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[MineralMan]

My wife and I decided to buy a set of new cordless phones for our land line POTS service. No big deal...lots of great bargains on Amazon for these, so we ordered a set of four...just $59, and the base unit is also an answering machine. But, then, we always keep one phone that doesn't use electricity, and that one was getting kinda funky and sometimes had a hum in it. It's an old princess phone, and it was time to replace it, too.

Off I went to eBay. And there it was. A beige ITT touchtone phone, new in its box and dating back to 1967, when touch-tone phones were pretty new. Brand new old stock. Now, why that was never taken out of its box I have no idea, but there it was and at a great price. So, that one's on its way here, too.

I also have an old oak wall farm phone connected to the POTS line, along with a 1930s candlestick rotary dial phone hooked up as well, but those won't do for times when a guy needs a touch-tone phone. So, what to replace that old Princess phone with? I like talking on the old oak phone. It's on the wall next to the kitchen door at our house, with an old stool in front of it, just like in the 1890s. The candlestick phone sits on a vintage telephone chair with attached table. I use that one occasionally, too, when I call my parents.

POTS lines are still a good thing to maintain. If the power goes out, the phone lines are still often still working, so you can call the electric company to report your outage or 911 to report whatever else is an emergency. I know lots of people have abandoned their POTS line, but I'm not ready to do that, even though we both have cell phones.

Lots of nice new phone equipment out there, if you want to hang onto your POTS line. So, here's a Poll:

Do you still maintain a POTS (Plain old telephone service) landline?

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	Yes, I have a POTS landline.
	16 (55%)
	No, I don't have a POTS landline.
	13 (45%)
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	0 (0%)
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