of my money that is…

I was a T-Mobile customer for around 5 years with two lines. In early September I lost my phone. Over-all I was happy with their service and wanted to continue using them. After checking with them to get a replacement however, I was disappointed that they only offered around $50 off in exchange for a 12-month extension to my contract. So I decided to bite the bullet and get new service with another provider since I could get two new phones for free. I ended up with Verizon and so far am very happy with their service and the phones I received (Motorola E815’s).

Today I received my final bill from T-Mobile. I opened it up, expecting to pay $40 or $50 for the partial month we had their phones before switching to Verizon. I got quite a surprise.

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My dad’s a smart guy. He worked hard, had a successful career, put my sister and I through college (for the most part) and still managed to retire comfortably several before his 65th birthday. (He worked a couple of extra years to pay off his and his wife’s retirement home before retiring.)
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New Carnival of Personal Finance is up at hellodollar.com. Also, the Carnival of Debt reduction is up at ksfinancialprogressreport.blogspot.com. Haven’t read them yet myself but will in a min…

Launched the second of two web sites for work tonight. My team has been working on them for six months or so (altogether, we’ve had other project work as well.)

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