Do you sleep with the phone in your room ?

[suejai]

When DH is away I have the cordless and my cell under DH's pillow. When he is home I leave my phones in the living room, although DH usually has his next to the bed.

 

[Deb in IA]

Yes.

Between DH and me, we are on call about 9 months out of the year, so we have to answer when the hospital calls at night.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Yes we have a landline in our room. I am too paranoid not to have it there just in case something happened to my family or my DH's family.

My nephew has epilepsy and I would never want to miss a call if he had to go to the hospital. When he goes to the hospital we spilt up, one goes to the hospital with my sister and my nephew and the other goes to watch his twin sister. Because of this I will probably never get rid of my landline and also because I am too afraid that we would be without power and my cell battery would be dead and no way to charge it besides in the car. I need some way for them to get a hold of me.

 

[momof1princess]

OMG are you serious?? I would be VERY cranky if anyone called me and woke me up at 430 every day! Can't he just shut the alarm off himself without having to wake you up to do it???

lol, well, he rotates shifts, so he doesn't work nights every week, and unfortunately, no, he can't turn it off himself, because it's across the house from the door he comes in and out of, and on the other side of DD's bedroom wall, so the screeching would surely wake her up before he could get to it. i'd rather he wake me up than her. i wake up about 5 am anyway.

 

[MerMom60_94]

I'm really surprised by the number of people who don't have a phone next to the bed or who have the ringer turned off. I have the phone next to the bed with the ringer turned up in case there is ever an emergency. Maybe this comes with having elderly parents. We have been known to get called to the hospital in the middle of the night. Both mothers live alone now and I know my mother carries her phone around with her so she can call for help if she ever is sick or has a fall. My brother or I would be the logical people to notify if 911 is ever called. Also, DH is a firefighter and works 24 hour shifts. If something happened to him at work I would want to hear the phone.

 

[minkydog]

We have a phone next to our bed. OP, I'm curious--how old is your son and why is he getting calls after 10? We had the same problem when our son was in HS and we quickly put a stop to that. The first couple times we told the friends no calling after 10. When is kept happening, we started grounding DS. The midnight calling stopped almost immediately and had never been a problem since. In fact, my DD16 got a load of that punishment and it has NEVER been a problem with her friends.

 

[disney1990]

With 2 "grown" daughters, an 87 year old Mom and a 89 year old father-in-law, yes I sleep with a landline on in our bedroom. The cellphones are also on, but they are down the hall in the living room.

 

[C.Ann]

Yes, I have a landline phone next to my bed. The ringer is off - it's only for dialing out. I feel safer with it there.

Same here..

 

[Kath2003]

I sleep with my cell phone next to me. My boyfriend does the same. A few years ago he woke up with a guy in his room robbing him so we're a bit cautious since - unfortunately at the time he stole my boyfriends phone before he woke up though!

 

[AshleyW]

I have my cell phone within an arm's reach of my bed every night. I use it as an alarm clock, plus I leave the volume loud in case someone calls. I don't have a land line, so if someone calls in the middle of the night because of an emergency, I want to hear it.

 

[Ephany]

We have a landline for the alarm, but no one really has the number so they call my cell if they need me. I keep that phone off in the bedroom; the other day I laid down for 1/2 an hour and the landline rang 7 times in 30 minutes! 4 calls were from telemarketers and the other 3 were DH freaking because I didn't immediately answer a text on my cell. He's horrible about answering his phone or texts so I don't know why he was so frantic to get a hold of me, we usually only talk once a day if he's out of state on a job and I'm usually in class at that time anyway so I wouldn't pick up. I'm convinced that somehow he knew I was trying to nap, but he swears not. I keep my cell phone on my night stand just in case, but on vibrate.

 

[maelstrom]

I keep my cell phone next to my bed when I'm sleeping. There's a landline phone in my room but I ignore it entirely; we only have a landline because the DSL and satellite require it.

 

[watersbland]

We don't have a land line anymore either. Each of us has a night stand on our side of the bed and our cell phones get tossed onto them when we go to bed. We always leave our phones on just in case someone needs us in an emergency. And even though we have an alarm clock, DW insists on using her cellphone for an alarm.

 

[MichelleVW]

My landline is in my room so that is always on- my cell I shut off when I get home from work- if anyone wants me badly enough they have to call my home number.

When people want to call me they have to dial the cell.....I don't think many of my friends/family even know my land line number!!

I'm really surprised by the number of people who don't have a phone next to the bed or who have the ringer turned off. I have the phone next to the bed with the ringer turned up in case there is ever an emergency. Maybe this comes with having elderly parents. We have been known to get called to the hospital in the middle of the night. Both mothers live alone now and I know my mother carries her phone around with her so she can call for help if she ever is sick or has a fall. My brother or I would be the logical people to notify if 911 is ever called. Also, DH is a firefighter and works 24 hour shifts. If something happened to him at work I would want to hear the phone.

I agree....my phone doesn't ring at night, but you never know when an emergency will come up and someone needs to get a hold of you. Some things aren't even major emergencies, but a few weeks ago they had a bunch of people call in sick at work so they called me about 6:45 in the morning to see if I could come in early. If I didn't have the phone by my bed I would have missed the call. Not that I would have been fired or anything for not answering the phone, but I would have felt bad for leaving them short.

I keep my cell phone next to my bed when I'm sleeping. There's a landline phone in my room but I ignore it entirely; we only have a landline because the DSL and satellite require it.

Same here...I hate my land line. We all have cell phones and no one calls for us on the land line!

We don't have a land line anymore either. Each of us has a night stand on our side of the bed and our cell phones get tossed onto them when we go to bed. We always leave our phones on just in case someone needs us in an emergency. And even though we have an alarm clock, DW insists on using her cellphone for an alarm.

Yesterday we had a power outage at 4 a.m but DH's alarm still went off because he uses his cell phone as an alarm!!

 

[bigbabyblues]

Landline phone in the bedroom with the ringer on. DH has his cell on the nightstand for an alarm clock, but cell service is spotty here, so if someone calls, they pretty much have to call the landline.

 

[krcit]

I sleep with my cell on next to the bed...my dh is a LEO so it he has to be near a phone 24-7.

I read this and thought what does her DH being a Leo(having an August birthday) have to do with anything? Then I realized what it meant...and my DH is a cop