Like another poster, I almost always have mine in my shirt pocket. I’m too vague to risk taking it out& putting it on a restaurant table or some other public place. (I would be guaranteed to forget it.)
At home I tend to carry it around with me. I have it in a red bump case which helps me spot it when about to leave home, and I’m thinking “Where’s my phone?”.
The landline is bundled with our internet. Otherwise I would probably cancel it. Hardly anyone calls us on that number. There was a rationale for keeping the landline on for emergencies, but now with the NBN (in Australia) a landline number is no longer linked to a physical location.
Partner’s sister found it where our car had been parked, so I’ll be getting it back in the mail.
Interestingly, I discovered I can use the previous lost (then found) phone, a Samsung Galaxy thingie, to authenticate from work despite the fact that the phone service was transferred to the other telelphone. So it’s a, umm, nonphone cellular device that can still connect to the WiFi and run apps, go figure. Perfect purpose for it.
This is almost exactly me. Except my phone sits on a Jonathan Adler ceramic old-fashioned phone like this:
If my sister goes grocery shopping, and I’m in the living room, I’ll take my phone with me, because she will call me about something I don’t care about, but I have to give her an opinion on.
I find it odd that some people find that odd. If it’s not on my desk in front of me, mounted on my car’s dash, or on my nightstand, it’s in my front shirt pocket.
I hate putting it into a pants pocket, and I am always wearing a shirt with a pocket.
I remember when I was a kid, my dad recommended that I not put things in my shirt pocket, as they can fall out if you are bending over. (He was a machinist, so I guess he was often squatting and bending.). For whatever reason that really stuck with me and I rarely use my shirt pocket for anything other than a pen with a clip, or maybe a note on a piece of paper.
How do you know your sister is grocery shopping? She calls you to tell you first so you’ll be on alert for later grocery advice? Or is she also your roomie?
Anything I put in a typical shirt pocket will have fallen out within the next 30 minutes when I bend over. Especially something as heavy & slick as a mobile phone. I buy all my non-work shirts without pockets exactly so I won’t be tempted to put stuff in there and then pitch that stuff onto the floor a few minutes later.
I usually have mine in my jeans pocket. But I bought a Pocket Plus for my mom to carry hers around with her since she’s always misplacing it. Works great.
If I’m away from the house or work and I’m carrying a purse, it’s in there. If not, it’s in my jacket/coat pocket. If I’m home or at work, it’s always right next to me.
Whereas i recently discovered the joys of a shirt pocket. Women’s shirts don’t usually have them, but I’ve been buying men’s shirts recently, and i love love love the option of a shirt pocket.
I don’t “store” anything more than a scrap of paper in my shirt pockets, but i put my cellphone there briefly all the time. Getting gas? Grab the phone from the car mount, put it in my shirt pocket. Reading my phone while waiting for the water to boil in the pasta, so i can turn down the temp…oops, it’s about to boil over, drop the phone in my shirt pocket and turn down the heat while lifting the lid.
Oh, but i also DO store scraps of paper in them. It’s the perfect place for the grocery list, or random receipts.
On the table next to where I usually sit. When I go out, it’s in the front pocket of my jeans. We finally gave up having a landline when we moved earlier this year, so it’s in a packing box somewhere awaiting recycling.
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