letting go of the landline pro and con? - Page 3

[ItsAllGood]

I like my landline!! I have only and emergency cell phone - five dollars per month.
I have a corded landline! cordless are not good.
I am trying to figure out how to lower the cost of my landline though. I need long distance though. Any suggestions??

[Auroara Bobcat]

Originally Posted by cschick

Your landline works if your electricity is out? That never seemed to be the case around here, it always seemed if the electricity was out, the landline phone service was dead as a doornail too. And during my childhood at least, storms took out phone service even more often than they took down electricity. In the year prior to us dumping landline service (in 1999) I recall our landline being down due to storms several times.

Yep the phone line still works if the power is out, you need to have a cord phone not a cordless phone (because they use electricity.)

[A&A]

My landline is much more comfortable to hold against my ear. So I talk on that, rather than my cell, when I can.

[carfreemama]

Dd is 6 and is just starting to really want to talk on the phone. I don't know how I'd teach dd about "phone etiquette" on a cell, though I'm not sure why it's different. Are you okay with your kids using cells on a regular basis? I would love to cut the land line, but I don't because of dd. Then again, maybe land lines will be a thing of the past by the time she's a few years older, anyway.

[sweetjasmine]

I like to have a backup in case of storms since we live in Tornado Alley which is why my husband and I keep our landline in addition to our cell phones. Also, I don't like giving out my cell number to every company/business, whatever, etc. My cell is for friends and family only.

ETA: My daughter feels the same way and keeps the bare bones landline along with her and her husband's cells.

[mtm]

Make sure the cell quality is good before you drop your landline. A friend of mine is cell only and its okay when she's out and about but from her house the quality is iffy. Sometimes I can't hear her, sometimes there's an echo, and she's tried a few different phones with no improvement.

[TheGirls]

Originally Posted by carfreemama

Dd is 6 and is just starting to really want to talk on the phone. I don't know how I'd teach dd about "phone etiquette" on a cell, though I'm not sure why it's different. Are you okay with your kids using cells on a regular basis? I would love to cut the land line, but I don't because of dd. Then again, maybe land lines will be a thing of the past by the time she's a few years older, anyway.

I'm 29 and have rarely in my adult life had cause to use a land line. I tend to assume that landline use skills are not going to be critical for my kids.

[tallulahma]

we just dropped our landline and I hate not having one. so much so that we are probably going to add one here soon

i was raised to have one just for emergency purposes. everyone always thought I was crazy-

then when the "blackout of 2003" happened- allllll my friends showed up at my house to call family because no ones cell phones worked for two days.

i was ALSO the only 22 year old with a transistor radio. lol. I was raised to be prepared :P