To have just shouted at (D)H for this....

[MrBloomsNursery]

DH told me he only had 1 month left on his mobile phone contract. I don't keep track of it, so believed him. He's paying £35 a month.

So 5 days ago he goes and takes out a new contract with Three, for an iPhone paying £35 a month. So effectively He would have paid £70 for one month. I told him he was wasting money, but then it was only 1 month.

So just now, My DDDH has phoned me (he's working late) and mentioned that T-mobile won't let him break the contract without paying £200....So he tells them he'd rather carry on paying £35 a month until the contract ends...Now here's the good part: His contract doesn't end until MARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .

He's got a bloody xperia and an iPhone to pay for now until MARCH at £70 a month!!!!!.

We're having a baby at the end of the year!! We have expenses. I'm not working. We have bloody bills and did I mention: WE'RE HAVING A BABY?!!!!!

Where the hell is his head? I am so angry right now I'm getting braxton hicks and I don't know what to do. What a bloody complete idiot. GRRRRRRR .

Oooooh, YANBU. I feel your pain.

If it would make you feel better, my DP has gone out and spunked 5k on a motorbike I knew nothing about till the chuffer was delivered.

Twice...

He's an idiot but in fairness those phone companies know what they're at!

MissVeryDead are you called that because you are a single lady with a very dead ex-partner??? Because if not you are a saint!

5K on a secret motorbike? TWICE?

Can't he back out of the new contract if it's under 14 days?

Could he sell his old phone on ebay and see what he can get for it. Is it a decent phone?

He may be able to downgrade his contract with T-Mobile to a sim only though, which will be very little each month.

Probably safest if you put a deep voice on and sort it out, as he sounds a bit too bloody gormless

Wow that would really piss me off! Is he quite young?

He can take the phone back, its less than 7 days, there is some rule about that with phone contracts - google, cant type just painted nails soz

Miss You are a very very strong woman to have put up with that TWICE! Why do some men (like my H) or even women (I don't know!) do things like this? I just don't get it...It's not like my belly is invisible. There is a constant reminder in his face everyday that there will another mouth to feed in our family soon.

i thin C4ro might be right.

If not, insist on either one of his flash phones for yourself or £70 a momth "fuck you" money that you can spend on what you like! Oh, and kill him, obviously.

If it's only 5days, then he can just give back the iphone and cancel the contract with three.

£200 ?! What?! This doesn't sound right... I would phone and seriously pressure the company

C4ro I concur
If you start like this you'll end up like me....
(see relationships)

Get him to take it back tomorrow - he will have had a 7 day cooling off period.

He is a mega numpty. Do you have a PAYG phone? Could you use his phone instead?

I would tell him the iphone is his Christmas present.

c4ro and batty YES!! Excellent. Okay..when he gets home that iPhone is being packed up and he can take it back to the shop tomorrow. I just hope I have the strength to look him in the eyes when he gets home...

Oh, and he can apologise and be very nice to you tonight-thinking bath run, foot massage etc:)

Angelico The first time was bad enough, but the second time his bastard mates HID IT for him, like a schoolboy hiding porn.

Seriously, he is shite with money. I made him sell the first one, but the 600f is in the garage right now, hopefully feeling the burning resentment and loathing which I direct at it every second of every day....

Aaaaaah.

Batty you are totally right, but I would like to be a fly on the wall when that conversation took place! OP- do you think he'd take it back?

If he has been using the phone, will that option not be void?

lynette I pay £10 a month for a crappy sony ericcsson. I don't get the hype over gadgets. He's not young either sir....I don't know what's wrong with him :(

@ Squeaky - I don't think so, otherwise how can you know whether or not you like the phone? I'm pretty sure the 7 day thing is no-questions-asked

MrBloom I have no idea. It's really upsetting, the degree of thoughtlessness/selfishness really.

I think there's a certain amount of "It's my money, I'll spend it how I like" going on as well as "poor me, I'm a daddy now and I get nooooo love and noooo attention... sniff"

Bloody man children.

No, you can still return

O2 tried to get me to do it when I absconded to Orange, they knew all the rules

You may as well slice his bollocks off but if money is tight needs must eh?

Break the contract with the 14 day grace period or sell the other phone on eBay.

Can he reduce the old contract to the cheapest tariff available or can you use the old read new phone. iPhones are brill [hgrin]

What a knob

miss I don't know if he will - he better, or I won't ever talk to him again. I can't believe I am waiting for Christmas sales (cutting it really fine with EDD) to buy new babygrows!!! That's how much I am thinking about saving money!! And he's gone off buying a new bloody phone....The more I think about it the more pissed off I'm getting!!!!