How did we EVER manage?

Last week I realized our home phone wasn't working. I called AT&T and surprisingly enough, they weren't too helpful. I could pay $55 for someone to come look at it or...figure it out myself. So after trying every phone jack in the house Mike suggested we try a different phone. What a brilliant idea:)

I went to Target in search of the cheapest phone I could find...perfect--a $7 phone. Did you know they still make phones that have cords?! Sure enough, the phone worked!

Now came the funny part...living with a corded phone! My kids looked at it like it was from the "olden days". Jordan picked it up to use it and said "how do you turn this on?", Tyson just left it laying on the floor thinking it was hung up, and Kya had no idea how to talk on the phone without walking all over the house. For me it's just impractical...when do I have time to sit in one place and do nothing but talk on the phone?! It makes me think back to the "olden days" and my LONG phone conversations (mostly from my youth).

A cordless phone is just one of the very small luxuries we have today, which makes me think "how did we ever manage?"

(Me on the phone at college--notice the red cord?)