To get rid of my old email and landline telephone.
In November of 2015 I finally joined the smart phone generation. Before then, I'd had a cell phone for a dozen years that I only used to dial out when I needed directions to a client, or some such. I didn't want to be one of those people who was always on their phone.
But I made the plunge three years ago, and while I'm still not a person who is always on my phone, and certainly not texting, I was impressed by the overall ease of using my smart phone. My intent at that time was, within a few months, to get rid of my landline, which cost $90 a month. I also wanted to use a more professional email for my business, rather than the Earthlink account I'd had since 1996. So, I set up a gmail account with my business name, and it wasn't too much trouble to get my clients using the new address. But I baulked about getting rid of the landline completely, even though I mostly got sales calls on it. It wasn't that clients were calling my mostly on my cell -- only that clients pretty much didn't call me at all. We communicated some 90% via email.
It had also bothered me for a long time that my fandom activities took place with my personal email, and in 2013 I'd set up a gmail account under the Charlotte Frost name. But I never made the transition, because I kept thinking about all the places -- including zines -- that had my Earthlink email for feedback, and I didn't want to miss any feedback. Plus, it would be a big undertaking to change my email on all my stories and various fanfic websites. So, I kept the Earthlink account for personal and fandom email.
But finally the time has come. I really don't get much feedback in direct email, so I can risk shutting down my Earthlink account and use the Charlotte Frost gmail account that has been sitting dormant for five years. I also set up yet another gmail account -- separate from biz and Charlotte Frost -- for everyday personal communications. This morning, after being a customer 25 years, I canceled my Earthlink account as of the end of this month.
Earlier this week, I also finally canceled my landline telephone. I've contacted most clients and personal associates who need to know such.
Notifying the dozens of websites where I have a logon under my Earthlink address will be a much more labor intensive process, but in the wonderful ease of December, I've got an organized way of going about that.
And I do wish I'd done all this three years ago, rather than continue to pay the combined $115 every month for the combined email and phone services that I wanted to get rid of.
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