I received a text message from AT&T saying my bill is ready to view. I have it set up to auto pay, so I mostly ignore it, until it clears. They said the text message was because my email had failed. So I had to log in to check, all is fine. Who knows what happened. Of course since it had been a while since I logged in, I had to set up new security questions.
My bill is $154 for three cell phones. We never get remotely close to the data limits. It got me wondering about what my bill was in the past so I fired up Quicken. I just click on the last AT&T payment and it will run a report. I changed it from last 4 months, to all activity. It did just that. Since 1989 I have spent over 20K on phone bills. That included buying the phones, and even the olden days of full on land lines, with (Gasp) long distance charges. I used to log in the charges for long distance costs. It was such a rip off. Now of course no one pays long distance unless you call out of the country.
It was funny to see the bill go from AT&T to Cingular, and back to AT&T, and I never changed anything, it was all them. My old original cell phone the Nokia candy bar size phone was $31
pr month. When I drank the kool-aid and went with a smart phone, the bill went up a lot, but I can't imagine going without it now. I lived without it for most of my life. But I lived without Air Conditioning & B&W TV as a kid, and I am never going back to that either.