What’s your excuse?

[CluckinBell]

People have to remember some WG's text 'available' or pester after a potential meet/meet

[switftjake]

For work so customers dont have my personal number. Work too tight to buy us company phones so Bought sim and used old smart phone so I can keep work and personal life separate. Locked obviously for work security as sensitive customer emails and contact details. GDPR

Messaging apps set so don’t put notifies on lock screen an icons moved to hiddenfolders

[magnetico]

Hide it in plain sight UNLOCKED. This looks far less suspicious. Just remember to do a reset on the phone after each use and turn it off.

This is a good idea if he removes the SIM.

[Georgejetson]

The punt SIM, of the 2 SIM phone, will be Hidden far away, per the great recommendations here. Note ,  I am solving for;
1. OH is an amazing sleuth for physical things and clues (Sherlock Holmes level genius, yet NOT with any “cheating” suspicion, weirdly. . She just notices f-ing everything! )
2. Still refers to “the information super highway”. So at least 5 rungs below “clueless’ on cyber, internet,  and tech. Tech level “cognitive challenged”

I like the “if the car breaks down and the iPhone is dead” lie. Hadn’t thought of that.

[dismister]

Problem with "emergency phone" is what happens when her phone dies and she wants to use it.

Just say it's a work phone.  That gives plenty of reason for it to be locked and for nobody else to be able to use it.
Admittedly though this only works if you work for someone else; if you work for yourself it won't work.

[magnetico]

Problem with "emergency phone" is what happens when her phone dies and she wants to use it.

In this case the punting SIM is kept somewhere else and the phone can be kept unlocked with a non-punting SIM

[piotrskut]

In this case the punting SIM is kept somewhere else and the phone can be kept unlocked with a non-punting SIM

all the SIM stores is the phone no and access to the network, but the phone would still have text and/or dialling history so you’d need to wipe histories, which may raise eyebrows with Nancy Drew

[magnetico]

Obviously the SMS/dial history would be wiped, and no contacts saved on the phone itself.

But contacts can be saved on the punting SIM.

[TailSeeker]

all the SIM stores is the phone no and access to the network, but the phone would still have text and/or dialling history so you’d need to wipe histories, which may raise eyebrows with Nancy Drew

Well yes, but that's the same as your porn history on a shared computer. Keep the phone numbers on the sim, backup what you can to the sim, and wipe the phone on the regular. Some phones do offer the option to save messages to the sim card, especially old ones as they didn't have space on the phone itself.

[Sleet]

People have to remember some WG's text 'available' or pester after a potential meet/meet

That’s never happened to me, does this happen?

[magnetico]

That’s never happened to me, does this happen?

This has been reported around 1000 times on UKP.

Sometimes these messages are sent from new numbers as the WG changed numbers, so blocking numbers post-punt isn't working.

[Sedition]

Ever thought of just getting a divorce.   

That is the best post you’ve ever made.
 

[Williams56]

Why not stick it with the spare wheel in your car? Is she really going to go looking there?

Not punting but I had an affair once and kept a small box of things for our get togethers with the spare wheel, the affair ended and I removed them. A couple of weeks later I returned from walking the dog to find my step-son had been in the spare wheel well to borrow my jack, close call!

As for my phone, the few punts I make these days are usually planned ahead so I keep it in a drawer at work well away from home.

[sancho.panza]

I'm self employed so keeping my burner phone at my workshop which I am the only person to have access to makes it easy. Personally if I was as paranoid as the op, I would find somewhere to keep the phone the my other half had no access to - like in a locked drawer at work.

[Gordon Bennett]

Get a man-drawer full of chargers, leads, dead batteries, old SIMS and old phones etc Declare one of the phones to be a spare/reserve/emergency phone for holidays, festivals or such like. Nothing to stop you quietly fishing it out for punting purposes occasionally and very unlikely to arouse suspicion.
With that in mind, next time you upgrade keep the old one...... shouldn't be too hard to reach a situation whereby the man-drawer is brimming with phones.

[piotrskut]

sometimes I miss phone boxes 

[bigmc]

could you not leave it at work, in a drawer or locker  ?

[wristjob]

The downside to that approach is that it is too clever/calculated so would be difficult to defend...

....mine is simply that it's that old phone I bought (you remember?) when my main phone was playing up a couple of year ago .... oh, didn't I mention it to you....

No kidding. Hard to find but if she does it's curtains.

hide it in plain sight.

if youre anything like the rest of the population you've got a drawer in the kitchen full of miscelaneous crap, and a box somehere with a random assortment of old wires, USB cables, etc etc  surely everyone nowadays has enough old phones lying around the place that you could simply leave it in the drawer  or box with no fear

Yeah like the phone you had 7 years ago and forgot to throw away.

