Mobile phone SMS text messages can quite easily add up once you start sending a few, and unless you have a mobile phone that includes plenty of free text messages then you can easily be spending lots of money on text messages. Text messages range in price between the different mobile network operators, but on average cost about 10-12p for each one you send.

There are a few things you can do to reduce how much you spend on text messages:-

• Get a mobile phone contract that gives you plenty of text messages included, such as buying from the O2 website as they have deals with upto 1000 text messages a month.
• Sign up with Red Alertz, they allow you to send 60 free SMS text message each month online.
• Learn how to use txt tlk (text talk). Basically to save on the number of characters you need to write a message and be able to fit more into it without having to send another one use text message abbreviations, such as ones we have listed below