How do they do it?

As part of our preparation to relocate, and with a view to reducing our living expenses, we've discussed the option of replacing our home phone with 2 cell phones.  When your home phone rings as little as ours does, you don't really need to have one.  And it seems when it does ring, more often than not, it's a telemarketer (so much for getting on that no-call list, eh?).  Just by the sheer numbers of cell phones out there, you would think it would be inexpensive enough....every kid I see in the street/mall/school is carrying one.  Well, not really carrying....they are either holding them up to their ears and talking, or they are texting incessantly while they walk.  BTW, who says young people aren't multi-taskers??  They can to walk and talk at the same time!  Anyway, I've just assumed that because so many young people are using them, they must be an economical option...the companies must be giving them away!!!  Yeah, yeah, I know, they do give the phones away, but then there are the plans, contracts, etc. etc.  NOT CHEAP!  Maybe one of you readers can enlighten me...cause every one I've researched is incredibly expensive.   I mean really, I thought those "disposable phones" would be reasonable enough...god knows every criminal in town uses them...but then, they generally don't have to watch their pennies like I would....we all know that crime DOES pay....and well!   So anyway, if anybody out there knows of a good cell phone plan for 2 old pensioners on a fixed income, let me know.

WHAT I LEARNED TODAY:  This current gas pricing situation is killing me.  Now that we've got our cruise finalized (and at a time when the Canadian $$ was doing quite well against the US), it's now time to get our flights in order.  I had some flights picked out and was getting ready to book them, when I said I'd wait until Wednesday as that's the day Air Canada announces it's weekly seat sales.  You never know, right... well worth the days wait if the price happens to drop.  Not only did the flights not go down on Wednesday....they went up.  And then on the weekend, the particular flights that I had picked out went up again.  And there's no reason for it, considering one of the legs had not one seat sold on the plane.  And the fare itself didn't go up, but the taxes and surcharges went up.  That's got to be directly related to the recent increase in fuel prices.  That, or else they are raising the prices to drop them again in a week or two and make it seem like it's a big sale, when in fact, it's just being lowered down to where it was previously.   And yes, I do think Air Canada would do such a thing!!  Don't you??