Using a Cell Phone as a Home Phone

We just have no home phone and no land line

My wife has a cell, I have a cell. The old "business" line (that has a "landline" number) is actually a cell phone that exists in a drawer, and rolls to my wife's cell. We have a land line at one of our businesses, because one employee has no cell phone.

We briefly had a cable phone, when, for the price of internet only, they gave us internet, phone, and tv. It was okay, but does not have the main advantage of a land line (works when the power is off). We just did not miss the home phone. And we now have only over the air TV and internet options.

I considered setting the "drawer" phone as an outgoing call phone using one of the Verizon options like your link. But there was a cost, and we decided no.

Have not actually used a device like the one you linked.

Those things work OK, but here's the problem as I see it, and why we have a Comcast phone....

I want some people to call the home phone and leave their messages there. I do not want calls from plumbers and other maintenance people on my cell phone when I am at work. It is impossible for me to ignore a call from an unknown number, because all of my customers show up as unknown numbers when they call from their cell or from their desk phone with a different caller ID than the number I use to reach them.

My wife doesn't need to be bothered by strangers when she is teaching school. Her friends know when she is available and when she is not.

I don't mind people calling the home phone. I can ignore it if I wish, and I can check the voicemail when I get around to it.

It just occurred to me that my Comcast phone is similar to the e-mail address I use when I need one for various websites that I may never visit again, but still need to get an e-mail once. That extra e-mail address is one I only check from a PC, and do not have it show up on my phone. I can get the call eventually, but it doesn't require my immediate attention.

Oops. I didn't realize that my wife had signed on - that was my post above!