Friends and Family Plans!

LOL. I love this topic.

• We share our netflix password with my sister and parents.
• I use our parents' cable login to get disney junior, FX and ESPN, and for a discount on our verizon plan.
• My mom shares a t-mobile plan with my sister so they can split a seniors plan (2 lines unlimited for $60 if you're over 55).

We're collectively saving hundreds a month, in exchange for the massive headache of managing it. For example, last month I ordered a new cell phone for my wife and I had to conference in my dad to answer security questions.

We don't always get along, but we're all extremely cheap, so it hasn't been an issue so far.

I mooch my cell phone plan from my FIL because the business pays for himself and my husband, and I just piggyback on it. It works in our favor because he leaves my husband in charge of selecting the plan.

My FIL bears a striking resemblance (attitude, not physical) to Larry David and so he feuds with the various utilities and would stop service when he gets fed up with whatever, but H has managed to avert any attempts to switch us all to a flip phone tracphone. He did “upgrade” himself from an iPhone to the shittiest cheapest of Android phones he could get at the time and he’s always fighting with it. Every time he asks for tech support from one of us the answer is to throw that POS out and get a new iPhone.

I think the business also pays for my Amazon Prime, which is handy.

My mom was on our phone plan until she and her fiance combined theirs. She uses so little data, it's like watching Netflix in the grocery checkout doesn't even occur to her as a possibility.

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My soon to be ex husband and I share cell phone, Netflix, AARP (free donut at DD, baby!) and Amazon Prime plans. We're actually still dating, but even if we weren't we'd probably still share. We still have a joint account that we plan on keeping open with some minimal cash to cover the shared plans.

Yes, it can absolutely go wrong. Whoever has the login info for the cell provider's website can do anything from view the call/text number history to cancel a phone. Make sure you trust the person not to do that.

I also have my parents' Consumer Reports login info, but no real issues there.

My whole family (mom, dad, me, sister) is on the family plan for our cell phones. I am on my sister's bf's netflix, and I pay for hulu and HBO. My mom is on my cousin's amazon prime, and I use it every once in a while.

Not really awkward, but when I broke up with my long time ex, I gave up all my streaming services. He said it was more than okay for me to still use them, but it felt weird. So I was looking at buying it for myself, but then ended up trading my sister's BF my HBO password for their netflix. The only messy thing is remembering who has your passwords so that if you need to password reset, you tell the right people ahha. Or just wait for people to ask.

Just gave my new BF my hulu password so we can watch shows on his tv. Things are getting serious LOL

Was trying to do this as a sign of co-operation and peaceful co-parenting.

But until the divorce is final I'm not sharing anything. In fact last week I split the phone numbers because the account was in her name and I don't want her to see what numbers I'm texting and calling (she recently started complaining about being "tricked" into filing for divorce, so spider senses are doing some major twitching).

I'm all for frugality but peace of mind from an occasionally batshit crazy STBX is priceless.

My SO and I share Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify. We also made a Netflix user profile for a friend so she can watch Orange is The New Black. Never been any issues.

I'm currently on a family cell plan with my parents and brother. It used to be under my name because my employee discount was the best one. Now my dad has the better discount so it's all under his name.

I have Netflix and Hulu and share it with my family. My brother is supposed to be getting Spotify Premium and sharing it with the rest of us. All of us have our own Amazon Prime.

I figure it all balances out and it's much cheaper than each of us paying for each service and it's much cheaper to have us on a family plan than individual ones (and it's only about $40 more for my brother and I to be on the plan with my parents).

Bing rewards covers Hulu Swapped Hulu access for Netflix access Amazon prime split with my sister Spotify split with coworkers - took advantage of capital one’s 50% back as statement credit until April 2018 so it’s under $2 a month. YouTube Red free trial through multiple family members accounts currently (mostly for Chinese drama and tv shows)

And I think that sums it up.

I am not sure I understand the question, do you mean with people you don't live with? If so, I don't have any shared plan. I think I created Groupon-like accounts for them and used them myself a couple times. Tiny savings. No issues. Oh and apparently, I might have to share some of my driver licence points with my dad soon, which I think might be because he gave too many of his to my mom. Very advantageous for him. Hopefully no issues.

If you mean with people you live with, I don't think phone family plans are a thing here and my boyfriend and I don't have Netflix or Amazon prime, but we share Internet, computers and the games on it (like Steam accounts and whatnot), paypal account and probably similar stuff I'm not thinking about right now. Yes, it's cheaper. No, I don't think it could go wrong or get awkward for us. We have occasionally shared public transportation passes, which is a pain-in-the-ass but we are cheap so... We sort-of shared a cell phone for a while too, which was fine since we mostly used it the same as a landline anyway (mine had no coverage in our appartment).