Unfortunately, all too often, I used the phone to screen messages. Not only that, but it meant I never had a minute to myself because people could “always” get hold of me.

Once I figured that all out, it was very easy to drop that un-necessity. It was a bit of work to come to that realization, but when you think about it, cell phones are very new to us and we got along just fine without them just a decade ago.

We now use skype and that’s it. Cost- about $3 to $4 a month. Soon we will get a wifi phone to use it with and will no longer need to be tied to the computer when on the phone, but for now, the savings is worth that minor inconvenience.

Sorry about that, lol. Another option you may want to consider is using freecycle to get rid of those phones (or anything else for that matter). We just recently gave our old cells away through freecycle and freed up some drawer space ourselves.