TracFone can keep you in touch

My husband and I use our cell phone as our regular land line. So now that 3 of our children are Abel to stay at home by themselves we decided to get a prepaid phone to leave here with them so that we can get ahold of them and vice a versa.We decided to go with an TracFone.I purchased this particular one at Fred Meyers and paid 14.99 for the phone.I bought and 120 minuet airtime card to put on it which was 29.99.If all the minuets are not used they carry over to the next month and you use 1 "unit" for every minuet that you talk on the phone.We had previous experience with TracFone and really liked it.It is a great way to go if you don not want to have 2 contracts with your Carrier like us.The phones that TracFone offers seem to be good and durable.The last one that we had with held a lot of abuse from my husband so we figured that it would do well for the kids!