Comments on: For your reading pleasure http://www.debtreduction101.com/2010/03/14/10889_for-your-reading-pleasure.html Digging my way out of debt Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cassandra http://www.debtreduction101.com/2010/03/14/10889_for-your-reading-pleasure.html/comment-page-1#comment-1297 Cassandra Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:32:15 +0000 http://www.debtreduction101.com/?p=889#comment-1297 I think college students not being able to give up internet and cell phones is quite funny. I choose not to give up my internet but I can if need be. In fact, this week I have been turning off my computer for several hours in the morning and again in the afternoon. My productivity has sky rocketed! It's nice not being distracted by emails/IM/RSS. My cell phone gets left at home a lot and people complain that that's not the point of having a cell phone. I tell them that just because I have a cell phone doesn't mean I have to be tied to it 24 hours a day. Besides, if it's an emergency, most people have my husband's cell number and he has his all the time (work). I think college students not being able to give up internet and cell phones is quite funny. I choose not to give up my internet but I can if need be. In fact, this week I have been turning off my computer for several hours in the morning and again in the afternoon. My productivity has sky rocketed! It’s nice not being distracted by emails/IM/RSS.

My cell phone gets left at home a lot and people complain that that’s not the point of having a cell phone. I tell them that just because I have a cell phone doesn’t mean I have to be tied to it 24 hours a day. Besides, if it’s an emergency, most people have my husband’s cell number and he has his all the time (work).

]]> By: Paul http://www.debtreduction101.com/2010/03/14/10889_for-your-reading-pleasure.html/comment-page-1#comment-1288 Paul Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:12:11 +0000 http://www.debtreduction101.com/?p=889#comment-1288 I read the last two articles - the one on "The Compact" is an interesting idea, I'm just curious what would happen if everyone did this, there would be no used stuff for everyone to get :) The other one though about college kids giving up their technology stuff - I have to disagree with some of that, especially cell phones. For most people under the age of 30, or people like me, that has replace all sorts of other stuff - I no longer pay the huge amount I had to pay for a land line and long distance, and I'm now seeing people using that as their primary or only source of internet, dropping the need for a cable modem or DSL (I still have that because of my job, but more and more people don't). For me, I know I've saved a ton of money over the past 8 years not having a land line, and am freed from worrying about being home all the time when I am expecting a phone call. Sure you can argue we shouldn't be so "tied" to communication, but it doesn't mean it's all bad either. I read the last two articles – the one on “The Compact” is an interesting idea, I’m just curious what would happen if everyone did this, there would be no used stuff for everyone to get :)

The other one though about college kids giving up their technology stuff – I have to disagree with some of that, especially cell phones. For most people under the age of 30, or people like me, that has replace all sorts of other stuff – I no longer pay the huge amount I had to pay for a land line and long distance, and I’m now seeing people using that as their primary or only source of internet, dropping the need for a cable modem or DSL (I still have that because of my job, but more and more people don’t). For me, I know I’ve saved a ton of money over the past 8 years not having a land line, and am freed from worrying about being home all the time when I am expecting a phone call. Sure you can argue we shouldn’t be so “tied” to communication, but it doesn’t mean it’s all bad either.

]]> By: Katy Wolk-Stanley http://www.debtreduction101.com/2010/03/14/10889_for-your-reading-pleasure.html/comment-page-1#comment-1281 Katy Wolk-Stanley Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:41:49 +0000 http://www.debtreduction101.com/?p=889#comment-1281 Thanks for the nice words. The Non-Consumer Advocate is a labor of love for me, so it's nice to know that it's connecting out there in the big wide world. Katy Wolk-Stanley "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." Thanks for the nice words. The Non-Consumer Advocate is a labor of love for me, so it’s nice to know that it’s connecting out there in the big wide world.

Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”

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