Phone cards

I really miss my boyfriend, and of course, my family. However, with the pain that phone cards are, I barely talk to them. They were super expensive in Scandinavia, so my boyfriend thinks I am mad at him. With most phone cards, they only work in one country, and in certain phones. As I am currently lacking a phone card, I need to buy one, talk to the vendor and find out which phones it can work in and how many minutes I get out of it, and then call my worried boyfriend. It works out, but it is a real pain. Do yourself a favor and never promise any calls back home. It gets way too expensive. I wish I had a cell phone now.