So, I don’t have my very own cellphone, but my wife recently got one. We’ve been trying to keep good track of her minutes so we don’t get charged tons of extra money. During this careful attention to minutes I realized something.

You know all those automated instructions that nearly everyone has on their voice mail, “To leave a message press “1”…” My thought is that the phone companies do that so that it takes over one minute to leave a message. They double your minutes usage right there!

Besides the fact that rarely does anyone do anything besides leave a message, those who want to do the other things usually know how to.

So, To all my friends and family, take a minute this weekend and go through the complicated admin menus on your phone and figure out how to take off the instructions on your voicemail message. We have sprint and it wasn’t too hard.

That’s my two cents.

And do me a favor and post what cell phone company you use and what steps you took to get rid of that annoying message.