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Envirophone

Posted by Stacy on Saturday, May 03, 2008 9:25 PM

Envirophone, it is a tricky word to pronounce (for some of us) and it is a tricky word to spell (for some of us), but it is not a tricky business. Your old mobile phone + cleaning up the environment = Envirophone. And this organization will pay you for your old mobile phones. This is without a doubt a win/win situation. I know I switch phones every time I have to renew an old contract with a carrier or if I switch to different carrier. There are usually those 'offers you cannot refuse' or that deal of the month that entices you to purchase a new phone at a discount. Sometimes the offer may have enough rebates that it feels like they are even giving you a new phone. No matter if you pay a little for the new one or if you get it virtually for free, you still have your old phone to deal with. And if you are a member of a family that has phones for each family member, you could have four or five or six old phones to get rid of every time you change. Then there are those of us who have that extremely spoiled child that wants that new and improved and too cute for words new hot pink phone that turns to passionate purple or peacock feather blue depending on the weather or the child's mood (if that phone is not out there at the moment, it will be shortly). "Oh, Mom, it is absolutely THE phone. Everyone that is anyone has that cool new color mood flex phone. And I do have a birthday coming up…" or "I did get a fabulous grade in my nuclear underwater grape peeling class…" or "Fine, I'll just ask Grammy then". Oh, you have one of those too? Well, whatever the reason, you may just find yourself with a box half full of older model used phones. So, what are you going to do with them? Who in the world wants the things? It sickens me to envision them, together with all of the phones from everyone else who has been storing them, just sitting in a land fill somewhere, someplace waiting to see if they will eventually decay. Well, they won't. Or worse yet, to imagine them being incinerated and further polluting the air. Why not give Envirophone a chance. What do you have to lose except, uh, well, uh, actually NOTHING. You have nothing to lose. I'll do it if you will.