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Call the operator. I dont even remember when phone operators became a thing of the past. Maybe when phone booths went away? I took my 8 yr old niece and her friend to lunch today. There was a phone on the wall from the 1900s. They asked me how it worked without numbers, I told them back then you had to dial the operator to put your call through. The looks on their faces was priceless. My niece finally said,Im glad there are no more operators. Im not a baby, I can make a call myself
Skittles
(153,150 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,123 posts)That looked painful
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I suppose that I watched adults dialing phone numbers when I was a small child in the 60's, but spinning the dial all the way around to the finger-stopper never seemed like a hard concept to me.
What makes it seem more strange is that they spun it around for SOME numbers, but not others!
For any young people here:
Instructional video for rotary phones (except you need to keep the receiver lifted while you do it):
Years later, most people only had dial-up internet too. There was usually an option to dial the number using pulse (the click sounds from a rotary phone), or tone (the sounds from a push-button phone).
Here's the sounds using the tone option:
Skittles
(153,150 posts)I never used one of these but I saw enough in movies so I would know how to use it.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... showing people dialing rotary phones.
Or maybe they never watch anything old? I used to have a coworker, only about 10 years younger than me, who REFUSED to watch anything filmed in black-and-white! He told me that after I let him borrow my copy of "Dr. Strangelove". He returned the CD to me the next day, saying that he stopped watching it the instant he saw it was a B&W film! Lol... wtf.
Rotary phones were around long after colorized film, of course, but maybe some younger people refuse to watch anything that looks like it was made pre-2000 or whatever?
Skittles
(153,150 posts)I am guessing with the internet and all options for watching new stuff, old TV and movies just are no longer that appealing to the newer generations. A shame, really, because I think it broadens the, er, horizons.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Then we subscribed to Pipeline that was still dial up. Ka-boing-ka-boing.
Too slow? Get a bigger pipe!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... text-based system in the early-90's, but I can't remember the terminology or what I did to make the connection from my computer at home! That system seemed pretty useless to me overall, other than acquiring some information from some professors.
I think AOL was my first dial-up ISP, but I'm not sure if that's true either. The technological options were changing so quickly back then, it's hard for me to remember those details!
I remember that Netscape was my browser of choice in those days.
Edit:
I had to search for Pipeline, not remembering that option for me. Was it mostly only available in New York?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pipeline
eleny
(46,166 posts)I still miss it since it gave many more pages of options than Google.
I only used the dial up bb's at home. No computers or net at work. My brother started the first bulletin board for poetry and that opened up the world of boards to me. Then we got into the more advanced text based experience with our Radio Shack machine (lol).
At some point we had a Commodore Amiga with the computer in the keyboard. I can still recall the excitement.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I surely had to connect to a server at my university through a phone line, but I don't recall what I did at all!
Then I'd see options for Usenet, the World Wide Web, etc.
I wasn't a participant in bulletin boards at all, I guess. Most of my text-based communications over the internet came later, after it looked much more like the early days of DU (for example).
I majored in math and physics, and I took about half a dozen computer programming courses back then (Fortran, Pascal, C/C++). Despite how the programming classes were easy to me, I had some feelings of animosity towards the internet and the rapid changes in computer technology in general. It was like I struggled to see the forest from the trees, and I wanted to have a better idea of where it was headed!
Computers were only useful for calculations, and an occasional game (not online) for me in the early days.
Archae
(46,323 posts)There were two forums I enjoyed a lot, "Politics," (this was during the Bill Clinton years,) and the "Religious Food Fight" called "Holysmoke."
It could get really wild in Holysmoke, particularly when the fundamentalist "Christians" showed up, usually to push creationism.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Archae
(46,323 posts)I got up to 56000 baud before going to cable Internet.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Now in retirement, from time to time, we talk about how hardware that took two guys to carry back in the day had far less capacity than thumb drives of today. Just as baud from way back can be compared to lightening fast cable of today - that we still complain about sometimes for being too slow.
Your old baud rates sound familiar but I'm too old to remember ours, lol!
Stinky The Clown
(67,792 posts)They could only have one user connected at a time. Our screaming machine was a Commodore 64 with a tape drive and soon after a 5¼" floppy drive.
Silent3
(15,206 posts)...behind the scenes.
Where we're now used to the idea of things like routing phone numbers being handled by microscopic digital circuits and software, back in the day each single digit you dialed in a phone number was being handled by a very macroscopic electromechanical switch, and it took enormous banks of such devices to handle thousands of customers in each telephone exchange.
As time went on electromechanical switches were replaced with more compact electronics that counted dial pulses electronically instead of mechanically.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I grew up during the transition to touchtone, so I've actually used this on a regular basis. Not in decades, of course, but I know somebody that still has a rotary phone in their house, at the top of the stairs. They can't call out anymore because the system won't support pulse dialing, but it still receives calls.
Actual mechanical bells!
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)so many of us did
DBoon
(22,362 posts)I used Jethro Tull albums to clean dope
robbob
(3,528 posts)Try opening up a cassette tape after the tape has broken, untangling the tape, cutting the irrevocably mangled tape away, splicing it back together and then rescrewing the cassette back together. Ive rescued many favourite tapes like this, and if youre lucky you only lose 1-2 seconds of recorded material.
electric_blue68
(14,888 posts)oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)to change the channel. Does the phrase "Don't touch that dial!" have any meaning anymore?
shanti
(21,675 posts)We're so lazy now.
