My question of the day is how many of you still have landlines. If you do not, do you have just cell phones or another system for calls? What pros and cons have you found if you have given up your landline?
Good morning! A chilly start here but will warm up nicely. Truly beautiful spring fever weather. Another cold front to hit over the weekend so back to the thirties. Bouncy weather!
Our landline had a short or some problem so we gave it up a number of years back. Art does have a landline at the office, a distance from home. We have done okay with cellphones only at home. There is the issue of always keeping them charged up. You can get battery packs to keep charged up, too, in case power goes out, and charging in the car is available. But if ever there were a long term power outage, that could be when a landline would make all the difference.
Art has to pay business price for his phones at the office so it’s expensive. I’d probably be good these days if people had at least one shared party line in the neighborhood/vicinity in case of emergencies.
QOD: We do not still have a landline. When a new culvert was put in by the road folk, the line was cut, though we had it marked. We realized we no longer needed it.
how we deal with it: Husband uses his phone much more than I do and does our family business so, unless it is someone I want to hear from, I give everybody his phone number. How can you best be reached? His number. In part because I do not know most of our family business, in part because I do not have time or interest in that, in part because I am lazy, and in part to let him head off unwanted calls which he is happy to do. I do not have voice mail set up and keep the sound off on my phone so never hear it ring. I do respond to texts.
I have wondered about power outages and do have an old rotary phone which does not require electricity. But with the line cut. So I decided not to worry about it.
Chilly start to the day with the promise of warming!
No landlines for us. It proved to be less reliable than our cell phone coverage. And we are pleased to never have to deal with AT&T! We recently cut ties with Comcast for internet and are happy with StarLink.. it works perfectly even in the midst of the forest! Nj
When I lived in Nashville I only technically even owned a cell phone. It was prepay, $7 a month or something like that; each minute cost a lot, but I kept it only for emergency use, and the amount of money on it rolled over to the next month if I remembered to pay in time (a day or two early); I had collected something like $70 or $80 on it when my husband came into my life, and then one month I forgot to pay early and lost what I had collected, but it no longer mattered since he got me a “real” cell phone as we were preparing to marry. The prepaid one did come in handy when I worked a part-time evening job (five hours a day) for a couple of months each spring, which was also in my busy editing season, because I checked my home voice mail from it each day while on break. But I only ever gave my sister the phone number of the cell, since I had it only for calling out if I needed to.
When I married him in 2011 he told me that he and the kids had gone to cell phone only a few years before, since they were in the swamp and the buried lines were unreliable, losing service for a week or so at a time once or twice a year. But I couldn’t hear well on the cell phone, hated it, and rarely talked on the phone after that.
When we moved here in 2018, I told him I wanted to have landline service again. Technically it isn’t a “landline,” but it goes through our computers, but it’s the phone number I give to people unless I’m going to be out walking. We don’t have smart phones. My husband keeps his cell phone with him in the house, but mine is usually at the other end of the house from me, in my walking clothes, and so I’m more likely to get to the phone in time if people call the landline.
Cell only. I kept my landline for a while but realized it only received junk calls (and I’d fallen into the habit of not even checking those “voicemails”); it also was an extra expense I realized I would be best without.
Haven’t missed it.
The world has changed, the conversion is complete with regard to “phones” and that technology –
We ditched the land line shortly after moving out to our acreage. All around us has sketchy cell service but our place has great coverage. One less bill to pay.
Our pharmacy went to online phone service and I once called and the answering message was for a completely different number. If someone had called and left a message, private information would have gone to the wrong person. Pharmacist was quite angry with how their system wasn’t working well.
Wandering Views 
Good morning to all. Another gray day with snow/rainy drizzle. It is good to see those beautiful blooms.
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Good morning, indeed. A beautiful sunshine day. At least until the sun slides behind the clouds!
mumsee
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My question of the day is how many of you still have landlines. If you do not, do you have just cell phones or another system for calls? What pros and cons have you found if you have given up your landline?
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Good morning! A chilly start here but will warm up nicely. Truly beautiful spring fever weather. Another cold front to hit over the weekend so back to the thirties. Bouncy weather!
