Got my first paycheck today, so I have a question for my fellow lounge lizards...

[DarkTirade]

now that I can afford a cel phone, is there ANY reason to keep a land line? :shrug: I'm planning on getting a cel tomorrow, and I really can't think of a good reason to keep the land line anymore. It's only 20 bucks a month, but that's 20 bucks that could go to other things.

*edit* Also wanted to add that I'm talking about my own personal line... there's a regular landline in the house already. :)

[InternalDialogue]

1. Only reason I keep mine is that it serves my security system.

My alarm won't call out without a dial tone.

Maybe there's a workaround for me, but other than that, I'd go full cellular...

[DarkTirade]

5. No problem with that here.

:)

[aquaman]

19. Yea, me too.....

Alarm and Tivo are the only reasons I have a landline. I never use it to actually call someone anymore.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear DarkTirade...

We use ours for the fios feed into the house...

We also have a fax, which requires a land line...

And, I could be wrong about this, but are there questions about the 911 dispatchers having trouble finding you if you used a cell phone to call in an emergency?

Or has that been solved?

Anyway, we use our land line a lot!

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

3. Well, my land line is a Vonage internet phone

so it has pretty much the same problems a cel phone would have for the 911 thing. :)

And my grandparents have a regular land line here.

[Genevieve]

14. A fax doesn't require a landline...nt

[Parche]

4. I would Celebrate at Olive Garden Instead

invite 20 people and pay for their meal
then desert....

Then you can use the rest of the $$$ on yourself, whatever you have left
:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:

[DarkTirade]

6. There's an Olive Garden right near my work... hmmm...

:P

[Mutley]

7. I have only my cell phone.

The only problem I can foresee is that if your phone goes out for some reason, then no one can get in touch with you. But I usually see that as a good thing. :P

[DarkTirade]

8. Well, there's still the house phone here.

Normally I'd be content with just my own line here, but I'm out enough these days and I might need to be contacted while I'm out... so getting a cel phone makes sense for me. :)

[latebloomer]

9. Well, I keep hearing about a link

between cell phones and brain cancer.

I try to use mine as little as possible.

[DarkTirade]

10. Problem solved, I have just empty space up there.

:)

[latebloomer]

16. Guess that has its benefits!

:hi:

[MrScorpio]

11. I have both

I use the land line to call back people that I want to talk to when they call me on my cell. Most people who call me on the land line are people that I don't want to talk to,

[DarkTirade]

12. Well, I don't talk to a whole lot of people on the phone anyway.

Side effect of having not much of a life. :\

I just have one for necessary communication and what little of a life I actually have.

[RoyGBiv]

13. Just a personal line?

No. None at all.

When I lived in tornado country, I kept a land line because whenever a tornado would go rumbling through, invariably the cells would get jammed. A land line is better for those emergency situations, but if there's a "house phone" other than your personal line, I really would have trouble thinking of a reason to keep it if you have a cell.

[DarkTirade]

15. That's what I was thinking.

I'd have to give out the new number to everybody, but that's about it.

[DarkTirade]

17. Hmm... was just on the phone with my brother and he made a pretty good point for keeping the land

line...

Vonage has free call forwarding, and they're not dicks.

Cel phone companies generally are dicks.

So if I keep giving out my Vonage number to everyone and just have it forward to my cel phone, then if my cel phone company dicks me around and I have to get rid of it, I don't have to worry about losing my number. Because the number I'd give to everyone would be the same one even if I had to get a new phone.

[underpants]

18. No

unless you have TiVo or dial-up
Our landline for TiVo is $12 a month

[DarkTirade]

21. I have a Vonage phone.

I don't make many calls so I use the cheaper one they offer, only 20 bucks a month after all the taxes and whatnot.

And I can have it do call forwarding to my cel, so I can just keep giving people my home number and I'll still get the calls when I'm out.

[no name no slogan]

20. BLOW IT ALL ON HOOKERS -N- BLOW

Wait, what?

[DarkTirade]

22. I don't do drugs.

So just hookers for me! :)

[underpants]

23. Well, there's no better time than now to start