I have a specific reason for it and the secondary reason is to start fresh with a new number...a good way of discarding people/contacts and not being visible to them anymore. The tertiary reason is fucken spam calls!
Way to handle the old flame call...lucky you're not paying child payments for the next 15 years too!
If you ever change numbers, might I suggest you retain your old on (in an old phone) for a little while during the swap over...it'll save you a lot of angst.
Yeah I liked that strategy you had, keeping the old one for even a month or two to get things swapped over before cutting it.
My wife gets far more spam calls than I do, she gets them multiple times per day. I am much more restricted with where I give my number and I think that's helped. She signs up for every fucking reward program under the sun lol
My problem was that my old number was the one I used for work for many years and that meant years of spammers and scammers like Nigerian Princes knowing it. I don't know how many times I was declared the sole heir to a billion dollars or a castle estate in fucken Scotland...Anyway, so far I've had none on my new number. I'm sure they'll find me though.