WE’RE IN THE MONEY
We Finally Dumped the Old Landline Phone — Sort Of
Saving another thirty-plus smackers a month
As I’ve whined in a number of other posts, I have been trying for years to get agreement from my wife to kill our landline phone, but she has resisted.
Her argument was that the connected phones are scattered all over the house, so she can pick up a call easily without running to find her cell phone. My rebuttal was that 99% of the calls we get on that line are scammers.
She also insisted that we’d need that line if the Internet went down. That’s sort of true, though some phone calls do route through the public internet so we might not be able to call friends with VOIP lines, but it’s also true that a power failure has killed both the landline and FIOS Internet. Moreover, a major disaster — earthquake, nuclear bomb, solar flare EMP — would likely take out both also. Despite my logic, she remained steadfastly opposed to removing the old line.
I won a skirmish in the war this past summer. I convinced her to let me install a switch that let me kill the landline during peak scammer hours. I’d turn it on every morning and switch it off in the early afternoon. That cut the annoyance calls greatly.
