How can you recieve text messages on home phones?

I only ask because I've just ordered something from a store and they told me that they would text me when it arrived in store. Then I told them that I had entered a home number into the computer and the girl who was serving me gave me a strange look and told me that homephones can recieve text messages too! Can they?!

Hmmm I dont think home phones can. thats kinda weird for her to say that.

No home phones can not recieve texts. The girl at the storee must have been mistaken, unless this is some new thing I have never heard of!!

yes you can get a text message on your home phone some how people can do it . I have gotten one. Like, It wasnt text its a machine telling you the text and then tells you all the numbers it was from or forwarded to

Write a text on your mobile, send it to a landline. Costs the same as your standard network rate. Works a treat.