Nothing wrong with Palmolive, if you’re working over a sink. But a lot of folks (me included) end up working on cars where there isn’t a ready source of running water right there, so we tend to bring a bucket of water, some shop towels, and Go-Jo. The Go-Jo (or a similar cleaner) will get your hands clean, and you can dip them in the water just to rinse the contaminated cleaner off. A quick dry with the shop towels and you’re ready to go. Anything that makes suds won’t work as well under those circumstances.

Nice price. For folks that missed this deal and need some cheap hand cleaner, good old reliable Go-Jo in the white can is still less than $3 for 14 oz at WallyWorld.

@louis-redfoot said in redpocket:

@ctcarl damn! tello doesn’t like my vertu … their paygo is the best i’ve seen

at this point i have a $3/minimum-month t-mobile paygo (10c per text/minute, no data) that i almost never use. i’m always home and i use google hangouts via ipad for free. essentially i pay $3/month just to have a mobile line open.

That’s not bad at all. I have a grandfathered TMOB “Golden Rewards” prepay line where any refill is good for a year. So every year I throw another $10 refill on, and keep it in my glovebox for emergencies.

@redmed said in redpocket:

Sticking with PagePlus. It’s on the Verizon network and is only $80 a year. Only $6.67 a month, find something cheaper than that.

There must have been some changes over at PagePlus. I had them for a year or so, and other than the fact that they were a Verizon MVNO, I didn’t find much to recommend them.

When I had the 2000 minute plan, it was a “3G only plan”. That didn’t just mean you couldn’t get LTE data, it meant that they would not activate an LTE device. Wasn’t a problem for me at the time, I had ZTE Venture 3G phones. But in 2017, that strikes me as a pretty serious limitation for any cell plan.

The other problem I had with PP (on a monthly plan) was that autopay routinely did not “re-up”. The dealer I used…and I had to use a dealer, because the 2000 minute plan was a “secret” plan that was only available through dealers…warned me in advance that, due to some sort of bug with PP, sometimes your autopay wouldn’t “take” and your account would expire. Several times I got to work and found that my account had expired in the middle of the night and I would have to scramble to re-activate.

Finally the dealer suggested that I put an additional $10 prepay credit on my account, and that would cover any brief lapses due to the renewal process. It seemed to work, but I felt that having to deal with a band-aid like that reflected poorly on PP.

All other things being equal, $80/year for cell service is pretty reasonable but, depending upon your usage, there are alternatives. For example, another Verizon MVNO, Selectel Wireless, has a 2000 min/1500 text yearly plan for $75.00. I used them for a year with no issues. They used to offer a $100/year plan with LTE data, don’t know if that’s still available though.

Right now, if you’re an Xfinity customer, I would go as far as to say that it’s impossible to beat Xfinity Wireless’ rates. I have several lines now with unlimited talk & text on Verizon for about $36/yr each.

If you’re not an Xfinity customer and you’re a very light user, Tello bears looking into. I have one line left on Tello. Their PAYG rates start at $10, which gives you up to 333 minutes of talk time, 1000 texts, or 500 MB of 4G LTE data, and as long as you place at least one call every six months, your credits never expire. So far I have one very light user on Tello PAYG for almost a year for $10. That is hard to beat.

If you don’t mind a T-Mobile MVNO, MintSIM is a pretty good value if you need data. They’ll sell you a yearly plan with unlimited minutes, text and data (throttled after 2 GB 4G LTE) for $180/yr.

@fivetalents Thanks! Guess all that time I spent on hold wasn’t wasted after all.

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