During those periodic lean times in our family budget, my wife and I have often discussed eliminating our house phone "land line" to save $30-$50 each month, and just use our cell phones. Now that everyone in our family owns one, it's an attractive option but still, we just plain like the convenience of a home phone and the assurance of something close to grab if we have to call 911 in an emergency.
Well, now you can combine the best of both worlds for under $80 with a device from a company called X-Link. If your cell phone is Bluetooth-wireless-enabled, you can plug the X-Link box into your house lines and when your cell phone is near it, it will automatically route your cell calls to your house phones. It can handle up to three cell phones and offers three distinctive rings, so you can tell whose cell phone is ringing. For an additional $30, you can keep your land line and still route your cell calls to your house phones.
It may be time to take that next step into the future, honey...
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Part of my job as a 911 dispatcher is to interrogate callers who are in various states of panic so I can send the appropriate emergency response.
One day a woman called to say that a family member had fallen and needed to go to a hospital.
After finding out her address and assuring her the paramedics would arrive shortly, I asked her, "Do you know what caused the fall?"
"No," the woman said nervously, "what?"
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WISDOM for YOUR WEEK: "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all." (2 Corinthians 4:16-17)
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