MommyThrice Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I'm almost ready to take the plunge. I'm paying $30/month for my land-line. I can add one more cell phone to my family plan for $10/month AND keep my existing phone number. Is there a good reason I shouldn't do this? Four of the five of us already have cell phones. My youngest, 14 yo, doesn't have a phone yet. I could get the 5th line for him, but then we would just be dropping our house phone. Or the 5th line could be the house phone, for now, and we could gradually switch all house phone calls over to my or husband's cell phone, then give the phone to the youngest. I'm just trying to think this through. BTW, land-line is VoIP, so I'm not giving up the dependability of a real, old-fashioned land-line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We haven't had a land line of any sort in over ten years, and haven't missed it even once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We gave up a land line years ago. We have a cell phone for the house/children. I actually like it better. We can take the "house" phone with us when we are in a situation where we might be separated from the children (like in a mall). The only think I sort of miss is the ability to send a fax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommyThrice Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 So, Lara, do you leave the phone in the house for the kids when you are away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We dropped ours ages ago. Before the kids had cell phones (they're teens now), we used a computer phone through Magic Jack as our "home" number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in Appalachia Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We got an Ooma over 2 years ago, and we're happy with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelotmom Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We keep it primarily because DSL is the best internet option around here, and partially because cell service is unreliable where we are (but we very rarely use the landline for that, especially since we don't have long distance). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemiSweet Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We haven't had a landline in years. DS10 has his own smart phone and dd will have one when she turns 10 (assuming she is responsible like her brother, she has a long way to go though :001_rolleyes: ). I do not let the children stray far from me or home alone until they're 10 and responsible. I have not missed not having a landline at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 No land line in at least 5 years. I wouldn't put on in if they paid me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexigail Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We haven't had one for a long time. Right now, our kids are little so we do make sure they know how to use the cell phone in case of an emergency. I don't miss it at all. If we were getting cable I might consider it, but probably not. Right now we watch everything online and it saves us a lot of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann.without.an.e Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 no land line here in years When I am away the kids text me using textfree on my ipad or DS's ipod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Ditched ours years ago. Kids have cell phone for when home alone. And we live a block away from police and emergency services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We have a magic jack for the land line. That is the number I give out to people I have no interest in actually speaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelAR05 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 No land line here for the last 9 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanvan Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We finally got rid of ours in July. It has been blissfully quiet. I never get telemarketers now. Dh requested not to have our calls forwarded. Ds and I FaceTime using his iPod if I am away from home, though I suspect he will have his own phone at some point in the near future. Dd does not stay home alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRG Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We gave ours up, too. The only calls we ever received were telemarketers. All of us except the 3 year old ;) have a cell phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 So, Lara, do you leave the phone in the house for the kids when you are away? Yes, I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilma Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We pay $3/month for a VOIP thing -- so we have a home telephone number and our regular phones at home work. Ours is through Ooma, and I wouldn't want to give it up. I prefer to have a collective phone number for the family, especially as we have some really little kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I just got rid of our cable phone last week. Saves me $52 a month, and my cell gets better reception than it did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto10blessings Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I'm almost ready to take the plunge. I'm paying $30/month for my land-line. I can add one more cell phone to my family plan for $10/month AND keep my existing phone number. Is there a good reason I shouldn't do this? Four of the five of us already have cell phones. My youngest, 14 yo, doesn't have a phone yet. I could get the 5th line for him, but then we would just be dropping our house phone. Or the 5th line could be the house phone, for now, and we could gradually switch all house phone calls over to my or husband's cell phone, then give the phone to the youngest. I'm just trying to think this through. BTW, land-line is VoIP, so I'm not giving up the dependability of a real, old-fashioned land-line. We are planning on getting rid of the land line and adding a "home line" into our at&t wireless plan. $10 extra a month and you share minutes with the other phones in your plan. Comes with voicemail, caller ID, etc. right now we are paying $30 for the bare minimum phone plan- no caller ID, voicemail, long distance. I just want to have something for emergencies. We don't use the land line for anything right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We did 8 years ago. We moved into a new area and the people who hook up phone lines were on strike. It was going to take 3 to 6 weeks before they could hook me up. Even then the time estimate of when they would arrive was sometime between 8am and 8pm. We got phone through the internet and haven't had a typical phone line since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommyThrice Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Sounds like an easy decision. My middle son wants to buy his own personal cell phone now, so that even solved the problem of the extra device. Thanks for the input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We got rid of our land-line several years ago. We don't regret it at all. We just use our cell phones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I'm not a very high tech person--after seven years, I *think* I can finally turn on the tv by myself. We ditched our landline two years ago. We've never regretted it. We still have DSL internet and cable tv through the phone company. We got a cheap phone plan for our youngest child so we'd all have phones. Dh and I have one cell carrier; dd and ds have another. Our internet is a third provider. I like this as a backup, because it protects us if one cell carrier were to go down for bad weather or natural (or unnatural) disaster. Even for minor outages--with the bitter cold weather this week, our internet went down twice. That's highly unusual, but we still had our cell phones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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