Yesterday morning, Mr. Handsome and I stopped by the Verizon store to purchase a new smart phone for him. He wasn’t so thrilled about the monthly price tag, so he came up with a “solution.” Check out our video below, and let me know in the comments section what you think of his proposal. I’m also curious to hear what kind of cell phone you have. We both have iPhones because they are especially easy to use.
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ellie quit talking and let ur husband finish talking!
wow, your comment is so rude!
Cute video! My vote is for team Ellie😄. My husband
and I work two-hours apart, have 4 kids, and
communicate often. We bought our two youngest
( both teenagers) refurbished iPhones from Verizon
for 99 cents. You need your own phone😄.
Oh no! Would never work unless you were 24/7 together
I do not think a shared phone is a good idea for a couple. He’s at work and needs to text you, he can’t do that with a shared phone. I live with my sister and I call her often on the ride home to have her preheat the oven, gather up the trash, or ask if i need to bring home milk! Think of it this way you’re not paying for a landline, so the second cell phone acts as a landline. Also I go thru sprint on a family plan and am currently paying 50-70 dollars a month,
Cricket lets you bring your own phone and has unlimited talk and text, plus 3 gigs of data a month. Switch. 🙂
Can’t find a video anywhere on this post. I’m using a little laptop that was just updated on Friday!
That’s very odd. Other readers have been able to watch the video. Is your Adobe Flash Player updated?
Ellie
You definitely need your own cell phone. It’s a matter of safety as well as convenience. One way to cut back on costs would be to have one smart phone and one basic phone. There are some basic phones at Verizon that are fairly reasonable per month. You’re able to call and text with a basic phone even if you don’t have internet access. Another way to save is determining how much data you really need per month and adjust your plan, if you can reasonably go lower.
My family also uses Verizon because it is the only reliable carrier in the area. All the other companies drop calls. I still use an iPhone 5. It was such a big deal when I purchased it and it still works well enough that I can’t justify getting a new one.
Thanks for the video. You two have a great sense of humor.
Nope. My other half works 10 days in a row out of town. We need our own phones.
No on sharing a phone. What if he’s at work and he needs to text you he can’-t because you would have the phone.
I have a Tracfone I don’t use it as offen. .just for emergency only. I also have a landline .
Couples lived happily for centuries without phones at all. Most adults talk about young people these days feeling “entitled”. Reckon where they learned that.
I completely agree. Neither my husband nor myself have a phone and we’re 28 and 29 years old and we’re still alive. If you have a landline and internet access at home you don’t really need a cellphone. We both have landline phones in our offices at work so we can call each other at work or at home and that’s enough. This lifestyle means that you need to use your brain and plan things and not get stressed if the other person is 5 minutes late. You just accept life as it comes. There’s a great documentary coming out today called “Connected” it is probably well-worth the watch.
We have LG phones Tracfone. We prefer pay as you go plans which works best for us. Ellie, I really think you and your husband should have separate phones in case of emergency or maybe one of your friends might need to get a hold of you. Do you have a landline phone? We decided not to get a landline phone have one less bill to worry about.
Sorry, Mr. Handsome, but being able to reach one another quickly and reliably is essential. Only having one cell phone will not provide you with this necessity … nice try, though! Another vote for Ellie. 🙂
No to sharing a phone. You both need to be able to communicate especially with an emergency.
I cannot get past the price! $50 for Smartphone service? Is everything so inexpensive in Nashville?? I pay almost twice that on the west coast for just the basic of service.
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Where’s the video?
It is embedded below the text. Can you not see it? Others are able to.
Ellie
No, I can’t! It literally seems like there’s o video at all. 🙁
I can’t see anything indicating there is a video except that you mention it in the post.
I can’t find a video anywhere either. I have no idea where a video “below” would be. There’s no box, no button, no link. Tried with a laptop and a desktop. Nothing. Not having this problem on any other site.
I can’t see any video from my laptop, but I can see it with my smartphone…What an irony! You should tell Mr Handsome that! 🙂
I don’t see a video either
Perhaps a couple could have one shared smart phone, and each a very cheap phone… the older kind that simple text or call. Then the concept of a couple phone could hold weight.
I haven’t been able to see your videos for awhile either. On your old site or here. I used to be able to. Also, the print of my comment is so light gray, it’s hard to see. Congratulations on the new website!
