Yeah Open Office is just like Microsoft Office only free, you should be able to google it!

We don't have a home phone either, we were looking at getting one of those...internet phone things because my aunt and uncle have saved hundreds with theirs, but because this is a brand new house we found out DHA expected us to foot the $300 bill for getting assigned a number and stuff and we were like...F that.

So many people don't have home phones these days, the only time I've found it annoying is when places are like "we need a landline number" and I'm like "Well, unless you want to call my parents in Brisbane, you can't have one because we don't have one" and they get ****ty but will usually take two mobile numbers. And then we just have a $30/month internet plan and when it runs out, it runs out.

Also being on the same phone provider as as many of your friends and family as you can helps a lot. We're with Virgin, and then our parents just have prepaid sims that we call them for free on, that way we can be on the lowest cap plan and save money.