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<\/a><\/p>\nImage credit: Sarah B Brooks on Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Everyone must know that you have lost your phone, even if you haven\u2019t spoken to them in years. Commandeer the nearest computer (knock on people\u2019s doors if you have to) and use every means necessary to tell people that you won\u2019t be contactable today. Their hearts will be broken, but they\u2019ll understand.<\/p>\n Image credit: StockMonkeys.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n You\u2019ve got no calls, no texts and no social media. How on earth are you supposed to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues?<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy! There are loads of alternatives, including: smoke signals, carrier pigeons, letters, Morse code, throat singing, sonar, messages in bottles, planes with messages tied to the back, sky writing, telegram, and actually visiting your friends and talking to them face-to-face.<\/p>\n Or you could go with our personal favourite, the text-to-landline, in which a robot reads out your friend\u2019s text messages to you via your landline. It\u2019s literally minutes of fun.<\/p>\n Image credit: Jessica Spengler on Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s amazing how much time checking Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr and Tinder, playing endless amounts of free games and generally browsing the infinite pages of the internet actually takes up.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll suddenly find yourself with a lot of time and nothing to do, especially at lunch time. It\u2019s the perfect excuse to take up a hobby, like line dancing, calligraphy or stamp collecting (or you could use the time to declutter and sell stuff with musicMagpie<\/a>), although you probably won\u2019t have much time to get good at it.<\/p>\n Eventually, you\u2019ll be so consumed by your new hobby that you\u2019ll forget that smartphones actually exist, although it does mean you\u2019ll be in exactly the same situation if ever happen to lose whatever it is you need to pursue your hobby. Ah well.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an actual thing<\/a>. You might be going mad, but don’t worry because everyone else is too.<\/p>\n Count the amount of times you check your phone every day. Now count how many times something important happened.<\/p>\n Yep, thought so. Statistically, you\u2019re not going to miss anything so stop panicking.<\/p>\n Have you got any top tips for someone surviving without their smartphone? Let us know on Facebook<\/a> or Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n And this post has somehow managed to convince that life without a smartphone is the way to go, you can always sell your smartphone with musicMagpie<\/a>!<\/p>\n
\nStep 3: Draw up contingency plans for communication<\/h4>\n
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\nStep 4: Use your time to do other stuff<\/h4>\n
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\nStep 5: Don\u2019t worry about the phantom vibrations<\/h4>\n
\nStep 6: Remember: nothing important will happen<\/h4>\n
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