May 2016 – Republic Wireless Bill

The May payment to Republic Wireless for my wife’s phone was $21.32. That includes unlimited calling and texting, 1 GB of data, and a $6.53 credit for the data she didn’t use the month before. We kept the standard 512 MB plan this month, but ran out of data right before a weekend trip, so we bought an…

April 2016 – Project Fi Bill

For April 2016, my Project Fi bill came out to be $31.42. That includes: Unlimited calls and texts for $20 2GB of data for $20 Taxes and fees for $3.20 Refund for 1.178 GB of unused data – $11.78 So far I’ve been pretty happy with Project Fi, but with the new Bonded Calling from Republic Wireless, if…

April 2016 – Republic Wireless Bill

The April payment to Republic Wireless for my wife’s phone was $18.72. That includes unlimited calling and texting, 512 MB of data, and a $1.09 credit for the data she didn’t use the month before. There appears to be a lot of good things coming this year to Republic, such as the addition of a GSM network…

March 2016 – Project Fi Phone Bill

For March 2016, my Project Fi bill came out to be $31.29. That includes: Unlimited calls and texts for $20 2GB of data for $20 Taxes and fees for $3.23 Refund for 1.195 GB of unused data – $11.94 Other highlights include the fact that Project Fi no longer requires an invite to join their service. They’re also selling…

March 2016 – Republic Wireless Bill

The March payment to Republic Wireless for my wife’s phone was $17.34. That includes unlimited calling and texting, 512 MB of data, and a $2.48 credit for the data she didn’t use the month before. If you’re looking for inexpensive phone service and you’re around WiFi most of the time, check out Republic Wireless. They have 2…

47, and counting…

You might be asking yourself, “47 what?” If all goes well, 47 more months and we’ll have our house paid off. That cuts about 60 months from where we were going to be. We’ve wanted to pay off our house for some time, but haven’t really focused any concentrated effort at getting it done other than…

February 2016 – Project Fi Phone Bill

For February 2016, my Project Fi bill came out to be $35.47. That includes: Unlimited calls and texts for $20 2GB of data for $20 Taxes and fees for $3.23 Refund for 0.776 GB of unused data – $7.76 This gives me access to both Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks so as they battle it out to be…

February 2016 – Republic Wireless Bill

Starting last month I began reporting how much we’re paying for my wife’s cell phone bill. I’ll try to plan on continuing this, as well as posting my results with Google’s Project Fi starting with my next bill. That being said, our February payment to Republic Wireless was $17.53. That includes unlimited calling and texting, 512…

January 2016 – Republic Wireless Bill

A few months ago I switched my phone service to Project Fi and my wife’s to Republic Wireless. We simply couldn’t get good cell service in our area unless it’s using Sprint towers. Luckily both Project Fi and Republic Wireless use Sprint. So far, we’ve been very happy with Republic Wireless’s ability to use WiFi and…

Simple trick to pay down debt slightly faster

We’ve got one last debt to pay off… our mortgage. We’ve made pretty good progress, but I wish it were paid off yesterday. A while ago I came up with a plan to pay it off slightly faster than we were, but without messing up our budget or putting us in a crunch. I ran by…