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Originally Posted by Catlady
AT&T will roll over unused amounts up to $500--and yes, I have come close to this plateau a couple of times. I periodically text money to the Red Cross and other charities that are set up for such donations to lower my balance.
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When I was on a Virgin Pay-as-you-go type account many years ago, it was only something like $20 every 3 months to top up, but you had to do it even if you still had plenty of money left in the account. When my balance was over $250, I decided this was rather silly to just let money I'll never use just sit there, you can't get a refund, so I bought a much better phone with the excess (I'm not a big phone talker either). I had no idea you could send money to other organizations from those accounts and never thought to look into that. I eventually switched to their $25/month plan (I had enough accrued again to pay the monthly fee for almost a year) and would have stayed there except it was really limited what phones you could switch to under that plan. When I wanted a nicer phone, I eventually switched to Cricket for $35/month when they switched over entirely to GSMA, and I've been happy with it, their coverage is better than I had with Virgin.
I keep wanting to try
Ting, I'd cut our phone bill in half, and I've heard nothing but good things about Ting so far from others. If Cricket ever does something stupid or raises rates much, I'll switch to them. As long as I can bring my own phone (so I can be sure I have one with a replaceable battery, which is why I went with the LG G5 instead of the G6).