<p>We have pay-as-you-go phones from AT&T. Minutes cost $100/year. We do most communications via email and instant messaging.</p>
<p>Im interested in $100 a year 
but the cheapest go phone plan I saw from ATT was $30 a month for 200 minutes</p>
<p>I expected D to pay for all her personal expenses which she did with her workstudy job.
We covered books or at least I helped her find the books she needed through Powells & set up an account at her school bookstore- because she was hesitant about spending money even for books she went without a very expensive book and flunked the final.</p>
<p>Families that even are considering giving college students an allowance, have more choices, some of us don’t have that choice- but I also think some of us have found that even though they make some mistakes, by giving them more responsibility around their spending rather than less, helps with living on their own after college.</p>
<p>We did get a family cell phone plan when she was a junior in college as even though it is Verizon which is one of the more expensive, it has good service- no dropped calls even if behind the times phones.
She is also still on the family plan as then we can call her anytime.
( But we pay more than $100 a month let alone a year- including all the stupid taxes anyway)</p>