Money Matters
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Switching to T-Mobile
Since it comes up in conversation frequently around here, I thought I'd share that H and I went last night to start the process of terminating our Verizon contracts and switching to T-Mobile. It took awhile, as cell phone stuff always does, but was pretty straightforward and I don't think there is really going to be a catch. We went to a smaller data plan since streaming Pandora does not count against your data with T-Mobile and that's a huge chunk of our data usage. We are also getting (hangs head in MM shame) the new iPhones-but-since T-Mobile spreads out the cost over 2 years (0% financing) even with the new phones our monthly bill is going to be less than it was with Verizon already. With our trade-in credits my phone (I got a lower-storage model than H) will be paid off in less than a year and then it will be substantially lower than it was with Verizon. They also offer a better employee discount for H's company.
Once we get our last Verizon bill, we'll upload to a website and then get a Visa gift card in the mail for the full amount in 4-6 weeks. You can use the card to pay the bill directly if you don't mind being a hair late paying it, or borrow from savings and use the card for other things.
Where the catch seems to come in is if you want a new phone before 2 years is up, you have to pay off your current one. I'm not too worried about that however; if something crazy happens we'll just do it but I have always gotten two years out of my phones. I like not being tied into a contract as well. If you go over on data they also don't charge for that, they just throttle down your data speed.
I'll let you guys know if anything crazy happens...
*Disclaimer: It would be way more MM to not have iPhones or use so much data at all, and I own that*
Re: Switching to T-Mobile
Good for you!! I was also looking into that as well, but decided not to based on the crappy service reviews. Also, my parents have T-Mobile and they were always dropping calls like crazy. They do live in a woodsy area so they had to be outside to use the phone. They would also call us from the our in-state casino and the calls would drop. We've had no issue with Verizon anywhere, so that made me VERY hesitant to switch.
Luckily I was due for an upgrade at the end of the month, so I got an email about an early upgrade so I made some cheaper changes savings us about $15/month and I am happy about that.
Hope the service works out well for you, I know it's a great deal though.....!