Your college student's cell phone bill

bbkitty
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:43:32 +0000

OP here. H and I were talking about it because almost all of S’ friends have their own plans or pay for their portion of the bill. We have been paying for S’ phone as long as he’s had one. We also were discussing that by his age (college sophomore), we had some small regular bills that we paid and got used to budgeting money that way.

We almost see it as a way to help him start realizing that one day he will have bills (he has no credit cards or anything else) and he can’t use all of his money from his work study job to buy books and music like he tends to do.

He is on our plan for $10+$5 unlim texting+$5 nationwide long distance +taxes=about $25/month.