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In reply to the discussion: I must now be officially OLD!! [View all]

Aussie105

(6,667 posts)
9. Ah, the good old days!
Tue Mar 15, 2022, 08:02 PM
Mar 2022

Checking your bank account, working out which bills needed paying, writing the checks, finding envelopes and stamps, making sure the right check goes into the right envelope, licking stamps, hating the taste of the glue, driving down to mail them.

Now, 10 minutes on the computer pays the bills, instantly.

Seems like a lost art, writing checks. (Thank goodness!)

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I must now be officially OLD!! [View all] sinkingfeeling Mar 2022 OP
Let us know which care home you wind up in, sinkingfeeling True Dough Mar 2022 #1
I'll bring tea and cookies irisblue Mar 2022 #2
Years ago Rebl2 Mar 2022 #3
LOLOLOL! elleng Mar 2022 #4
Auto pay will help w/ that. Deuxcents Mar 2022 #5
I autopay everything Freddie Mar 2022 #8
My sewer and Rebl2 Mar 2022 #11
Me, too...my mortgage n credit card gets a check Deuxcents Mar 2022 #14
I pay those automatically with eft. trof Mar 2022 #18
Extra Nanuke Mar 2022 #15
Don't feel bad! Diamond_Dog Mar 2022 #6
Old is piddyprints Mar 2022 #7
Ah, the good old days! Aussie105 Mar 2022 #9
His home? LakeArenal Mar 2022 #10
Good one! Rebl2 Mar 2022 #12
Tell him you will mail the application. keithbvadu2 Mar 2022 #13
ALL of my bills are either auto pay or PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2022 #16
That is old Maine Abu El Banat Mar 2022 #17
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