Our landline had a short or some problem so we gave it up a number of years back. Art does have a landline at the office, a distance from home. We have done okay with cellphones only at home. There is the issue of always keeping them charged up. You can get battery packs to keep charged up, too, in case power goes out, and charging in the car is available. But if ever there were a long term power outage, that could be when a landline would make all the difference.
Art has to pay business price for his phones at the office so it’s expensive. I’d probably be good these days if people had at least one shared party line in the neighborhood/vicinity in case of emergencies.
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It’d probably be good . . .
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We retain our landline. We mostly get garbage calls, but cell coverage can be spotty and I need a landline when doing phone interviews.
My husband was able to get a great deal, so it’s not a lot of money.
Also, because I leave my cel on silent most of the time, I tell the kids to try the landline if they can’t get me on the cel.
M
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QOD: We do not still have a landline. When a new culvert was put in by the road folk, the line was cut, though we had it marked. We realized we no longer needed it.
how we deal with it: Husband uses his phone much more than I do and does our family business so, unless it is someone I want to hear from, I give everybody his phone number. How can you best be reached? His number. In part because I do not know most of our family business, in part because I do not have time or interest in that, in part because I am lazy, and in part to let him head off unwanted calls which he is happy to do. I do not have voice mail set up and keep the sound off on my phone so never hear it ring. I do respond to texts.
Pros: Husband keeps all fam business to his phone
no scam calls
no need to answer the phone every few minutes
Cons: hmmm, thinking…
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mumsee
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I have wondered about power outages and do have an old rotary phone which does not require electricity. But with the line cut. So I decided not to worry about it.
mumsee
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Chilly start to the day with the promise of warming!
No landlines for us. It proved to be less reliable than our cell phone coverage. And we are pleased to never have to deal with AT&T! We recently cut ties with Comcast for internet and are happy with StarLink.. it works perfectly even in the midst of the forest! Nj
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Had to watch a couple videos to learn the “proper” way to cut romaine lettuce hearts.
That and wild caught Atlantic salmon is dinner.
Mmmmmm…..😋
Aj
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When I lived in Nashville I only technically even owned a cell phone. It was prepay, $7 a month or something like that; each minute cost a lot, but I kept it only for emergency use, and the amount of money on it rolled over to the next month if I remembered to pay in time (a day or two early); I had collected something like $70 or $80 on it when my husband came into my life, and then one month I forgot to pay early and lost what I had collected, but it no longer mattered since he got me a “real” cell phone as we were preparing to marry. The prepaid one did come in handy when I worked a part-time evening job (five hours a day) for a couple of months each spring, which was also in my busy editing season, because I checked my home voice mail from it each day while on break. But I only ever gave my sister the phone number of the cell, since I had it only for calling out if I needed to.
When I married him in 2011 he told me that he and the kids had gone to cell phone only a few years before, since they were in the swamp and the buried lines were unreliable, losing service for a week or so at a time once or twice a year. But I couldn’t hear well on the cell phone, hated it, and rarely talked on the phone after that.
When we moved here in 2018, I told him I wanted to have landline service again. Technically it isn’t a “landline,” but it goes through our computers, but it’s the phone number I give to people unless I’m going to be out walking. We don’t have smart phones. My husband keeps his cell phone with him in the house, but mine is usually at the other end of the house from me, in my walking clothes, and so I’m more likely to get to the phone in time if people call the landline.
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Cell only. I kept my landline for a while but realized it only received junk calls (and I’d fallen into the habit of not even checking those “voicemails”); it also was an extra expense I realized I would be best without.
Haven’t missed it.
The world has changed, the conversion is complete with regard to “phones” and that technology –
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We got rid of our landline sometime after Hubby died.
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We ditched the land line shortly after moving out to our acreage. All around us has sketchy cell service but our place has great coverage. One less bill to pay.
Our pharmacy went to online phone service and I once called and the answering message was for a completely different number. If someone had called and left a message, private information would have gone to the wrong person. Pharmacist was quite angry with how their system wasn’t working well.
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