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So, yesterday, I forgot my phone at home. I was phoneless at work. Eeeeek! And yes, irrationally, I thought, oh no... should I go home and get it!? :eek:

So, I called my hubby, and let him know that I didn't have it. No big deal. I really didn't have a way to reach my son (quietly) to let him know as well, since he was on his way/going into school. He calls/texts me when he gets home, and his brother does the same from his ipad. So, DH ended up texting to tell them after school.

I thought it would be hard, since I'm one of those who constantly checks everything - grades, food balances, bank accounts, emails, news, FB, etc. BUT, I was happy to see the only really hard thing for me to work around was my lunch. :giggle Lunch?! Why yes... since I read on my phone, I was missing my book and characters! I realized that I don't check my phone as constantly as I thought. I only reached for my phone a handful of times throughout the day, so I was happy. :yesss

The one thing that would have helped if I had my phone was the ability to sign up for conferences for my 4th grader. Since I didn't have my phone, I was stuck doing it at 5 when I got home, so I didn't get the best times, and got kind of late appointments, but still workable.

What about you? Have you ever been phoneless?
 
ALL THE TIME. I cannot keep up with my phone and just leave it laying around and forget about it. Once I lost it for a week! My family and friends know that if they call or text, there is probably a 50/50 chance I will pick up or respond.
 
GlazeFamily3 said:
ALL THE TIME. I cannot keep up with my phone and just leave it laying around and forget about it. Once I lost it for a week! My family and friends know that if they call or text, there is probably a 50/50 chance I will pick up or respond.
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omigoodness... I can't do that. I am constantly checking on grades and texting my boys, hubby and mother! :giggle
 
OH NO!!! Even for me who is not a phone addict, that sounds awful. Actually, I misplace my phone a lot if I'm not wearing slacks/pants with a good pocket. If I'm at my computer it sits on the desk charging or playing a podcast. When I'm downstairs in the pm, I try to keep it by me cause that's when most people text me. I often go to bed and then remember I left it somewhere on that level. I will resort to calling from my landline to see where the ring sounds. At night it's by my bed, charging again. Yes, I'm a nut about charging.
 
Funny...I left the house without mine today. I drove back home to get it. Buuuuut, my grandma is in the hospital right now so I NEED it, otherwise, I probably would have been ok without it.
 
carrie1977 said:
Funny...I left the house without mine today. I drove back home to get it. Buuuuut, my grandma is in the hospital right now so I NEED it, otherwise, I probably would have been ok without it.
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Legit reason to drive home for it! I would too!
 
I think I left my phone home a few times the first year or two I owned a smartphone (2013-2014; and prior to that my flip phone was always in my purse unless my husband called, because he was pretty much the only one who called lol). But now I've established a rather compulsive habit of checking that I've got it. If I did forget it, I'd probably turn around and go back because I need to be in touch with my homeschooled kids.
 
I always have this irrational fear that the one day I forget my phone it will be the day that the car breaks down or something else happens lol. Then I start thinking back to all the years I didn't have a phone at all and was on the road constantly, even driving back and forth to college every weekend 4 hours away. I tell myself I survived then, so I guess I can survive now and my family knows how to reach me at work if there's an emergency. I have forgotten it a time or two and work too far away to go back and get it. I usually have someone else text my family members to let them know I'm without it. But it's usually the last thing I check for as I'm leaving the house or work.
 
I don't own a smart phone, DH and I share a Tracfone and he carries that around with him. But neither one of us know the number on it, and it isn't usually on. We turn it on for emergencies, to make calls from it. I can remember we didn't even own a phone when we first were married. It actually was rather nice, no interruptions. When we needed to make a call, we either waited until we got to our respective jobs, or we used the pay phone booth a few blocks away. Those were the days. :-)
 
I've been trying to make it a point if we're all out as a family and I don't need my phone for a Michael's JoAnn's coupon or something like that I'll leave it at home. It feels so weird though!! Freeing, but so weird!!

I've had a cell phone since what the late 90's or early 2000's?? So almost half my life...now that's nuts to think about LOL!
 
I'm home most of the time, but I frequently leave it in my bedroom & will forget about it for hours at a time. I occasionally leave it at home when I'm doing errands & such. I usually realize it when it's not worth turning back around & then I'm paranoid that I'll end up breaking down & not being able to call anyone.
 
