Hmm. This isn’t so surprising to me. I got rid of my home phone back in 2004.
How about you? Do you still have one? If so, why? If not, when did you get rid of it and why?
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@ChippySuave Makes sense. Do you still have one now?
At the time I got rid of mine, I was driving to work in a town 1 & 1/2 hours away, so I was gone all during the week. I got tired of coming home to a zillion telemarketing calls on my answering machine.
@TheRealDelia We do still have one though honestly, we don't actively use it. I think it's been at least a decade since anyone has answered a call on it. LOL
Same about the answering machine. it's been full for years. I don't see the point in clearing it. Anyone who we want to talk to knows to call the cell numbers.
The land line is just an in case kind of thing.
What kind of thing would that be? Just wondering.
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@TheRealDelia we got rid of ours long ago. The only incoming calls were telemarketers. Everyone we know calls us on our cell phones.
My Gen Zs only know about these things when my spouse and I laugh about the good old days of now-obsolete items like answering machines.
@TheRealDelia Yup. Still have one. We live in a rural area, only Verizon has coverage at the house, AT&T has sketchy coverage in town, and that's it. No Sprint or T-Mobile coverage at all.
We use it mostly to give out to service/medical/business folks we don't want flooding our cell phones.
@TheRealDelia Ditched it more than 20 years ago.
So long I can hardly remember except I needed landline for fax machine. Long time ago. I was marketing consultant & advertising orders were faxed in/out.
I actually only know one person who has a landline. And she’s 99.
Complete waste of 💰 for 20+ years
@TheRealDelia I ditched it in 1999. Also, I am a lot older than 21 and I had no idea what that shelf was either. Never seen that before.
We have two landlines. One for business (since 1977) and one private (since 1980).
Don't want to go cell only because when the power goes out for more than a week only the land lines work.
Also most of my old friends (some of whom also don't have cell phones) and customers know those landline numbers by heart and I don't want to lose those numbers or see them transferred to spammers.
@TheRealDelia We still have one because my mom is in her 70s and hates her cell phone. The only people that call it are robo calls/telemarketers and my aunt.
@TheRealDelia I've never had one, unless you count the landline in my dorm room. I got my first cell phone in 2003 and my first apartment in 2004.
My parents had one until 2019, but got rid of it when they moved because cell reception at the lake house is actually more reliable than the land line.
@TheRealDelia We had one up until about 2022, I think. We had kids and refused to give them cell phones until they were in high school, so having a land line was needed. They got cells in 2022, so we did away with the landline.
@TheRealDelia We had a home phone while the children were in school so there was one number they needed to memorize. We kept it longer because during a hurricane, the cell towers were down but we could still reach family through the land line with a corded phone.