I don't have a land line.  I know only a handful of people who even have one.  Most of those people really don't even need them.  You can always get your son a prepaid cell phone to call his friends on in a few years.  That way you can control how many minutes he has to talk to his friends.

We still have a landline but but we hardly ever use it. I keep it just in case cell phones decide not to work.

Curious said:

I have a landline, but I don't have a cell phone. 

I thought I was going to be the only one. We don't have cells. And actually haven't missed them like I thought we would. It's rather nice to go out of the house and be unreachable.

I'll just go park it in my rocker and turn my hearing aids up so I can hear all you whippersnappers and your talk about your fancy cellular telephones...

We only have cell phones. We got a little box thingie that gives us full cell service at our house since we're in a crappy service area.

We are planning on getting a landline again though because its actually costing us *more* to not have a landline. Sounds silly but the way our cable/Internet/phone was bundled it was cheaper than with just Internet/cable. Wish we would have realized this before we dropped the landline.

only cells here 

I have both and i use both frequently. I use my cell to text and the landline to talk. It worked out cheaper that way for me

Always have had both.  I love my cell phone, but I need a land line to run a business.   Also, I think they are much easier to hear on.

cheesehead4ever said:

I have a land line for multiple reasons. 

1.  If anyone in the house needs to call 911 and for some reason can't relay the address, they can trace the call a lot faster.

2.  I have two kids.  Although my oldest has a cell phone, it's not always charged.  If either one of them has an emergency I don't want them searching for a cell phone.  If DH and I aren't home, two out the three cell phones would be gone and I know my youngest wouldn't be able to find her sister's cell phone.

3. I am not paying for unlimited minutes on our family plan so DD can call all of her friends for hours at a time on her cell phone.  Our land line has free local calls and free long distance.

4.  In case of power outage or natural disaster, we would still have phone service.  We do keep one corded phone that doesn't require electricity under our bed so if without power, we can make phone calls.  Weeks like this (Hurricane Sandy) makes me grateful for that option.

^yup! All great reasons I want to hold on to my land line.

We got rid of ours a few months ago and haven't missed it yet. DS started school this year so when the time comes that he wants to chat on the phone I'll just add him to my plan

Love said:

We only have cell phones. We used to keep a landline, with just the basic, "there if you need it," plan. But after a few years, the only people who ever called it were telemarketers, and I found out that any phone in a landline jack, with a service subscription or not, can dial 911. So I cancelled it and never looked back. 

We have a family share cell plan through Sprint, with unlimited everything, so even if the kids were to want to talk to their friends for hours upon hours, it won't cost us anything.

Ditto!

cell phones only. no one would ever contact us on the landline if we had one

We just have cell phones. I don't think I have even talked on a land line since I worked. So its been 4 years since I heard a phone call or answered a land line  L-)

Gave up the landline six years ago. The only calls we got were for Gene's Casino tours...apparently it was their number before us. I have a cell to use when I need it...I do screen my mothers calls she doesn't need to call me everyday. She calls out of boredom I screen to keep my sanity.

I'm with you, @tranquil.  I'm not ready to give up the landline just yet.  DW and I both still have "stupid phones."  I still misplace mine on occasion and once left it at Starbucks.  Also good to have a landline just in case of an emergency. 

 

episcopal said:

I'm with you, @tranquil.  I'm not ready to give up the landline just yet.  DW and I both still have "stupid phones."  I still misplace mine on occasion and once left it at Starbucks.  Also good to have a landline just in case of an emergency. 

^I have been known to "misplace" my cell phone a few times too lol. 

Oh and even if you don't pay for a landline, I'm 99% sure you can still plug a phone in and call 911 for free.

Gotcha! Thanks for checking into that!

We only have a landline because it is required by my employer (of course they don't pay for it).  Interestingly enough, whenever work calls me, they call my cell, which they also don't pay for.  I have DSL internet instead of cable because I was required to have a landline and the cable company in my area didn't offer phone service where I live when I bought my house.  They might now, I haven't checked.  We don't have cable TV (or any other TV service), and I didn't want two separate bills for phone and internet. 

We are working on moving halfway across the country, just dependent on when we get jobs.  Once we get out there and settled, I am planning on ditching the landline entirely.  No one we know calls our landline, if it rings we ignore it because 95% of the time it is a telemarketer or a wrong number.  I'll probably add a third line to our cell service once we are settled and use that as our "house" phone.

mommy2brooklyn said:

I don't have a house phone anymore. Haven't in probably 8-10 years. I don't miss it at all, that is until I can't find my cell phone and then I wish I had a land line to call it so I could find it!!!!

Have you ever tried wheresmycellphone.com?  You go to the website, enter your cell phone number and it will call it for you.  It's free.  You have to deal with an advertisement but that is it.

We had a land line back in NJ, but never used it. All we got were wrong numbers, telemarketers and my Nana called me on it. For us it was a waste of money. Now we just have our cell phones....maybe when the boys are older we'll get a landline. But for now cells are fine.

in my home we only have cell phones. We decided to cut the landline because we were cutting items from our budget.

We have a landline. I can't hear very well on any cell phone even under the best of circumstances. Also, my house appears to be some sort of cell phone reception black hole. I have to go outside to use it. I always tell people to try the landline first. If I don't answer that, then you can call my cell phone.

I didn't read all the way through and someone else might have mentioned this, but have you considered a VOIP like Vonage or Magic Jack?  We have a Magic Jack that we would use ONLY for emergencies.  My parents also have a Magic Jack, and it works fine for us, though my parents have low-bandwidth internet, so sometimes they can't do Internet AND talk on the phone (We're talking 1mb upload). 

We don't even generally have a phone plugged into the Magic Jack.  We really got it so my DH could receive faxes at the house without paying for a landline.  It didn't work, but DSS 15 knows it exists, should he ever have an emergency and be unable to find his cell phone. 

for emergencies, I would have one....but, now magicjack has an option for people that dont have a computer...is that a landline? Having a cell has saved my life a couple times...but if towers get knocked down, they are useless.