LAND Lines
08-07-2011, 06:04 AM
#43
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Rochester New York
Posts: 180
LOL, I must be a real odd ball!
I use my land line all the time. I do have portable phones so I can take outside to garden.
I have a cell to use in emergency, in the car, (usually forgotten at home anyway or dead in my purse). Personally I do not want to be on my cell.
If I am out I'm out. Leave a message and when I get home I will call you back.
Oh well, to each their own.
Dawn
I use my land line all the time. I do have portable phones so I can take outside to garden.
I have a cell to use in emergency, in the car, (usually forgotten at home anyway or dead in my purse). Personally I do not want to be on my cell.
If I am out I'm out. Leave a message and when I get home I will call you back.
Oh well, to each their own.
Dawn
08-07-2011, 06:09 AM
#44
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 451
I still have my land line because it depends on where you live . I live in the country and if I have to call on my cell I loose a call here and there. I prefer to be called on my land line if it is just for talking to a friend for a longer period than a business call. I love my cell when the weather is good.
08-07-2011, 06:45 AM
#48
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,761
Originally Posted by JulieR
We are keeping ours.
1. Our security system and DSL use it.
2. Our house is too large for us to hear our cell phones from anywhere, and I am not carrying the phone around in my own house.
3. We live right around the corner from FEMA and smack in between Camp David and Site R, so during a national event it is unlikely we will have cell service.
4. In an event like 9/11 we WON'T have cell service, period; even when land lines are spotty they are better than nothing.
5. We can recharge our cell phones in the car if we have to, but it is nice knowing we can continue to use our land line phones indefinitely if the power is out.
We changed over most of our house phones to 1950's style rotary phones for some of these reasons.
1. Our security system and DSL use it.
2. Our house is too large for us to hear our cell phones from anywhere, and I am not carrying the phone around in my own house.
3. We live right around the corner from FEMA and smack in between Camp David and Site R, so during a national event it is unlikely we will have cell service.
4. In an event like 9/11 we WON'T have cell service, period; even when land lines are spotty they are better than nothing.
5. We can recharge our cell phones in the car if we have to, but it is nice knowing we can continue to use our land line phones indefinitely if the power is out.
We changed over most of our house phones to 1950's style rotary phones for some of these reasons.
08-07-2011, 06:49 AM
#49
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chili, New York (Rochester)
Posts: 1,147
Oh good, a chance for me to vent. Yes, I miss my land line. My husband changed us from Frontier over to Time Warner for the package deal he had to have to reduce the phone bill by $40 a month. Problem is that he never told me. That made me furious because we lost the land line. My parents are in their mid-90s and only have a land line and if the electricity goes out, I can stay in contact with them. They just wouldn't think to call my cell phone. Besides that, when we got a long-distance call, there were three rings, now it is just like any call with only one ring, so when it rings, I run in the house to see who it is. Before I could figure it would be a telemarketer; now I can't tell.
In answer to your question, I HATE IT. I hate my cell phone because I do NOT want to be reached in my car. We lived without this communication for years and I'd go back in a minute, but my husband can't, or won't, probbly because it would be too expensive to go back.
In answer to your question, I HATE IT. I hate my cell phone because I do NOT want to be reached in my car. We lived without this communication for years and I'd go back in a minute, but my husband can't, or won't, probbly because it would be too expensive to go back.
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