Phones

Does anyone have any experience with those types of phones that you just pay per minute or so? DS started riding his bike around the neighborhood with friends. I am having a minor heart attack and want a way to get in touch with him but I don't want him to have a phone just yet - just something that he can take with him for an emergency.

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Both my Dad and FIL had pay as you go phones, but it wound up cheaper/easier to add them to our plan.
They both had basic flip phones, no way did we trust FIL with a smart phone. FIL ran thru his minutes pretty quickly. My dad made $100 last a whole year.

Currently we only have my dad, and we pay $20/month for service with Verizon.

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DS, DW, and my mom all use TracFone. I just renewed DS for another year, and it was about $50 with tax. 1000 texts are $5, which is mainly what he uses. Minutes are really cheap, and I don't usually add more that often. There are tons of promo codes around as well.

Phones

Hubby and I both use Tracfone. We pay $99 for an entire year of service. I have to add data to mine through the year, but I never spend more than $150, all in for a year of service. They run on verizon towers and we have no problems at all. I use mine to run my business.

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We used to have Tracfones for years. Loved it. Very inexpensive, good for emergencies, didn’t have any trouble with bad service or dropped calls. The phones are very basic, nothing fancy. I wanted an iPhone so we finally got rid of our tracfones after many years but I will probably get them for my kids to have on them if I need to reach them when they’re a little older & going to school.