[jzunic]

It depends on what you use it for.

We hardly use a cell phone, so we bought one of the pay-per-use ones and pay about $10/month to maintain it - we use it maybe once a day on our way home from work. But we never use it to make local or long distance calls - we pay about $50 a month for unlimited local/long distance, including Canada, since most of our family and friends are in Canada. So that works about to about $60 for phone services.

However, if you use your cell for your local and long distance calls, and hardly use your land line, it may be worth it to keep the cells and cut down the land line service. I know more and more people are doing that, since they use rarely their land line.

I like having a cell for emergencies, and also to touch base with my DH, since we only have one car and sometimes need to find out where the other is, etc. But I don't use it for personal calls, and try to minimize my time on it since I'm paying by the minute. But this plan works well for us.

HTH!