My husband and I tried the one cell phone thing. It was a terrible idea. I was the one with the phone because I take 2 buses to work. When i got stranded at the station, I could not let him know and had to call others to collect me and take me home. Plus, we didn’t have a way for him to get help when the car broke down on the highway. Now, we have less expensive phones and a relatively cheap plan that includes both phones with unlimited talk, text and internet.
A shared cell phone is not practical. Most people do not have a land line so they depend on their personal cell phone. Just not the best idea Mr. Handsome! ! ~C
Try Walmart! I had their straight talk or something.
Ellie,
I know I already commented but actually I commented before I watched the video because I already felt it was better to have separate phones. Anyway, I was watching the video and your husband was drinking his coffee drink. Well the Teavana logo reminded me that I forgot to take the tea bags out of cold brew I had going and I needed to make simple syrup. It’s funny how watching a video will remind one of something totally unrelated to the video topic!
Also after watching the video now I’m thinking you two should sit down together and weigh the pros and cons of having a shared phone and let him make the final decision.
(And yes the tea bags are out and the simple syrup is cooling)😊
Why does he get to make the final decision? They’re a married couple you make decisions together.
Glad you asked that. As Christians, we believe that the husband is the head of the home, but we do sit down and discuss decisions together, and we usually make them together. However, if we ever cannot come to an agreement (doesn’t happen often), Mr. Handsome does have the final say. But as a husband living biblically, he is responsible before the Lord to make a prayerful decision that is best for both of us. There is no place for selfishness in godly marriages. Both husband and wife must be committed to focusing on “us”/where the Lord is leading us, rather than “me”/what I want.
Hope that makes sense. 🙂
Ellie
I say you each need your own phone. You could share the iPhone and maybe get a cheap flip phone that the person not using the iPhone could use. I also got the older version of the iPhone, 7plus, when I had to upgrade. Maybe you could look at cheaper smart phones as well.
Also love your hair. The high lights look great.
You definitely need two phones. I tried to convince my husband to try going down to one car. I don’t think it would be too much work for the kids and I to drive him to and from work, and we’re mostly together over the weekends anyway. He wouldn’t go for it. We don’t have efficient public transportation where we live, and to be fair, my plan involved me having the car.
why smartphone?
the phone = text+call
if you need just the phone (like me), it`s not that expensive at all. 😉
We still have landline, 5 phones in the house. Than we have 1 Alcatel flip phone that we share, we buy minutes once a year. The video is cute and I wish you luck in working this out…Jane
Both of you need access to phones so you can contact each other. My husband has an iphone an older model and I have a pay as you go. We also still have a landline. It is important to be able to communicate with others in case of an emergency. Eileen
When I first became a SAHM, my husband and I decided to go from 2 cellphones to one. For 7+years we shared one cellphone, We just recently got another cellphone, as I was starting to travel more for volunteer work. My husband and I have a landline which helped. He also works 3rd shift, so he took the cellphone to work with him and then I had the cellphone during the day. Whoever left the house in the evening would take the phone with them. We communicated thru Facebook messenger while he was at work. We have always shared a wallet too. People don’t understand why we do, but I don’t understand why others don’t. He takes his id to work at night and leaves the wallet for me. When he is not at work, whoever leaves the house takes the wallet with them. Going back to the cellphone, though it requires some planning to make it work, sharing a cellphone can be done. Humans went years with out cellphones. Having a cellphone or two is not a NEED, but a WANT. Good luck with whatever you decide.
It’s just something to make life more simple, nothing wrong with that.
I still have a landline in my house. What if your power went out at your house and your cell phone wasn’t charge then you would beable to call anyone so it’s best to get a Tracfone they are cheap.
I think you guys are cute, and I believe this is tongue-in-cheek, so…go get another phone! You need two. Save money on Starbucks instead! LOL! (Says the girl who lives her Venti quad flat white breves).
Blessings!
Couples phone is a great idea. We have talked about doing the same thing.
No!
Safety comes first. If she got in a car accident and you had the phone how would you expect her to contact you or 911?
I love your husband’s kind of humor;)
You guys are really cute together! Very funny how he tried to persuade you with couple’s Starbucks.
My husband and I live in South Korea and I just do college online all day. So we have two phones but only his has data because I’m hooked up to wifi all the time. Very rarely are we out and about and apart but when we have been, there have been some problems. We left the house at different times once and once I arrived at the bus stop and he wasn’t there like I was expecting, there was no way for us to know where the other was! He’d gone to a completely different bus stop.
From a couple with two phones but only one that works outside of wifi areas, I recommend two phones! Team Ellie!
