How to Save Space with Phone/Answering Combos?

Answer 1

Do you have too many gadgets taking up too much desk space or countertop space? If you have a landline corded phone and an old fashioned answering machine sitting on a tiny desk or small area of your limited countertops, you are wasting a lot of space. It is time to free up some space and start using new technology.

Buy yourself an up-to-date one unit system. With that you get a wall mounted base that holds a cordless telephone and it has a built in answering machine. You have to have a telephone jack plus an electrical outlet to use one of these phone/answering combos.

Let’s say you want to use it in the kitchen where you have an old fashioned, corded wall phone. That’s good, because behind the wall phone is a jack for the phone line. All you have to do is take that phone off the wall, which is easy to do. Next, unplug the telephone line from the jack.

Now you are ready to install your new phone/answering machine. It will come with a long and a very short telephone line. You need the very short piece; it is about 6 inches long. Plug that telephone line into the back of the base where indicate. Next plug the other end into the phone jack on the wall.

Once you do that, you only need to put the handset into the cradle of the base. It has to charge for several hours before you can use the phone. Once your phone has charged according to the directions, now you can set up the answering machine options. You just need to follow the directions you received with the machine. Each one is a little different, so I cannot tell you exactly how to set up yours. They are not difficult to do.

Once you do that, you are ready to make and receive calls, and your answering machine is ready when you aren’t around to answer.

Once you get used to having more space where the old answering machine sat, you will be sorry you didn’t replace the equipment sooner. Welcome to the world of phone/answering combos!