I would say 1st thing is take the sim out and hide that, got to be easier than hiding a whole phone. Buy a duffer off ebay like you used to have a few years back and leave it uncharged with no history in a drawer somewhere. Means you have to charge it up and dig out the sim when you need to use it then do a factory reset but small price to pay really.

You could always leave it in a locker in a gym or something and go collect it when you need it.

[Mickys1621]

hide it in plain sight.

if youre anything like the rest of the population you've got a drawer in the kitchen full of miscelaneous crap, and a box somehere with a random assortment of old wires, USB cables, etc etc  surely everyone nowadays has enough old phones lying around the place that you could simply leave it in the drawer  or box with no fear

That's what I do in plain sight can t be seen and if found easily explained as old phone

[ArtVandalay]

Tesco's sell a phone for £4.99 when bought with £10 of topup credit. You could literally buy the phone just for a single punt then bin it when finished

[timhorton]

I deliberately kept my old phone when I upgraded.  It was a bit battered so wouldn't realise any money really from a trade in.  On there I had started before switching the phone the Boombeach game - and so it was common for this to be on in my drawer and sometimes on my phone.  For some reason I can't transfer it (i.e. I didn't link it to my google account).  That way it sits in my bedroom drawer turned off, unless I'm just playing the game and so I can take it out as and when necessary.   As I wouldn't say I would punt often - i.e. not for a while, it hasn't aroused any suspicion.

[mrwhite]

In a drawer in the kitchen with about 4 other old phones that we don't use any more but that "might be useful one day" buried under half a dozen takeaway menus, about a dozen assorted screws, a few bottles of her old nail varnish that only go with one particular outfit, a tube of superglue, and a couple of packs of paracetamol.

[jimbobted]

I don't bother. Just use my normal phone and delete all contact details and messages after the event.
Not had any unsolicited coms and if I did and wifey noticed it would be pretty easy to pass off as a wrong number.

Got my Facebook etc set so that people can't find me via my phone number.

[Stiltskin]

In a drawer in the kitchen with about 4 other old phones that we don't use any more but that "might be useful one day" buried under half a dozen takeaway menus, about a dozen assorted screws, a few bottles of her old nail varnish that only go with one particular outfit, a tube of superglue, and a couple of packs of paracetamol.

Have you been going through my drawers?

[escortman]

I leave my phone in the car , in the boot under the spare tyre..


My Mrs only interested in sitting in the passenger seat.

[marlboro20]

Can't be arsed with a second phone... could create all sorts of problems. I use my regular phone and just delete all outgoing and incoming calls and texts daily. If it's not in my pocket... then it's turned off.

[anonymous86273]

I pay for a second number on my phone via a "2nd phone number" app so no need for hiding anything physical that could get found. All texts and calls go through the app, not your phone. I delete the app when not punting and just redownload when needed.

Plenty of apps out there on iPhone so assume probably Android aswell.....Ring4 is one.

[jeanphillipe]

I pay for a second number on my phone via a "2nd phone number" app so no need for hiding anything physical that could get found. All texts and calls go through the app, not your phone. I delete the app when not punting and just redownload when needed.

Plenty of apps out there on iPhone so assume probably Android aswell.....Ring4 is one.

this seems like a really good idea, i didnt realise such an app existed,  any particular app you would recommend?

[anonymous86273]

Second Phone Number was good but doesn’t (or didn’t at the time) give you a selection of available mobile (07) numbers - only 01 or 02 numbers.

I use Ring4 now. It’s free to try for 7 days. Afterwards it’s 99p to generate a number that lasts 7 days. Calls are free to receive but you pay to make them using app credits. You can pay a £10 flat fee for unlimited use.

[MrMatrix]

Keep it in the car as an emergency phone, in case your smartphone runs out of juice and you have an alternator or battery problem. Nokia batteries last months without a charge.
Maybe suggest she gets an emergency phone too.

But do make sure you remove all trace of use, incase she borrows your car and it does break down.

I keep mine in the car for emergency and have phoned the OH using it. Yes it surprised her but its typical of me to have a spare phone. I keep one in the sleeve of my laptop.
OP if she finds yours you are fucked as theres no excuse for it to be hidden. Hide it in an open space in a drawer with other old ones or personal briefcase or car. And delete everything

[itk]

hide it in plain sight.

if youre anything like the rest of the population you've got a drawer in the kitchen full of miscelaneous crap, and a box somehere with a random assortment of old wires, USB cables, etc etc  surely everyone nowadays has enough old phones lying around the place that you could simply leave it in the drawer  or box with no fear

Exactly the situation where my current phone is, an old shoe box at the top of the wardrobe filled with old chargers and cables. The SIM card is hidden in the tool kit which is in the shed where she never ventures.

[threechilliman]

Exactly the situation where my current phone is, an old shoe box at the top of the wardrobe filled with old chargers and cables. The SIM card is hidden in the tool kit which is in the shed where she never ventures.

Not sure I'd have put that out there......