Yay for Windstream and DirecTV

We finally got things figured out with internet and cable.  Yay!  We still have no extra money for the time being, but this will help save us some money.  We signed up for Windstream on-line and although it is a bit slower it is cheaper.  Plus they include a home phone line with unlimited long distance all for the same price.  Which for me is fantastic, because all my family is out of state.  No more worrying about going over my cell minutes!  At first John wasn’t sure he wanted to sign up with Windstream, but after a glowing recommendation from our friends we decided to go with them.  We will have our new home phone (we haven’t had one in YEARS) and INTERNET installed on Monday (8/13)!!!  We are wicked excited!

We had planned on going without cable for a while to save the extra money, but John decided we really need it.  You know, with baseball season winding down soon and football season starting.  We tried to go with Dish Network since they were having a promotion with Windstream, but because our credit is bad, they wanted over $300 up front.  Well that wasn’t going to happen.  So I called up DirecTV to see if they could offer us something better.  I am sooooo glad I did!  We had DirecTV for a couple of years when we lived up near Omaha and had to get rid of it when we moved.  We had a great experience with them and were very disappointed when we had to stop our service.  Anyways, DirecTV was able to offer us (apparently because “we were such great customers”) the current promotional rate for the first year that they are offering to new subscribers, 3 months free of more movie channels than we could possibly need, a free HD DVR, and what John is most excited about, NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL Sunday Ticket Max for free for the coming football season.  All this and only $20 down for shipping costs (awesome!)  Plus the DVR will hold A LOT more programming than our current one does. 

Update:  I wrote several posts while our internet it down (yay me!) and I'm glad I did.  Our install for both internet and DirecTV were scheduled on the same day and went very smoothly.  We had to have Windstream come back out the following day because our phone jack wasn't working properly.  But all in all it went very well.  We are very happy to have internet and tv back.  With DirecTV we now have Disney Jr, and I am loving it!  There is usually something cute on for the kiddos.  Things are starting to look up again, let's just hope it stays that way.