How Many Phone Numbers Do You Know By Memory?

Today, I'm going to sit down with my cell phone and copy all the phone numbers into my Date Book. That's where I keep all my important information on just about everything. User names and passwords for various sites are all in my Date Book. I don't memorize phone numbers like I used to do before cell phones.

@IreneVincent As I said, I have enough trouble trying to remember ours.

@Marty1 Vince is the only one who uses ours and even that is not very often as we have a landline. So I have a bit of an excuse for not remembering the number.

@IreneVincent I always sport mine to a CSV file. This stores the numbers, but has the annoying habit of splitting each contact into an entry for landline and another for mobile.

@Asylum That sounds complicated to me. I'm not very technologically savvy.

Yep! Just go to CONTACTS and select a name. No need to memorize phone #s anymore. But, just in case, I'm going to take the time to transfer all my phone numbers from my phone to my Date Book, which is where I keep all my important information. I will also UPDATE my cell phone list, because some people have changed their numbers or moved away.

@IreneVincent I have a small phone book. My close friends´ phone numbers are in the last page.

Memorizing all the numbers in my phone would be quite a feat, so instead, I'm going to copy them into my Date Book, where I keep all my other important information. You are right! People move and numbers change.

I know what you mean. Almost everyone is giving me the same answer. We all have our "contacts" in our cell phones now. But, I'm going to copy them all sometime today to my Date Book, just in case.

I know very few by heart anymore. It's SAD how much I depend on my cell phone. I'm going to copy all the phone numbers into my Date Book today. Then, I will have them, just in case.

@IreneVincent

I'm getting the same answers from almost everyone. We just put the numbers into our cell phones and forget about them. I'm going to have a new project of transferring all the phone #s in my cell phone to another place, just in case.

@IreneVincent there are just so many numbers to remember these days that it is not worth remembering them haha though I would like to have a little address book with people's numbers in it.

@IreneVincent that phone in the picture was our first telephone

@hereandthere Yep! Ours also. My aunt, however, had one much older than that one. It was wood and hung on the wall with a handle on the side to ring for the operator. I remember it well.

Me too. I still remember the phone # we had when I was a teenager. That was before DIAL phones. Yikes! I'm telling my age.

It's crazy! I suppose if the cell phone technology FAILS in some way, we will all be in bad shape. I have heard that this is a REAL possibility, what with all the hackers out there. So, I'm copying all my phone #s into my DATE Book, but...on the other hand. If the system fails, then numbers won't matter, will they???

I USED to be a telephone # person, but since I got used to my cell phone, I don't tax my brain to remember phone #s anymore. I'm going to copy them into my Date Book though, just in case.

@IreneVincent I have a couple of debit cards. It mortifys me when every so often I slip a cog and get a code number wrong- I'm at the check out line, folks waiting on me. Oh God help me please.

Passwords are another thing. You are right! There are so many things we need to remember, that when we don't NEED to remember, because the numbers are in our cell phone, we definitely forget phone #s. I have so many passwords and user names to remember. I had to write them all down in one place.

@sallypup It can make a person anxious. I don't possess a credit card. If I want to order something on line, I get my son to order it, using his card and I give him cash. My philosophy is: No credit card = no credit card debts. I am debt-free and I like it that way.

Good for you! It's always best to have a back-up list, just in case. That's why I'm going to copy all the phone #s I have in my cell phone to my Date Book, which is where I keep other important information. I'm surprised that I haven't already done that. But, this post brought it to my attention.

@IreneVincent Better now than never. You don't want to wind up with an "Oops" moment.

Funny you should mention old home phone numbers. I still remember the phone # we had when I was a teenager. Now, I'm talking really OLD. This was before we had DIAL telephones. Whoa!!!

I know! It's ridiculous that I depend so much on the data in my cell phone. I'm going to take the time today to copy all the phone #s into my Date Book. I keep all my other important information there. I just have this fear that I will lose my phone or somehow lose all those phone numbers.

That's the same answer I'm getting from almost everyone. I think I will copy all of the phone #s from my cell phone contact list to my Date Book, which is where I keep all my other important information, just in case.

I'm still working on writing down all the phone numbers that are in my cell phone. I hope to get it done today. I've got several more numbers to go, but I did work on it some yesterday.

@lookatdesktop I agree 100%. I think we are headed for a computerized crash and it will not be pretty, when it happens.

You are right! We all depend on our cell phones to keep track of phone #s. It's not like it used to be. I'm going to copy all the phone #s in my cell phone to another source, just in case. It will be a new project for me today.

@IreneVincent Really that is the best thing to do. Keep written record of all contacts, names, addresses, numbers faxes, mobiles and landlines because some day you may be in a situation where all you have is that book to refer to. I think it is a very good thing to keep written records of all important things like these and also user accounts, passwords, and all the toll free numbers associated with all of my online accounts, just in case I need to get hold of one of them if my computer were to crash or need repair so I could cancel accounts by phone or by snail mail. You can never be too careful.

Yes, I think we should have the phone #s in at least TWO different places. I was thinking about all those people who have been displaced from their homes, by forest fires, floods, earthquakes etc. They probably lost their cell phones, I'm sure. Of course, a person might just lose their cell phone by laying it down somewhere so I think I will copy the #s on my cell phone to my Date Book, which is where I keep a lot of important information.

I did manage to get about half of the numbers recorded in my Date Book today. Since I couldn't get online, I had some time to do it. But I only got to the letter K, so I have quite a few more to write down. I don't know what is going on with our Wifi service. It's about to drive me crazy. And to think about how much it costs every month. It's ridiculous that we don't get better service.

I used to be good at numbers, like I said. But now, I'm like most everyone else. I just put the numbers in my cell phone contact list and forget about them. I think I will copy them to another place today.