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Tip 121: The $5 Mobile Phone
Sunday, November 14, 1999
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PROBLEM: Hotel room telephones with short base cords often won’t reach the guest room desk, much less the sunny balcony outside where you really want to work.
SOLUTION: Pack a 30-foot extension phone cord, says Nick Allard of Garrett Park, Md. Lightweight (less than four ounces) and inexpensive (under $5 at electronics or hardware stores—ask for a “modular base cord”), the cords are easy to use: Unplug both ends of the existing short cord connecting the base of the phone to the wall jack and insert your replacement, reversing the process before checkout. Now you’re mobile, without roaming charges and all the privacy of a landline phone.
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