the fifth or sixth level - giving before being asked, or after.
Thanks for that link. My b-i-l, who is a Catholic priest, encourages tithing in his Parish, and his description of it is very much in line with the Hebrew teaching.
I live in Pyongyang-on-the-Potomac (that is, Montgomery County, Maryland), so of course everything is taxed and tariffed to death and back again. My landline service here does not include any of the bells and whistles you cite but I am including the long distance charges, which I get zapped with for calling places that are a fifteen-minute drive away, in northern Virginia. This is one of the things that makes cell-only calling more attractive.
Who's your long distance carrier? Verizon also?
I get all my clothes from the thrift store. It's amazing that people won't use the thrift store because it is charity so I end up getting clothes from there.
3500 sq foot house and I wear dead people's clothes.
This woman is the poster child for the "blame everybody else for my problems" low class piece of trash.
I hope her kids turn out better than she. They can't turn out much worse.
You make a good point. I wonder how many charities are designed to maximize donations rather than to maximize "good". The charity owners are looking for big, reliable salaries and expense accounts and tax benefits and bragging rights at their cocktail parties.
Thanks for the link. I've heard good things about this Maimonedes fellow.
In gradeschool, we used to tease one of my friends because his Mother made him wear the shoes his departed uncle was laid out in. "Dead man shoes!"
Beats the heck out a 900 ft rental and having designer threads. Value is value.
I see that you're including long distance charges in that. That's no doubt the majority of your bill.
You do need to have a chat with Verizon. There are plenty of local calling plans that would give you free calls to No. Va. and others that would give you cheaper long distance plans based on your calling pattern.
I have talked to very nice people at Verizon who have helped me pick the cheapest plan for me. (They were so nice that I almost felt guilty about changing my long distance service to AT&T)
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