Is it possible to recieve imessages without sending them?

My phone plan has unlimited texting but an extremely finite amount of data, so to save money I prefer to send and recieve sms text messages rather than imessages. Initially I had imessages completely turned off, but since I couldn't recieve imessages people thought that I was ignoring them when I wasn't. I just never got there imessage. (Why the stupid imessage system wouldn't change the message to sms or at least inform the sender that the message couldn't be recieved is annoying and a whole other problem, but I digress.) So I turned my imessages back on, but the dilemma of not wanting to waste my data by sending imessages still remains, and now every text I start wants to send as an imessage. So I ask my question: Is it possible to recieve imessages without sending them?
On a related note, is it also possible to retrieve imessages that were sent to, but you never recieved because you had imessages turned off?
Thanks! I really appreciate your help.

Does anyone no anything about this? Thanks!

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