My brother and I have been on a family plan for a while now with our phones...the whole thing came about one time when his feet were bleeding and he couldn't get around much...I was out on the lawn washing linens and he was sitting on the recliner with his poultices on, and he needed me to come back in for something and I couldn't hear him...
so we eventually ran a series of strings around the house, each one pulled tight, and ending in a series of cans, labeled clearly for his use, each can ends in a different room in the house, so when we need to talk we can talk now...its a good system but often confusing...especially when the neighbors come calling...the almond-ey smell of the living room, where his recliner is, and the various strings make getting around kind of difficult...then again we don't have many guests since Uncle Reeg came over that one night...
we don't like to talk about that much...