Still Feels Good...

After years of steadfast resistance, it has finally happened. I've finally succombed to the wrath of Digicel...

Since March I've undertaken the task of creating a log of all my monetary transactions- what I spend, what I spend on, how much I spend, how much I withdraw from my account, what I lend, what I get back... Everything's logged. I can pretty much account for my money down to the last dollar. The first month of data was interesting- I wasn't spending as much on food as I thought (or budgeted for), and alot of the spending is almost uncontrollable miscellaneous spending. But what was clear is that I'm spending far too much on phone calls.

I was very much aware of that fact throughout the month, as there would sometimes be strings of days in which I bought a phone card every 24 hours. And I don't buy $100 cards anymore, so the spending was always great.

The next thing I was consequently forced to do was to figure out why I was spending so much on phone calls. Was it too many calls? Calls too long? S.O. getting too much airtime? My conclusion was this- now that I'm based in Kingston I'm forced to call many different people on a weekly basis from my cell phone. Many (or most) of these people have Digicel phones. So, for instance, an important 5 minute phone call to one of these people would cost me $90. That's $90 after just five minutes, and one call.

I had to find away to cut that cost. Digicel seemed like the only feasible solution (10/8 is great, but the bmobile plan I'm on makes calls to C&W phones cheaper, so I didn't want to get off that plan). Plus, as an added bonus, I'm now on the VIP plan, so the S.O. can hog airtime all she wants :-) So I bought a cheap little Nokia with very basic features. But it does 2 important things- it can make AND receive calls!

I feel like I've betrayed my family (C&W) by going for a Digicel phone. But I ain't making that much money, so I had to make economical choice. But don't get it twisted- it STILL feels good!