Cordless Phones
We finally decided to join the 21st century and buy a cordless phone. Prior to that we had three phones in the house: my 10-year-old phone, Chris's 13-year-old phone, and a hand-me-down cordless that we rarely used because it didn't work very well.
Working at home re-energized me to want a better phone so after a little bit of research we bought the Panasonic KX-TG1033S Dect 6.0, and so far I love it. I can WALK AROUND while I'm on the phone! I can even go INTO THE GARAGE! While I'm ON THE PHONE! It's incredible!
Other things I love: it comes with three handsets and they're all on the same system, so when I update the phonebook on one I can update it to all three. (Before, only the phone upstairs had a phonebook feature.) It has a mute button (a lifesaver on conference calls).
Things that make it not quite perfect: the volume is on the handset itself so I have to bring it away from my ear to change. The voicemail light doesn't come on when we have a new message (because it has built-in voicemail we don't use, and doesn't recognize our Vonage voicemail stutter tone). It does say "New Message" on the handset display, but that's dark until you pick it up so when you walk in the room you can't tell right away. No talking Caller ID.
Overall I'm very happy with it. We should have gotten one much sooner.
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Okay, now I'm curious - why do you have a land line at all? I thought both of you have cell phones already?
Still no cell phone for Chris! Must get on that immediately.
But even when he gets one we won't give up our landline because a) cell phone reception isn't very good here b) cell phones sound worse c) we won't have our cell phones on all the time.
I still like having my home phone and cell phone separate.
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