Anyone get rid of their home phone?

[Naxet1959]

We got rid of ours and went with a Magic Jack. The quality was iffy enough that we went back and got a land line. My wife makes and recieves a ton of calls for some volunteer work so quality was needed. Cell coverage is ok but its nice to have a dedicated phone, especially if the power goes out in the area.

[Palmguy]

I've never had a landline. Never missed it.

[Honu]

have a vonage line ? but thinking of dumping it ? but the problem is we have clients all over the world we need to talk to ? lucky not to often but we do call Europe and Australia and a few other countries once in a while ? so not sure how to deal with this

but we did this week cut out $60 of our cable bill bare min now and going to start also controlling things the kids watch a bit more not just financial but the commercials and such these days are not what I want my 6 year old watching

trying to get a few things else under control with extras we pay for

[jklaughrey]

Been wireless since '98. Wife has been as well since we were married in '05.

[S-1]

We got rid of our land line around a year ago. We bought cell phones for our kids (10 & 12 yo) and added them to our plan. It's nice for them to have a phone so that we can get a hold of them if they're at a friends house or during sports season/after school activities. We all share 700 minutes with unlimited texting and we still have roll over minutes. It seems like everybody uses AT&T so all of the cell to cell calls are free. In the end, we saved $70 a month.

[Sry0fcr]

I've only had a landline for 1 year out of the 6 I've been out of my parent's house. I'm about to drop my internet completely and downgrade the cable to basic. I'm tethering off my Sprint Evo right now getting 4MB down and it costs me nothing over my unlimited data plan & I have unlimited rentals from Blockbuster for $25/mo that I use more than watching the stuff that comes on the movie channels that I've already seen.

[orionz06]

I have never had a landline. I technically have one now, but no phone is hooked up to it. The discount earned on Fios for having the phone is greater than the price for the line.

[TehLlama]

Military made me wireless, absolutely no going back.

Google Voice and a good internet connection makes most landlines redundant in my view.

[Belmont31R]

Glad to see Im not alone in scaling back all this stuff but seemingly a bit late to the game.

[mr_smiles]

I got a question for all you bug out guys, what happens when something causes a power outage or an emergency that causes and overloaded and crashes the cell networks

My humble land line will work even with when the power goes out and doesn't have to worry about crashing due to volume. It might be antiquated. But some times simple shit is the best shit.

How about them m35's, how great are those things for crossing the desert when the zombies go on strike! Just need a couple of .50's and external self sealing fuel tanks and you're golden. Don't forget the 2 year supply of MRE's... I'm just punning.