Sorry, Mr. Handsome, but I vote with Ellie. My husband and I both have cell phones. They are not smart phones. We don’t really need those. Mine is a flip phone. We make calls and text with them. They are also pay as you go. We also have a landline. 99% of our calls are on our landline. Cells are for when we are out or an emergency. We both pay about $10/month for the amount of time we use our phones. But in today’s world it is important to have an emergency phone with you. It’s not like the old days when there were phone booths all over the place.
No to sharing for a phone. Check out straight talk from Walmart. It’s a good option for some people.
elle dont interupt ur husband when he talks. its rude let him finish talking . thats all2 phones . shelia
I’m with you, Ellie! In this day and age it’s not doable or worthy to share a phone. Simply because you are two different people, you’re not the same person. So first of all you will need to contact each other, and second of all you both will have necessities and other people to contact.
You’re also on point when you say that if you really are to the point of having to give up a phone, it means you can’t afford a lot of other things either…
My husband and I share a phone and have for the past 2 years. It works fine for us because he works here in our town and I am a homemaker. We have a landline as well. You end up communicating more by telling each other who called and what they needed. I realize that this would not work for everyone, but it can work for some people.
No on the shared phone, not very practical. But I am in favor of less expensive phones. My husband needs his smart phone for work. I however just use my free phone from Verizon. I have the fee phone every 2 years from Verizon. So I have never payed for a cell phone! It makes and receives calls and texts. So that is a less expensive option! We have internet at home so I can do all my email ect…from home.
It works great for us!
Blessings
Mr Handsome is right, because he says the big business should accommodate the two that have become one. Just exactly what that accommodation should look like or practically could look like is a really good question. Obviously there needs to be two physical phones. So maybe calls between them should be unlimited and just an auto dial push button to the mate’s phone, in the shape of a heart. Then the incoming call should always override any call the partner may be on, notifying itself as a call from the couple partner with a flashing heart! And maybe the overall usage for both phones should be just a bit more in cost than one phone and not as much as two. Then the two phones should get ONE bill which tracks ALL calls and ALL phone numbers outgoing and incoming for BOTH phones written on ONE shared bill. (This last point is very crucial….the two lives are now one so everything should be transparent and available to the complete examination of the other partner. Forget mutual trust, that could lead to secret lust!) You can pass these onto cell phone providers!
Ellie you should be flattered and happy that Mr H. wants to keep you close! And if you have a phone many men would want your number because you are very beautiful!
I agree with others, no to the shared phone for safety and convenience reasons. When you start a family you will definitely feel safer having a phone with you. We recently had to purchase a phone for my 13 year old’s birthday. I asked the salesperson about IPhone 6’s, they showed us something that was less expensive but the size of my iPhone 5. I contacted a local iPhone repair store and they were selling refurbished phones for much less. I told the Verizon rep that we found out about a used phone and were going to check it out. Suddenly they had some IPhone 6’s in the back stockroom! If it’s not too late, look into other options and consider returning your husband’s phone for a cheaper alternative. I still use my iPhone 5, it works just fine. Good luck!
I think it could work, U would need a landline, so when of U leave the other person at home has a phone to use. Could U save money like, could one of U ride a bike to work to save on gas??? Don’t use paper towel, like throw away stuff??
Personally I’m not a fan. When I was little I was in the car with my dad and another car slammed into us and we had to go to the hospital. One of my parents not having a phone would not have been great during that situation. I vote both of you have a phone.
No shared phones. That’s just ridiculous
I have a phone plan thru Straight talk 10g and unlimited talk and text and pay $47.26 a month and i usually dont even come close to the 10g
Ellie the volume was low I could hardly hear you. I had to turn the volume high enough to hear your voices.
Dear Ellie, I don’t know how you find the time to keep up with all your blogs. It was really neat hearing you were born in Canada. So was I, in Nova Scotia, on the Atlantic coast. I’ve been trying to find out for the past few years, if there’s someway Canadians can either buy episodes, seasons, or pay to watch episodes online. When I’ve inquired, the answer has always not available in Canada. I imagine you being born in Canada, have heard the same things from other Canadians. I hope someday, “Bringing up Bates” and “Nashville Wife” will be available to us. Thank you for all you do. Blessings!
Hi Judy,
Nova Scotia is a place I would love to visit. The episodes of both shows air in Canada, but you can’t purchase them unless you are able to access iTunes US or Amazon US. It’s definitely unfortunate!
I’m blessed to have you as a reader. 🙂
Ellie