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To: Liberty7732
The middle class is struggling because of $150 phone cell bills, $200 cable bills, and $1,200 mortgage payments.

Yes, yes, good for you for dropping cable years ago, and for using a Cricket Wireless flip phone for $19/month. I'm talking about the average middle class family, not the average FReeper family.

20 posted on 06/05/2018 9:03:52 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Yes. My ATT/DirecTv bill is over $300 a month, for a “smart phone”, a tablet, both with unlimited data, and a flip phone for my dad; we have the lowest tier of DirecTv, no sports/NFL ticket/movie package. We have no other internet service, as I live in the boonies with no cable, no DSL, no uVerse, so it’s either tether to the tablet, or satellite (which is 10 Gb a month, $100, and rate limited after the 10 Gb).

My mortgage, started in 2003, has been around $1300 a month (+ escrow). My soon-to-be-ex-wife didn’t bother to pay it for 6 months or so, and I have no idea what she did with the money that was deposited into her account (don’t get me started on why we had to have separate accounts, but I’m THANKFUL now that we did).

I still don’t understand why my mobile/TV bill is so damn high, but AT&T (as well as Trim, and some of the other bill reduction services) says it’s as low as it can be. I’m thinking of moving to Dish/Verizon, because I just can’t keep paying the $330+ a month for this crap.


49 posted on 06/05/2018 12:28:30 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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