Status: From Bleh to Fucked.

[awesomesprout]

God-fucking-damnit.

It's begun again.

The wave of shitty things happening all at once has begun it's path upon Jessica.

So check it out.

My cell phone got shut off, again.

I was trying to sleep and one of my friends called at like 11-something last night. So I ignored it and tried to sleep.

Then I got a text msg from Sprint saying my phone had been shut off. That my balance was $190.00.

Fuck.

I hate this shit. I just paid $90 dollars to my bill last week!! It's a brand new billing cycle!! How is it already shut off and at $190.00?!?!?! It feels like I just can't get ahead of things.

I swear to god.

So yah, Remember my previous post? Well up the amount a bit.

I need to borrow :: edit:: $100.00 :: edit :: to get my phone turned back on. I get paid on the 1st and the 15th and can pay whoever back on those dates.

Help.

Comments

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I can't help you out *That* much.

Maybe you should port the number to another (cheaper) plan like that $30/month unlimited-bay-area-minutes plan? I know their customer service reeks, but it's cheap!

[sproutchk.livejournal.com]

It's not that type of thing. My bill every month is only 80 dollars.

The reason it's so much is because I went over last month and they carried over the balance and already totalled up my bill for this month and added them together.

I have a spending limit of $125.00.

And well, obviously, it went over that.

So my bill is normally HIGHLY affordable. It's just because I went over last month they carried over the stupid amount.

[27outs.livejournal.com]

do you really NEED a cell phone between now and the first? That's not a survival issue, like food or gas, that's a convienence.

I have a few good books on budgeting if you want...

[sproutchk.livejournal.com]

Actually I do. It's my only real means of communication with people since I don't use the computer when I'm not at work and since I'm never home I do actually NEED my cell phone.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm ok.

It's not a matter of budgeting it's because of something that happened with my bill last month that got carried over. I just didn't realise they'd already have my monthly total so quickly plus what carried over.

[27outs.livejournal.com]

it's budgeting. If you bills aren't roughly what you expect, it's a budgeting issue. Instead of running from crisis to crisis, puttng out financial emergencies, why not attack the root cause?

[sproutchk.livejournal.com]

Ryan. Trust me. This is the first time it's been an issue.

I budget just fine.

What happened in this case is this:

I went over my minutes last month. Sprint has a spending limit of $125.00.

I paid my bill last month. The amount I didn't pay carried over.

Then they charged my usual monthly amount, which I didn't know they did so quickly after the billing cycle started, and added it to the carried over amount.

I thought I had more time.

That's all the the issue is.

It's not a crisis to crisis issue.

And truthfully I didn't even expect help from anyone. I just thought I'd ask, the worst that would happen is people would say no or just not respond.

[27outs.livejournal.com]

ok. just trying to help. I'm not trying to attack you.

Most people can't budget.

[sproutchk.livejournal.com]

No worries, didn't see it as an attack. And I appreciate the advice.