143: Getting Rid of Our Smartphones . . . for good! (How it's been going

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today we are talking about what convinced us to be an iphone-free family and how that practically looks for us on a day-in and day-out basis!

Because social media is a leg of our business, we talk a lot about the different factors that influenced us via apps.

But in this podcast Elisha touches on some of the other reasons he got rid of his phone a year and a half ago . . . even after he deleted his personal social media accounts!

Youtube. Random Google searches. The weather. Tasks. Reminders. Email. Blurry work/home boundaries. Sports team updates. Being constantly accessible by everyone and everything at ANYTIME . . . it's not a part of our life anymore.

I'm so thankful for the new rest and peace we didn't think was possible in a 21st century home, and we're excited to continue questioning "necessary evils" and determine if they are truly necessary.

Of course, smartphones have greatly blessed us as tools and resources (we have no personal convictions against technology) and they may be in our home again in the future.

But we found the ability to efficiently and instantly shop, research, communicate and interact with the entire world in the cracks of our day became more of a curse than a blessing.

So far, intentionality and a slower pace of life has only enriched our home.

We are thankful for fewer options, decisions, distractions, and opinions in 2022.

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0:00.0	Folks, we made a practical change in our life.
0:03.6	We changed something that, at times, was a blessing and an asset and a tool, but when
0:10.0	we evaluated from the most objective perspective that we could find ourselves in, we realized
0:16.4	that the cons actually outweighed the pros, and so we got rid of our smartphones altogether.
0:23.4	We are smartphone-free home, and I'm so proud of Katie because she made this goal, and
0:30.3	she'll tell you about it, but she made this goal about eight months ago, and I don't
0:35.5	know if I believed that she was going to be able to accomplish it.
0:38.7	I don't know if anybody that she told this goal to you, I don't know if anybody believed
0:44.0	that Katie was going to be able to do it, but sure enough, we did it.
0:47.9	So we're going to tell you about that, we're going to tell you why we've done it, how
0:51.7	we've done it in a practical way, and pretty much do those things.
0:56.5	Okay, we'll get going now.
0:58.7	Today, we're going to talk about not having a smartphone.
1:08.9	We're just going to dive right in because this is something that Alisha's been doing
1:13.8	for a long time.
1:14.8	You haven't had a smartphone for a year and a half?
1:18.1	Yeah, it's been, I guess it's been a year and a half.
1:20.5	Wow, yeah.
1:21.5	Yeah, a year and four months, a year and five months, something like that.
1:24.6	Which is kind of crazy, and I never really thought it would be possible for me to not have
1:30.1	a smartphone as long as we were doing business online.
1:32.8	I felt like we'd at least have to have one in our home because Alisha would still use
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