Rationalizing $15 in my head.
I am sitting at Hyde Park United Methodist Church, waiting for breakfast, and I thought to myself, “Why do I pay fifteen bucks a month for internet by phone?”
It makes sense in my head: The cost of a newspaper each day is 25ยข, and $1 on Sundays.
That comes to $2.50 a week. Spread over a month, the average cost is about $11.
That does come out to be less than my internet, but I do lose a lot of content.
For $4 less, I lose search engines, online phone books, constantly updated weather, access to various weblogs, email on the go (Gmail), instant messenger access*, and many other tools that I would need Internet access for, on top of the fact that I can access just about any news source out there from this phone. I’d also lose a fair bit of portability: You can’t really fit the daily newspaper in your jeans pocket in a normal situation. You can fit most phones in your pocket.
Plus, you should ideally dispose of a newspaper in recycling bins, which seem to be few and far in between here.
It made me stop, and say to myself, “Wow. I’ll stick to the $15. Thanks.”
I do this…I try to break things down to daily use and things to see if I can justify things. My computer is such an entertainment avenue for me, that I’d take this over a television any day. Like you, I get my news online as well. I stopped reading newspapers quite a bit ago..it seemed redundant.