Could you do the three day drawer challenge?

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Switch your phone off and put it in a drawer for 72 hours

No. I don’t have a landline and have a child in nursery that gets sick approximately every 15 seconds! I also need an app on my phone for my car charging.
If I didn’t have DD or had a landline/ petrol car I could though but am completely reliant on my phone now sadly.

Could I? Probably.

Would I? No.

Completely depends on what we are doing. Camping for a few days? Easy. Only issue is my parents health problems.
School day, needed as emergency contact, emails etc... no.

Sort of. Every evening from 6pm

Then Saturday, 12 noon until Monday 8.30. I only have it near me if DH is going to call, if he is working away.

I am self employed. It is essential for me to have a cut off time.

Not at the moment, we have an ill family member and I need to have my phone in case they suddenly get worse

Is this a thing? I haven't heard of it

I would love to do this! Could try it over a weekend but not during the week in case school needed to get in touch about a sick or injured child.

Nope. I could live without social media and reading the news and stuff, but I need my alarms and calendar, and I need to contact people.

Really should try this, I'm completely addicted, hence on Mumsnet in the 3 mins before haircut!

no. I don’t have a landline and I have medical needs.

No, I wouldn't want to. I use my phone for so many things, not just mindless scrolling. And we don't have a landline, so I'd be completely off-grid which doesn't really work when you have a child and elderly parents.

Like a pp I try and leave it downstairs in the evening.

I do a lot of mindless scrolling but do use useful apps as well! Weather, looking at places to go, shopping, news, fitbit, my fitness pal etc.

Wouldn't be practical, the teens contact me, I would have to keep opening up laptop to read news/ do banking/ order food etc/listen to podcasts/radio/ check maps/bus times etc so just looking at a different screen.

no, it's my alarm that wakes me up every morning

I think I could, but I don't necessarily want to. I have left my phone at home before by accident and didn't really miss it but I also have a very ill family member and therefore keeping it on me at all times at the moment.

Plus I wouldn't know what to do with myself without my calendar!!

No purely because don't have a landline. I do put it on dnd except family members evenings and weekends though.

No we don’t have a landline . I have a DD at uni and she needs to be able to contact me.

I do sometimes put my phone to charge Friday night and not pick It up until Monday morning. Everyone important is usually in the house with me and the B classes just text about trivial stuff. I also put phone down early evening unless I’m playing on it. Doesn’t mean I respond to messages straight away. I do tell people not to expect a reply within a few hours though.

If I could borrow a small alarm clock from somewhere, yes. Easily, some days.

But it would have to be a period where I wasn't planning a Big Shop from Tesco (money off using the app) and any sons wanting a lift would have to know to ring the house phone and be very clear about meeting points.

No, I want to be available for my kids and elderly DM.

No because I use my phone for communication not just games/internet!

Often do, sometimes through choice other times because we have no signal. I don't feel the need to take my mobile everywhere.

nope... I get the bus and train to work and have my tickets and the times on my phone, also DD at nursery so have to be available for them to call me every time she has a slight fever...
Also use it as a baby monitor (wifi camera and an app) at night, and my alarm in the morning!

I'd love to be able to be uncontactable for a few days...

No. I need it for eg multi factor authorisation to log into website at work.
I would like to not pick up my phone as much, but it is very difficult when there are things I really do need it for, so I always have it to hand, then find it much harder not to pick it up too much.

I came onto the thread for tips on how to sort my drawers in 3 days!