Tip of the day.

[dodge man]

In regards to people counting on technology. My wife works for a telephone co-op. You know the kind of phone that used to be on the kitchen wall and went "ring ring" instead of playing some kind of ring tone. As many of you know, and probably many of you already have done, people are getting rid of their land lines. My wife has a theory that some day there will be some kind of event that will affect cell phone users. Maybe this is just a large local storm that affects a lot of people, but is still a local event, or maybe some kind of large scale electronic failure, but people will find themselves without cell phones for a extended period of time. Believe it not, a land line phone is one of the most reliable things you can have, its almost always more reliable than your electricity. This is not just a safety issue, but people have come to rely on cell phones for business, transportation, internet service, and many other things.

I'm not trying to sell you on your local phone company, but its something to think about before dumping your land line.

 

[EE_Bota]

I still have my land line, and I am planning on keeping it. I have a cell, and it is kept in my car in case I have a breakdown.

 

[mattoct3003]

Heck I just wish I had cell phone service at my house haha. But, a really really good tip dodge man. I cannot tell you a single time we have ever lost my land line and we are in a hurricane zone.

 

[MoKelly]

Land lines cost an awful lot for the use they get in my house.

MoKelly

 

[dodge man]

Land lines cost an awful lot for the use they get in my house.

MoKelly

Yep, I can't argue with that. Since cell phones have become poplular, I'd say we average less than one call a day on our land line.

 

[mpham]

Plus. Most of the phones sold now need power to work. If the power is out so is the phone. We still have a land line. It only rings with spam calls.

 

[EagleTDL]

After the storms here in N 'Bama in April 2010, nothing worked! But, that's because the poles were down, taking power, phone and cable offline. Cell towers were blown down or damaged... Once the poles were reinstalled, hardline phones were the first thing that came back up. We've always kept an old style phone around, one that gets power from the phone jack as opposed to a handheld rig that requires power to the base unit.

 

[JazzDad]

Giant CME event. (Coronal Mass Ejection) But if it's bad enough to wipe out the cell service, the induction into the land lines would probably also be as destructive. And then there's the power lines, and... Well, let's just say the survivalists shall rule the earth.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Both our phones, land line and cell, get the most traffic from siding salesmen, offers for our non-existent time share and credit card scammers. Thank goodness we have Caller I.D.; so we don't answer "Unavailable", and other similar suspicious I.D.'s.

 

[EE_Bota]

Both our phones, land line and cell, get the most traffic from siding salesmen, offers for our non-existent time share and credit card scammers. Thank goodness we have Caller I.D.; so we don't answer "Unavailable", and other similar suspicious I.D.'s.

It seems like the entire world is worried about getting my credit card interest rate down.
Hello world: I have no credit card debt, so if you will just please leave me the heck alone, I would be so grateful.