[jeffmould]

Outside friends, family and a few important contacts (i.e. kids schools, doctors, etc...), I don't give my actual phone number out. I use Google Voice with message/call forwarding turned off. If I need to give my number out to a company or something I use that number. Really the only other companies that legitimately should have my number are my bank(s) and credit card company. They can call, leave a message, and I will call them back. Everything else gets pretty much deleted. If I notice the number of spam calls increasing (rarely) I just change the Google Voice number (probably have only done this 2-3 times) and update those who had it accordingly.

I used to carry a secondary phone that I would use for non-life-critical contacts, but have since stopped carrying that phone, although I still keep basic service active on it.