Glamour staffers at varying stages of their lives and careers to share one of the that has served them well. When my family and I moved to New York from the UK in 2019, I wasn’t able to sign up for an annual cell phone contract. (When you move internationally, you don’t have a credit history in your new country.
I didn’t think of that ahead of time!) I still needed a cell phone—and didn’t want to use my UK number, which would have been expensive—so I opted for a pre-paid cell phone plan, which was less expensive than the long-term phone contracts I had looked into.
Initially, I assumed that I would change to a big carrier eventually, but I realized I loved knowing exactly what my phone bill was every month.
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