Today’s money byte tip will help you save about $72 a year on your phone bill. While that might not seem like a whole heckuva lot of money it might be the price of a monthly phone bill and could definitely be better used in your pocket rather than the phone company’s.

Save Money On Your Phone Bill

Besides shopping around for a good long distance plan and only using features and services that you need, here’s a way to save a lot of money each month:

Cancel your voicemail.

But…but voicemail is vital, isn’t it?  Guess what? The average voicemail service from the phone company is abut $6 a month.  You can buy an answering machine today that has all the same features and benefits as the phone company for a one time fee which is likely less than $20.00. You can still check your messages remotely and screen your calls. In fact, you can screen them aloud and decide to pick up the call easier with an old fashioned answering machine than you can with voicemail!  The phone company is already getting enough of your hard earned money so decide to claw some of it back!