I must be an albatross.
Here it is, 2016, and I am the only one I know with a land line
phone. Everyone else just uses cell
phones. Or do they call them wireless
phones now? I don’t know. I’m not in the
loop. When I think about it, I don’t
even know why I still have a home phone.
I only get calls from telemarketers on it so it has reached the point
where I don’t even attempt to answer it when it rings. The only legitimate reason for having it is
for the Call Canada Plan. It is relatively
cheap and gives me unlimited calling to Canada. It came in handy when my
parents were alive but now that they have both passed I just have my sister
left in Canada and we usually Skype or text.
So why keep the phone? True,
distant relatives only know that number to call. And it would be a pain to change the number
for everywhere from work to my daughter’s school to my cell. I do use the land line when my old cell phone
stops working right. But are those
enough reasons to keep the phone? It all
comes down to the cable/internet/phone company.
They bundle everything to give you savings. The problem is, if you want one thing, you
have to buy another to get it. It’s kind
of like options on a car. If you want
the sunroof, you have to get the leather seats along with it. (Ouch! Hot in the
summer.) If you want the discount on the
high speed internet, you need to buy the land line. It’s one of those evil genius things. At least I don’t have dial up internet these
days. Remember how slow that was? That was in the days before unlimited minutes
on your cell phone so having a land line made sense but it was always in use by
your internet. Now you don’t even need to
be in the same room as your computer to get on line. So I return to the question I started
with. Should I get rid of my land
line? Presented with all the
information, the answer is yes. That
being said, my actions say no. I am
locked into a 1 year contract with my cable company where the discounts basically
make it free. So I can’t cancel. In a year I will take it up again. Like I said…evil genius.
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