I almost never go anywhere with my phone. There was a big lineup at the grocery store and I went to get my phone to peruse pinterest and...yikes....no phone!!! I had left it at home. I was bummed that I had to stand there for 15 minutes, doing nothing.

Life is rough LOL
 
I don't have kids but my parents. I LOVE LOVE LOVE BEING WITHOUT MY PHONE!! Malaysia trend is using the Whatsapp and then add you to all the groups. Malaysians love sending tonnes of messages through whatsapp. They love sending things on healthy,self help ... etc. And if I chose to leave the group I'm labeled anti social. Another thing is Asian bosses love sending email at 11pm , 12am.. 5am, 6am hoping that you will attend to it immediately.

So I am happy without my phone for days. No stress.. no small talk on whatsapp for me to reply.. no notification. I try to live a life where I am not attached to 'something'. My sisters will be dramatic without a phone.

I know , I'm WEIRD!!!
 
IntenseMagic said:
I always have this irrational fear that the one day I forget my phone it will be the day that the car breaks down or something else happens lol.
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I do semi panic when I forget my phone and wonder about breaking down. God help me if I got out of the car and waited for the police to notice me. I'd probably be run over a couple of times. :faint2
 
Almost! When I was in London last year, I would not/could not pay for international rates on my iPhone. I had my phone on airplane mode all day until we would find wi-fi at dinner and then later when we got back to the hotel. I/we all survived, but it was a bit funny to see 15 people, mostly teenager, whip out their phones the minute we sat down at the dinner table. I think I limited myself to posting one or two pictures each day, just so my friends would know where I was.
 
can't really give an opinion on this one, because even though I haven't won a cell phone for years (maybe 3?) I rarely go out alone anymore, and I'm at home next to the computer most of the time, but, as someone who spent almost 40 years without..... I know is more than doable. :)
I would love for Sarita to not be so glued to it sometimes... the only thing that makes me love my mum even more than I love her already: I can imagine the state of her emotional being when I was a teen and in my early 20s...when she couldn't call me or text me or know where I was unless I called her......
I think we are lucky as parents in these days, that we can be in touch with them so often....!!!!
 
IntenseMagic said:
Then I start thinking back to all the years I didn't have a phone at all and was on the road constantly
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I think that. But then I realize that people who used to stop to help, probably think you have a phone, and don't stop anymore.
 
I hate how much I miss my phone when I don't have it. But it is the way that I communicate all day. We don't have a landline, and dh doesn't have a phone at work. So it's texting. Texts during the day with him. Texts with my mom friends for plans. Texts or calls from my parents/in law. TLP for waiting rooms.
I do make it a point to not pull it out when I'm with people. But I check to make sure I have it.
 
bestcee said:
I think that. But then I realize that people who used to stop to help, probably think you have a phone, and don't stop anymore.
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Yep, I've had that thought myself when I see people on the side of the road...well, they probably have a phone and already called someone.
 
I don't have a landline anymore, only the cell phone. But, I am not tied to it all day long. In fact, I am rarely on the phone. Not even for texting or FB (hate the FB app with all the crap it forces into your feed). I have the puppy in obedience classes and they request that you either put the phone on silent mode or don't even bring it to class. So I put it on silent mode. This last Thursday I forgot to take it off silent and it was 6 hours later when I realized it. Part of that time I was with my cousin at her house and the phone was in the car. Never missed not having it. During the time it was on silent mode I had 5 phone calls... one left a voice mail and the other 4 were tele-marketing crap.

I do have a story about our society and cell phones these days. Back when I had my 2 previous dogs, I used to take them on walks all the time. This was probably 9 or 10 years ago and I didn't have a smart phone, just a regular cell phone. I never took it with me on the walk. Where I live is close to our local water park so I was walking in that area. A couple of kids were ahead of me, one on a bike and the other one walking. The one walking fell down. I stopped and asked her if she was ok since she was sitting on the ground sobbing. She said she was but wouldn't quit crying. I again asked if something was wrong. She asked if she could use my phone to call her mom in between sobs. I told her I didn't have one on me. The girl on the bike appeared to be a year or 2 older and was constantly telling the girl to get up and stop being such a baby (evidently it was an older sister). The minute I told her I didn't have a phone, she stopped crying, got up and started walking away. I just shook my head and continued on my walk.
 
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