Getting a cell phone plan can be easy if you do it right. Cell phone plans these days come with a host of options and features. Choosing the right one can be a dilemma if you don’t know what you are looking for. To keep it simple, we’re going to start by talking about two great plans geared towards minimalist cell phone users.

What do we mean by minimalist users? Well, if you use your monthly data frugally and insist on saving up a boatload of cash through pre-paid plans, then chances are you dig minimalism.

Sometimes too much data can end up going to waste when unused.

Virgin Mobile:  Virgin Mobile offers average users a plan known as the Virgin Mobile Data Love. It comes with 5 GB of monthly data, is pre-paid, and costs an affordable $35. You get unlimited texting features with no cap on the number of text messages you can send. You don’t get charged for messaging to any friends, and you get unlimited minutes for voice calls as well. That’s pretty neat but it doesn’t stop just there.

Verizon:  The Verizon 5 GB plan, which is one of Verizon’s most famous plans to date for the average cell phone user, comes at an affordable rate of $60. For payments made through online transactions, there’s a $5 discount for automatic payments which brings down the bill to a mere $55 per month. Just like the Virgin Mobile Data Love plan, this plan offers users up to 5 GB of monthly data usage. You get unlimited calling minutes and you can send and receive as many text messages as you like for free.

Additionally, Verizon is known to offer the cheapest rates in the market per gigabyte of data. If you’re looking for an affordable postpaid plan, Verizon is the way to go. The plan allows the carryover of data, so if there’s unused data, it will get added to the next month’s data cap and expand upon it. This can be useful if you don’t use much data and you want to save your data and use it when needed. You can drop data charges even further by activating the safety mode on your phone which will drop the speed down to 2G level. This can help you save more data and reduce your monthly costs. The $5 discount a month in their plan applies to automated, paper-based billing. It is applicable only if you pay via debit card or by using a checking account online.