Apparently there is something wrong with me!

[Furrydog7]

I hate the house phone with a passion. I much prefer texts and emails as i can answer when it is convenient for me. However my mum thinks that there is something wrong with me as i have the house phone unplugged a lot. She doesn't understand that i don't always want my time inturupted by people talking crap about what they have had for dinner etc and the only way to convey to certain members of my family that i cannot talk is to unplug the phone.

I haven't had a house phone for almost 10 years, so I think your mum is ridiculous. Is she the type who thinks that a ringing phone must always be answered, no matter what? My mum is one of those.

I’m with you, never have my house phone plugged in.

I do the same, I like to know who’s calling so I know if I want to answer. I have a friend who’s lonely, I dedicate some of my time to her but she’d call everyday if I answered & talk for over an hour. I don’t want it

I don't have a house phone.

We too don’t have a house phone. Don’t know anyone who still does

Only people who call our house phone is MIL and FIL.

It's unplugged now and again....

I’m with you! I don’t like speaking on the phone at all - I’d much rather email/text or speak to someone face to face.

Just unplug house phone permanently

I don’t know anyone with a house phone apart from my parents!

My house phone is for emergencies. If anyone calls me on it I don't answer. If you want to contact me then call my mobile.

Your mum needs to get with the times. I suggest you keep the house phone unplugged except at night if you remember....

How would you have coped 40 years ago when there was no email or texting and you couldn't unplug your phone?

I think people are becoming so insular these days and I'm not sure It's healthy. I say that - it's only on MN as far as I can see. I don't know anyone IRL who thinks like this.

PIL are the only people I know with a house phone

We’d be stuck without a landline. I’ve never heard the term house phone. We have no mobile reception at all. It’s nice when people call to talk. I don’t know anyone over about 25 who only has a mobile phone.
Plenty of walkers and cyclists call at the door to use the phone.

I got rid of my house phone years ago and my parents were/are very unhappy about it. I think it's just a lifelong habit for them that they can't break, it's how they're used to things being and they don't like the change. They don't like being pushed back timewise at other people's convenience and believe that a phonecall is like they've put their head round your front door and they're giving you a shout- you'd be rude to ignore that you see.

Thing is, I'd only ever get nuisance calls and calls from my parents on my housephone. It was a massive inconvenience to always have to rush downstairs (only 1 handset in the hallway) in the middle of changing a nappy or something, only to have it either ring off when I got there, be a cold caller, or be my DF asking a ridiculously mundane question that really could have waited.
They just didn't get it.

We still have a house phone but we have young children and they know how to use it in an emergency.

Only person who rings it is my 90 year old Gran though and that’s hardly ever now ! Or and call centre computers sometimes ring it and leave a stupid automated message.

If you can get rid of it you might as well and save money.

Your Mum is being silly.

I do have a house phone ( so i can have the internet through BT ) but I never use it and if i get a call on it 99.9% of the time its a prince wanting to give me money if i could just send him a bit of cash 1st
or I have been involved in a crash and am due a gazillon pound compo .
I am happy to talk on my mobile to close family / friends but most of my conversations are via text.

We've got one plugged in but only because it's been part of our broadband package. I don't think it's actually been used for years..

Do people not ring your mobile for these boring chats? I unplugged my landline years ago but I still end up on my mobile for an hour while my mum tells me about her day

I think its more of a generational thing.
Our parents have phone lines.
We chose our Internet provider because we didn't need to get a line.
We all have our own mobiles if people want to call us but do prefer texts or ehaysapp.
I find a call to be quite intrusive.

@redcrow. Yep. My dad wants an hour plus a day on the phone.

YANBU.
I haven’t had mine plugged in for years. I don’t see the point when we have mobiles these days. I hate phone calls too, I’d rather throw my phone out of the window than answer. 😂

I don't have a house phne.. totally forgot they existed 😂

We don't have a house phone. 99% of the time my phone is on silent so I call people back or they text me and I text them back.

I don't have one. I had to get rid of the last one, because my ex never topped his mobile up, and was running up riddiculous bills using it (instead of just asking me for a lend of my mobile which has 5000 odd minutes), and I just never got round to replacing it when we broke up.

Yanbu! We lived in our house for about 8 months before we remembered the phone was still somewhere in a box.

Also the tv. I never watch it, I don’t have the time! My mum constantly asks me have I seen X or Y. No mum!