Saving Money With Walkie Talkies

Ms_Chocaholic

MrsStepford said:

Our cell phones are on contract with EE. Not particularly good and expensive, in my view.

Husband went to pick up kebabs and used walkie talkie to tell me he was on way back and it was crystal clear. 

Another useful feature is that there's a direct emergency channel, so if we had a power cut and no landline (happened during a minor earthquake) we could summon help.

Hello

As this is a moneysaving forum, I'm not sure the purchase of the walkie talkies was very moneysaving.  Also you may want to consider looking at your mobile phone deals to see when your contract ends and switching to a cheaper supplier.  In terms of emergencies, you're mobiles would work.

Ms Choc

weenancyinAmerica

My understanding is that mobiles only work as long as they can be charged even for emergency calls. Is that true over there as well? Can the walkie-talkies be used if there is no power to recharge them if you  use solar batteries? Just asking for the emergency prep value.

oldernonethewiser

weenancyinAmerica said:

My understanding is that mobiles only work as long as they can be charged even for emergency calls. Is that true over there as well? Can the walkie-talkies be used if there is no power to recharge them if you  use solar batteries? Just asking for the emergency prep value.

No power = no work

Doesn't matter whether it is a phone or walkie talkie if the battery is flat.

I have a battery pack to charge my phone if away from mains electricity for long periods of time and it would be useful in the advent of a power cut at home.

Don't see any old style money saving in buying extra communications devices.

JIL

I have a mobile phone that costs £7 per month on a contract, including data and free texts. 
It's small and lightweight. 
I can text, I can play games if I'm waiting about. I can use it to find out where I am. I can phone loads of people if I needed to.
It's got my nectar card, asda card, tesco card etc on it.
It's got a record of my appointments in the diary.
It's got a notepad facility, I use often.

All for £7 per month. No way would I be carrying a walkie talkie.  Over.

CouldntResist

Has anyone else done this? I might hazard a guess that in 2024 you are one of a handful of people who would do this...

How exactly was this saving you money? Sounds like a solution in search of a problem....

MrsStepford

Have been nagging husband for weeks about EE and VirginMedia as both are out of contract. He finally took some notice today. He ditched VirginMedia and renegotiated EE to include ultrafast broadband and unlimited minutes. The savings he made, pay for the walkie talkies.