AuburnChick's Adventures

I’ve been married twenty-two years.  Over the course of those years, we’ve gone through a number of telephones.

The first one we had was a beer can phone.

Let’s just say that this wasn’t something that was in my hope chest.

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I think it’s in the attic.  I’m feeling too lazy to climb those stairs to go hunting for it just so I can take a picture.  I did, however, find a picture through Google Images…

Oh yes, I was quite proud to have people over with that there thing-a-ma-jig sitting on the end table in my den.

Martha Stewart would have had a fit, eh?

heeheehee

This was our only phone until we had Chicky, when talking on the phone while walking around the house with a fidgety baby was a must.  So, we bought our first cordless phone.

This phone lasted, and lasted, and lasted.  In fact, it’s been in one of the bedrooms for the last seventeen years and is a little worse for wear…

You must keep in mind that this phone has been with us through six moves.  It’s no wonder that the antennae got messed up along the way…

As we added children to the family, our little family of phones grew.  When I was about to give birth to Rooster, I decided it was time for an answering machine.  After all, I knew I’d be nursing him, and with Chicky to look after as well, I doubted that I’d be able to get to the phone in time.

Hence, our next purchase (or perhaps it was a gift…maybe for Christmas??)…

One would think that as much as I love technology, I’d be the first one to replace these old gadgets as soon as something newer and better came along; however, I tend to get a lot of mileage out of my electronic tools.  Especially because I prefer to use my $$ to buy bling and shoes.

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Well, lately I’ve noticed that the battery on my white cordless phone is just not what it used to be.  Despite replacing the batteries, I still wasn’t getting the talk time that a wordy person like me needs.

I’d spied a set of phones a month ago at Sam’s, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend my money on it.  Instead, I purchased a printer.

Priorities, people.

Well, those phones kept calling my name.

And so today, while at the store buying dog food, I caved…coming home with this…

Oh, be still my beating heart!!  I now have enough phones for every room in the house!  Once the base unit is plugged into the phone outlet, all you have to do is plug the other phones into electric outlets!  Who knew?!  In the old days, every additional phone had to have their own jacks.

You can customize ring tones for each receiver, set alarms, and even intercom each other.

This will cut down seriously on our texting each other across the house.

Yes, we’re too lazy to get up.

Don’t tell me that you don’t do the same thing.  You’d be lying.

So, I’m in techno-happy land.

Now, I’m eagerly awaiting the next telemarketer’s call.  After all, that’s about the only kind of calls I receive on the house phone these days.

I’ll be able to talk their ears off with new-fangled batteries!!

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