Drop the minutes and data plans to the minimum and drop your 2 regular phones. Then share your plan with other people if you can. I am sharing a family plan wi

Drop the minutes and data plans to the minimum and drop your 2 regular phones. Then share your plan with other people if you can. I am sharing a family plan with my inlaws at 550 minutes for the 3 of us. I also pay $15/month for data, so incrementally my 3rd cell phone adds $25/month + fees to the monthly costs. I keep cell data turned off most of the time except when I truly need to use it (typically Pandora or mapping while driving). I typically use more than 550 minutes of phone time by myself each month as follows: In office: Google Voice (free). At home: My wife uses T-mobile@home service for $10/month. No longer available but you can use Google Voice comfortably at home with the right kind of phone router, such as this one: http://www.amazon.com/OBi202-Phone-Adapter-Router-2-Phone/dp/B007D930YO http://www.amazon.com/OBi202-Phone-Adapter-Router-2-Phone/dp... Lots of high quality cell phone use on a single day: T-mobile $2 for the day (with my old Blackberry, which gives me much higher voice quality) Our total monthly costs including fees and taxes are about $45. For that price we have unlimited domestic calling at home and in my office, I have an iPhone 4s with limited minutes and data and my wife has Virgin Mobile cell phone that she only uses for emergencies. Would only be $35/month if we got the above-referenced phone router and dropped T-mobile@home.