I live on the same property my mum and family moved onto 43 years ago now, but we had to have the phone number changed once because the original one was a party line. About 30 years for the current number, I think. I’m the second owner.
I’ve had mine 13 or 14 years now. My mother’s is still the same after 53 years (two moves), except for when the phone company started requiring VIctor-2 in front of it.
We had that until just a few years ago here, too! Pissed me off when they changed it.
Then again, when they upgraded the equipment and eliminated that feature, it did bring high-speed internet access to my door.
Our current phone number has been in my SO’s family since 1958 or 1959. It was his parents number, and after his father died in 2000 my SO asked the phone company if our number sould be switched to that number. So 45-46 years. My parents have had the same number since before I was born, so it’s at least 39 years old. The area code has changed, but not the number.
My parents have had theirs for 10 or 11 years, some kind of family record. They took it with them 4 years ago when they moved into a new house a mile away. Someday it will probably be mine.
I’m still in school, and will be for a very long time, so I’ll be changing numbers every few months.
Eight weeks. Before that 7 years. Then 3 years. Then 5 months. Then 10 months. Then 22 months.
What can I say? I’m a mobile guy.
About four years for me, although I had the previous one for 27 years. Licence plates going on 32 years… 
My grandparents have had theirs since 1950: YOrktown4-xxxx. I changed the phone in their living room a few years ago and the old one still had YO4-XXXX written on the paper disc in the center of the dial. You could barely hear anything through it the diaghram was so stiff.
My dad has had the same mobile number since 1983. Kudos to anyone who can beat that!
I haven’t had a home phone number since 1999.
Can someone explain this? I’d never heard of it before.
My great grand-parents build thier house in 1903. We still have all the paperwork for that, and somewhere in the plans it includes wiring for a telephone. I don’t know enough about the history of phone numbers to know when they got an actual number as opposed to just asking the operator for ‘The Jones House’ or whatever, but my great aunt (born in 1915) remembered having the same four digits (which spell TUNA–causing many giggles) from childhood. When my great-grandfather died in 1957, my grandparents, and later my great aunt and uncle moved in to help great-grandmom out. They inherited the house (and this number) when she died. The neighborhood went downhill, the house was too big, and eventually they decided to sell the house and drive their RV around the country. (This was 1990 or so)
Everyone thought it was funny that despite all the exhchage names/numbers/area codes, etc, that had fluctuated over the years, TUNA (8862) had been in the family for somehting like 70 years at that point. So out of sentimentality they moved the number to thier daughter’s house, and it was used by my 2nd cousin (their kid) as her private line up until she went to college 2 years ago. I think there’s a modem on it now, but mom assures me TUNA is still hooked up, and still registered to the same family that installed it’s line 101 years ago.
Other people have usefull heirlooms. We have a phone number.
My parents’ house has had the same number since they moved in, in 1957. But they’re selling it now, so I don’t know what will happen to that number.
I was born the next year. I recently found a copy of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, which I must have owned somewhere around 1966-68, and was surprised to find that I had written my phone number in it as CR5-####. So people were still using letter phone numbers by that time.
Telephone exchanges (the first two or three digits of a phone number) were originally given names instead of numbers. The first two letters of the exchange name were the same as the numbers they correspond with on the modern phone dial - PLaza = 75, SYcamore = 79, etc. Back In The Day, you would pick up your phone and tell the operator you wished to be connected with, say, KLondike 42. (Phone numbers weren’t always 7 digits, either, by the way.) After some time in the '50s or '60s you’d be dialing instead of speaking with an operator, but phone numbers were still generally listed (as in my 1960 phone book) PL5-3297 instead of 755-3297.
Incidentally, you ALWAYS capitalize the first two letters of an exchange name to make it obvious that those are the two letters that must be dialed.
WHY were there exchange names? I’m not sure. As a mnemonic device, I suppose. Sometimes exchanges corresponded with existing neighborhood names; I know in one town near where I grew up, the exchange was the name of a major street (I can’t remember what, right at the moment); the exchange for Pleasantville, NY was once PLeasantville.
For more information see The Telephone EXchange Name Project
I like to give my phone number out with exchange name.
My parents have had their number for roughly 24 years. It moved with them in 1991. Circa 1996 the area code changed, but their number remains the same.
Phones weren’t all that common around here when I was a kid. When I was born, my father used a pay phone to call neighbours of my grandmother to tell them of my arrival. As they were the only family in the area with a phone, they were used to taking messages and passing them along. My grandmother got her phone around 1981 I guess, and still has the same number. My other grandparents got their phone around the same time, and had the number until January, when Grandfather moved into a nursing home.
My parents got their number when my brother was a newborn. The day they had it installed, they told my uncle and gave him the number. Just a couple of hours later, they got a phone call. My father couldn’t believe that their first call was a wrong number, and said to Mum “I bet that was Trevor (his brother). You watch, the phone will ring again” and sure enough it did. This time he answered the phone “Diggle’s Mortuary, you kill 'em, we chill 'em”, and the guy on the other end said “Damn! Wrong number again!”.
My parents were married June 26, 1954. They immediately moved into a tiny little 3 room house with no indoor plumbing. Their telephone number was OLfield 9 -XXXX.
50 years later they’re still married, the house has been expanded many times over, plumbing was added in 1954 (after my mother went through being pregnant with my brother and NOT having indoor plumbing), and the telephone number is stil OLdfield 9- XXXX.
My parents just had to change their number after 29 years (new phone/internet service) and I’m near-inconsolable. 
I guess it would have been PRimrose5-2482, if they’d still been using exchanges when we first moved out here.
I had my own private line for 13 years; FLoral Park4-8518.
I still remember my paternal grandparents’ number in Brooklyn - ESplanade2-2736. I don’t remember my childhood Brooklyn phone number, but I still remember theirs.
can’t beat the OP (i’ve had my mobile # for just under a year).
but i did have the area code change 4 times in one year on my old phone number. damn southern california population flux.
I’ve had this number for 13 years and still people want to talk to Gladys. I ain’t no Gladys!
My mother has had her number for almost 58 years now. Five years ago she got a new phone with caller id and an answering machine! Woohoo mom!
I’ve had my current phone number (same area code and everything) for 20 years. My parents had theirs for 25 years, but Mrs. Kunilou’s parents have had their’s (albeit with a different area code) for about 45 years.
The truly amazing thing is that Mrs. Kunilou has had the same cell phone number for 10 years now.
Does she still lease it from the phone co? We bought our house from the son of the original owner. He had grown up there. When his mother died, he rented it to one of her friends. He continued to pay for the phone. So the number hadn’t changed since 1942.
When we had our phone installed, we wanted to keep the old black dial phone left behind, but it belonged to the phone co. It had been leased all those years.
Your door has high-speed internet access??