we have a cordless phone system that has 4 phones attached--one in the master bedroom, one in chandi's bedroom, one in the kitchen, and one in the laundry room. right now we have ONE friggin' phone floating around the house and usually it's missing in action.
now, granted, o
ne of the phones is out of commission due to an unfortunate laundering incident. which i claim NO responsibility for. except for the fact that i loaded the washer. and turned it on.
ne of the phones is out of commission due to an unfortunate laundering incident. which i claim NO responsibility for. except for the fact that i loaded the washer. and turned it on.
so that still leaves THREE phones, but where are they? why is it that there is NEVER a cordless phone when i need one? or when the phone rings, and so then someone has to bust a move down to the laundry room to pick up the fax phone? which i hate to use because it doesn't show caller id, so it's totally kickin' it old school, with "surprise caller" on the phone. yeah, mindi is NOT a fan.
i wonder if this is how it is at other people's house? do they lose their phones as well? are they all in the same little hideaway that mia has stashed them in? along with my cell phone and first wedding ring?
three phones should NOT be that hard to locate.
but i can't find them.
i am seriously considering getting one of the old, wall-mounted phones like i had growing up in my morningside house. that cord must have been 20 feet long--all i know is that it was long enough to stretch down the stairs where i liked to lay on the landing and talk about REALLY important things, like tommy howell and my next 40 minute (those were the days!) tanning booth appointment at kay's kut and kurl.
is there such a thing as a gps system for the cordless phone? i would pay mad cheddar for such a thing. and then i'd install it on my cell phone.
fyi: 20 dollar reward to any of my children (or not my children) to find all 3 phones and have them in my hand by 5pm!~ desperate times call for desperate measures.
fyi: 20 dollar reward to any of my children (or not my children) to find all 3 phones and have them in my hand by 5pm!~ desperate times call for desperate measures.
and bribery.
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I will assume this is why ou didn't answer my call tonight.
Funny you should mention it! My husband just went on quite the rampage about it just before dinner! I mean, seriously angry about the phone not being in it's cradle. I told him to go eat something because, although the problem is annoying, he was seriously being an a-double-snake and I think it was hunger induced.
Incidentally, HE answered the phone during dinner and I later found the phone -- GASP! -- in the kitchen. You mean HE didn't replace it to the cradle? For shame!
gas prices kill us, I'll fly out asap!!!
Umm, isn't that why they make the "page" button on each of the cradles?
Around here it's not the cordless phone, it's the cell phone. I don't have a Mia stashing it someplace, but one of my dogs likes to steal it & run off with it. She doesn't chew it, she just swipes it to (try to) get attention. I have had to call my cell from my home phone in order to figure out where she stashed it.
This is the exact story of our house. Other than the laundering incident. It's MADDENING.
We have 3. One in the master bedroom, one in the kitchen, and one on the corner of 900 south and 900 east where it flew off the hood of my car on the way to cafe rio. Oops.
recently went out and bought a new set... yeah, they don't have a page button...3 phones missing around here, too.
Love and miss the 20 foot cord and the wall mounted phone. I always took mine out the back door. Mom would yank me back in like she'd caught herself a marlin.
OK, so this is the exact reason my husband only asked for a corded phone for christmas 4 years ago. We now own 2 corded phones and 4, Yes 4 cordless phones and we only have one at any given moment!
It never fails. These things are designed to get lost. Just like Ryan's stupid blue tooth thingy--it doesn't matter how many of the things you have. Good luck!
Banished cordless phones 3 years ago: EVERY phone in my house has a cord...and guess what?? I know where they all are!!! Following mom's example, my kitchen phone does have a 20 foot cord :)
We are always talking about this same very thing. They are NEVER around when you're in need. It's frusterating.
We got cordless phones when we were first married. Cheap suckers broke 2 months later. And we haven't gotten new ones.... can you believe it?? Almost a year and a half of NO cordless. I hate it, the phone rings and I have to throw the blanket off me, get off the couch that was reclined and put the comp/plate of food off me and hope I get the 7 feet to the phone before the answering machine get's it.
Oh, and good luck to findin your phones.
We only have cell phones. We can get away with it beacuse we have an almost 2 year old son, not 4 girls! May the force be with you.
Oh yes...my biggest pet peeve. Usually it is my darling hubby who sets it down someone totally stupid like on a random shelf or lets it fall into the sofa cushions! completely maddening!
This is why we no longer have a cordless phone - the batteries usually died before we found them, and eventually the phone would stop working. After going through 3 phones, we decided to give up.
I will be right over! I need $20 about now! :) Don't I wish I could be right over! I miss you and meg these days.
seriously, 40 minute tanning sessions?
and was that place really called kay's kut and kurl? because i don't think that would fly where i grew up.
We actually DID break down and buy a wall phone for this exact purpose. but we upgraded to the 20th century version that has caller ID. And it's located in grand central station of our house (i.e. kitchen) so that I can get to in time from anywhere on the main floor. But still, every time I pick it up and try to move away from the wall to multi-task, I get jerked back to the wall and think, "If only this thing were cordless!"
We have all four of our phones still because we have them on very high shelves that the kids can't reach yet soooo we haven't lost ours. Good luck on finding them
We NEVER know where our cordless is. Yes, I did go out and get a phone "on a leash" as my kiddos call it. We also have an old dial phone. It's the best when the kids pals are over because several of them have actually stared at it and tried to push the numbers through the dial not sure what else to do.
I'm anxious to see if the reward works!
i hate the phone. i hide it on purpose (under a sofa cushion, in the frig, in a bathroom drawer...) all of the people i am close to have my cell phone #. i will usually answer THAT phone, or answer the message if i don't feel like answering. the phone is there for MY convenience, not everyone else's...so i NEVER run for a phone. NEVER. especially with claler ID, you can always call them back!
I hate finding the phone next to the toilet in the basket of hunting and fishing magazines. HMMMMMMM, wonder who put it there?
The phone saga!! You are so flippin ingenious!! Of course you touched a nerve at our house!! Ditto, ditto everything you said!! I too am seriously going to be purchasing some of those old orange, 20 foot cord, Napolean Dynamite phones!! I'm sick to death of never having a cordless phone around AND like you said, busting a move to make it to the wall mounT!! AAAAAAhhhhhhhhh! Such stress!
P.S. It's truly a mystery! Where exactly ARE THEY!!??????
I've got better there is 5 cordless here and nope I can not find one either. I so need a land line. You crack me up! tanning? I would be black as the night.
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