Go Phone

We first bought a prepaid cell phone from Tracfone back when Donna’s mom moved in with us in 2000 so she could have a way to get in touch with us when we were away on weekends. We stayed with them for 6 years before their customer service on a non-working phone lost the business for them. We have had an AT&T GoPhone since then. Because we are very infrequent users, the phone never gets turned on until we want to make a call, we go for 25¢ a minute plan where we pay $25 every three months. That is a 100 minutes for 90 days, you would think that would be easy, not for us. The unused minutes roll over, but you have to buy more to keep them. We have now not used the phone so well that we have about $65 in the kitty and another time deadline is fast approaching.

Monday morning we thought we found a good way to “waste” some of those minutes we’ll never use, by texting HAITI to 90999, this will donate $10 to the Red Cross. It was an adventure for me to try and “text” using our little phone, but once I finally got it we were glad to help in a small way. Instantly I received a reply that informed me to text back the word YES to confirm and that it would take 24-48 hours for the money to come out of our account. It has now been 60 hours and our account balance has not gone down one bit. Seemed like a great idea…