How many phones do you have?

United States
April 16, 2007 10:58am CST
How many phones do you have in your household? My husband and I each have a cell phone. In the house, we have one land line but 5 different phones! We have one in our bedroom, one in the kitchen, one in the living room and one in the office! We also have an all-in-one printer which I can use as a phone too.
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@Easytime (126)
• Nigeria
16 Apr 07
I have only a mobile phone. And I value it very much bc it is a means of communicating with people in the world. places i cant go, i simply get there with my phone. I dont have more than just a phone because, the cost of maintaining a phone is high especially in nigeria where there is high underemployment. So, I cut my coat according to my cloak.
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• United States
16 Apr 07
We have a land line cos' where we live, the cell phones don't work very well. Often, no connection. I've tried different providers but all at the same. The one we currently have is the "best". That's why we need the land line.
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@darkness01 (1300)
16 Apr 07
Thats a lot of phones. Just one mobile (or cell phone) for each person and no land lines in sight, its easier for people to get the calls that relate to them that way and it costs less!
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• United States
16 Apr 07
I know! We initially only had 3 phones for the land line (including the printer) but my FIL decided that we needed a speaker phone and got us 2 more!!!
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• United States
18 Apr 07
We have one cell phone that my husband has most of the time. We hope to get me one here soon & get rid of the land line we have. As for land lines we have three phones (off of one base) and one corded phone.
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• Canada
16 Apr 07
i have one land line, and two phones hooked up to it. one in the kitchen and one in the living room. i also have a cell phone.
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@4cuteboys (4099)
• United States
16 Apr 07
My husband and I each have a cell phone, and 1 landline. We only have one cordless phone hooked up to the land line though. The charger is in our bedroom but during the day I will bring it into the living room with me, and then back on the charger when I go back to bed for the night.
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@thegeek (73)
• Spain
16 Apr 07
we have 3 mobile phones, and 1 ip-telephone and one normal.
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
29 May 07
I have a cell phone I have a phone in the kitchen. A phone in 2 bedrooms. When my children still lived at home I had6 phones in my house.
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• United States
16 Apr 07
What an interesting topic. I live with my boyfriend, and when I moved in, I couldn't get over how many things of one particular item he had. Let's take the phones, as that was the original topic question... he has 2 in the kitchen (I don't know why), 2 in the master bedroom (1 cordless, 1 corded), 1 in the guest bedroom, 2 in the den (both cordless), 2 in his office (1 corded, 1 cordless) and 1 in his shop. That makes a total of.... TEN phones. Who needs 10 phones??????? He has his cell phone, a pager and he's also a HAM radio operator. He claims he has all of these pieces of equipment so he can always be in touch, yet, if he doesn't want to be reached, he can conveniently be "out of touch." Televisions.... Who needs this many television sets... 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the dining room, 1 in the bedroom, 1 in the guest bedroom, 1 in the den, 1 in his office, and 1 in his shop. I mean, come on already... SEVEN television sets? Oh, and we have MY television set (I had only 1) that is not hooked up and sits in the middle of the living room floor. One of our constant sources of argument material seems to be his hang-ups of money and his idea that he has nothing. Well, that's a topic for another discussion, but even so... this all seems a bit excessive to me.
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• United States
16 Apr 07
Thank God we only have 1 TV. And that's how I plan to keep it! LOL!!
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
16 Apr 07
My partner has a total of three cell phones. I have one cell phone but I only use mine for emergencies. There are three land line phones. One in our bedroom, one in my moms' bedroom, and one that sits by the computer.
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• United States
16 Apr 07
Why does your partner need 3 cell phones?
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@tinamwhite (3252)
• United States
21 Apr 07
We have a land line with a cordless in the living room and an extension in the bedroom that is hooked up to my All-in-one fax, printer, scanner, copier. We also each have a cell phone.....My youngest child is four and I am having a deleima about whether to get him a cell phone for when he starts school this fall...while I know he can not use it in class....I want him to feel like he can reach me at anytime. Since I always read the other responses before responding...We also have a bigscreen tv in the living room, one in our bedroom, and one in Mom's room, and 2 in our son's room--one for tv and movies and one with his game consoles hooked up to it.... It seems amazing to me that we need so much technology around all of the time but with our hectic lifestyles...it seems necessary. I would be utterly lost without my cell phone now-a-days, as it has become more than a convience..
• United States
25 Apr 07
Yes, cell phones have definitely become a convenience!! Yesterday, we received another computer (for free!!) and now, we have 2 desktops and a laptop in the house. Hmm...pretty soon, we're going to run out of place to store stuff!!!
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@ciyamala (27)
• India
18 Apr 07
wow thats lot of phones.My husband and i have a cell phone each.We also have a land line.I am pestering my husband to take off the land line.he just wudnt listen.phone has become more than a nessasity
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• United States
19 Apr 07
I wish we don't need the land line though but we have to have it cos' the cell phone reception is not so good where we live. No choice :( Maybe when we move, we can get rid of the land line and sell off all the phones we have! LOL!!
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@marababe (2503)
• Philippines
16 Apr 07
We have many phones her at home because there are 8 of us who live here. I have 2 cellphones, my brother has 1, my mom has 1, my dad has 1, our maid has 1, my cousin has 1, my 2 aunt have 2 (1each) plus our land line so that makes it 10. But you really wouldn't notice it because we rarely see each other at home. By the time I get home all of them are sleeping and by the time I wake up they're already out. So it's like we just have 2 or 4 (if it's just me and the maid at home) phones at home.
@Woodpigeon (3710)
• Ireland
16 Apr 07
We only have three phones. We have two mobile phones. We also have a normal landline. I have a fax machine on the computer, but it is not a seperate machine.
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• United States
27 May 07
My boyfriend has a cell phone and I have a cell phone - our home has one landline connected to one phone and two computers. Rarely do we use the receiver to make calls, it's mostly for dialing out on the computers or receiving calls.
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@usmcsgtwife (4997)
• United States
27 May 07
we have 2 cell phones and then 2 landline phones
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• United States
21 Apr 07
There are only two of us in the house, and we each have a cell phone. We never bothered to even get a landline hooked up when we moved to this house, because we felt we didn't need it. Our computer is hooked to the cable for the internet, which is far faster than a phone line (though a bit more expensive).
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• Philippines
21 Apr 07
we have several phones at home. the landline telephone, one with three extensions (1 for the room, 1 inside the house and another inside the shop) and one cellphone each for my mother-in-law and my husband. then my brother has 2 cellphones for each service provider while i have three, one for personal use and two for the business. that would be 10 all in all.
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@mskzalameda (4023)
• Philippines
18 Apr 07
I only have one mobile phone and having so many won't help me. I think it will just be a difficult thing to maintain so many cellphones in hand and also, I am not a text addict or a mobile phone addict. As long as I have a gadget to be considered in communication, I'm fine with that. I don't need another one for just my extra. We have a land line phone and I am more of that rather than my own mobile ha ha! Its less on the budget ha ha!
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@goje87 (23)
• India
16 Apr 07
in our family we have three cell phones, my dad, my mom and myself having one each. and then we have two landline connections. one is for our home and one is my personal landline. for the land line which we have for home we have three parallel telephones connected. one in my room, one in the drawing room and the other one is a cordless that can be carried anywhere in the home...
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• Brazil
20 Apr 07
I have two cell phones, One for my work and another to mey family and my friends. I like to use both, and I like so stay in a cell phone for a long time...