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Tag Archives: Cell Phones

365 Day Photo Challenge 219/365 “Emotional Rollercoaster”

05 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Cell Phones, Emotions, Excitement, Happy, Phone, Photography, Upgrades

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I felt so bad for one of my daughters today.  We upgraded their phones a few days ago and they were supposed to have come in yesterday.  FedEx tried to deliver them yesterday but no one was home to receive them. So today my girls stayed home all day just so that they would be home to receive their new phones.  FedEx came and they opened their new phones only to find that one of the phones had my wife’s number.  When ordering their new upgrades I made the mistake and marked the wrong phone to be upgraded.  My daughter was devastated.  I arrived home in the middle of mass chaos.  My wife was on the phone with the carrier trying to explain to them what happened but they were unable to help. We ended up going to the phone store and after explaining to them what happened and about another hour and a half of computer work we finally got it swapped.  But there was a price.  The upgrade my wife was going to get later on won’t happen because I used her upgrade by accident when I screwed up and ordered the phone with the wrong number.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 214/365 “Excited Girls”

31 Friday Jul 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Broke, Cell Phones, Contract, Twins

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We don’t have a lot of money and having three kids, one in college and two being seniors in high school, makes it difficult “keeping up with the Jones”.  My twin girls share most things they have, including their bedroom.  We can’t afford for them to have a car so they drive my wife’s car to band camp.  They will walk to school once school starts. It’s unfortunate that they have to share so many things but like I said we just can’t afford it to be any other way.  Cell phones became an issue two years ago.  We simply could not afford to have them each have a smartphone, so we purchased each one of them a phone with minimal features.  They have complained many times saying that they can’t do school work and other things that their teachers want them to do. They each have iPods that they do some stuff for school on since they can hook up to the internet at the house wirelessly.  I’ve promised them that if we can afford it that I would purchase them smartphones when it’s time to upgrade.  We still can’t afford it but today their contract was up and I did what I promised them.  They don’t know it yet but they will be happy campers when the Fedex truck arrives on Tuesday.  I’ll have to made sacrifices but at least I fulfilled a promise I made to them.

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