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)Play a 16 2/3 RPM record on a record player.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)33.333, 45 and 78 rpm are common... I think I've seen a record player that had 16 2/3 but never a 16 2/3 record.
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)They were designed mainly for talking records where they could play for a LONG time. I believe some old cars even had record players in them as a luxury item, and they played 16 2/3 records.
IcyPeas
(21,859 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)I lived fairly close to my middle school, but it was much quicker to just ride my bike instead.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I've noticed that the kids are not just driven to school these days to be dropped off at the curb, the little fatheads aren't even trusted to walk from the curb to the front door and back any longer so they have to have door-to-door service. Schools resemble airport terminals at certain times of day. When the Hell did we get so paranoid about practically non-existent dangers?
It can't be healthy for their development not to be allowed to find their own way.
IcyPeas
(21,859 posts)and passed by a small school and I couldn't believe the line-up of cars picking up their kids. It's sad really. I used to enjoy the walk back and forth from school. (and, yes, it was about a mile each way ) We'd be carrying our books too and back then I don't remember ever seeing a back-pack. We could also get a monthly bus pass back in the day to take the bus.
What if both parents work? who picks up the kid(s)?
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)and showed it to a 20-something colleague. She said "I don't even know how to use that!" I showed her how and asked her to dial her own phone number. She quit dialing about half way through and said "that takes too long".
Some other things they will never do:
Fold a paper road map.
Put film in a camera.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)dalton99a
(81,455 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)At a bookstore in smyrna beach deleware!!
Bought my copy of peril there for reading on the beach.
Kicking myself for not getting the map.
NJCher
(35,658 posts)On the weekend.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)At least push one that doesn't work on people power
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)In my neighborhood of small yards probably 60% of the people use non powered push mowers.
Thing is, the newest battery powered lightweight mowers are pretty much the same price as the non powered push types. You can get a decent one of each type for around $150.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Unless they're a mechanic and have a garage
hunter
(38,311 posts)If me and my siblings wanted to drive we had to support our own cars. The Mom and Dad cars were largely off limits to any teenage pleasure driving. Cars were strictly school and work.
Suffering old worn out cars meant me and my siblings had to learn how to repair cars ourselves. It was that or no cars.
Me and my sister once replaced the starter of her car in a movie theater parking lot.
I once replaced the warped head of my car in a K-Mart parking lot.
Today's cars are not so amicable to parking lot repairs but they do break down less frequently.
StClone
(11,683 posts)As for phones we had a party-line, two shorts and two longs was our ring and the phone unit base was wooden. Visit a real outhouse.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)IL Dem
(813 posts)Now the ring stays on the can and the tab folds back under the top of the can. With the old style, the ring and the tab came completely off the can. It was a big litter problem in some places because people threw them on the ground.
Hekate
(90,657 posts)I took him to the ER and was that foot filthy. The nurse gave me a bowl of suds and told me to make him soak it but he howled and wouldnt. That would have been 1976 or 77?
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)You could take those tabs and build like a weird chain mail vest out of them. I did I had it for years.
StClone
(11,683 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Bonus points if the machine still works when they're done.
NotANeocon
(423 posts)and spread the jello ink to make extra copies when it gets too light to read.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)meadowlander
(4,394 posts)I don't even what to think how many weeks' worth of allowance I blew on Mortal Kombat.
GPV
(72,377 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,006 posts)The small, super light bikes meant for X-Game style tricks are pretty popular around here. They don't have coaster brakes, using the hand brake design. I think that being able to pedal backward helps set the balance for landing on a jump trick.
They all have regular bike saddles, though. So, no banana seats.
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)They have usually have hand brakes...It's a boomer thing and even a Gen-X thing...
Easier for old people to ride!
ashredux
(2,605 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 17, 2021, 06:30 AM - Edit history (1)
But this thread lead me to discover other types of "party lines" that I never knew about in the 70's!
There were apparently several young people taking advantage of cross-talk that happened sometimes with the old electromechanical phone systems, dialing particular numbers so they could have group-chats with other people. The trick enabled them to avoid long-distance charges as they did it too.
It's mostly mentioned after the 20-minute mark of this video:
EDIT:
I mean, party lines were before my time if you mean the old system in which neighbors would share the same phone line and they could easily eavesdrop on your conversations if they wanted.
Like depicted in the 1960 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode titled "Party Line".
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ypxaw
CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... would ring if they shared that party line!
Good grief, I'd probably only consider using the phone if I was making the call! Less chance of nosy neighbors being aware of the conversation that way.
2naSalit
(86,572 posts)If you had to dial rather than ask the operator to do it.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)I vaguely remember calling the operator, but I can't remember what I was doing it for. Maybe collect calls or information. does 411 count as an operator?
I don't think kids today will have to worry about being kind....
....by rewinding
CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)If I remember correctly, the last digit of the exchange indicated that the call was to be routed through our small in-town switchboard (our small town of about 2000-2500 had it's own telephone company & mechanical switchboard), so to talk to someone else in town we just had to dial that digit plus the last 4 of the person's number.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)The town was around 15,000 people back then. Its only 25K now.
I still remember the number;
22292
muriel_volestrangler
(101,310 posts)in a town that, by then, had maybe 60,000 people in it. When my parents moved in in 1960, it had a 2 figure number - when the population was perhaps 20,000. Not that that meant there were under 100 phones in the town, just that it had been one of the first to get one, and the way the numbers had been distributed meant it kept it for years.
betsuni
(25,472 posts)I just can't believe it. So if they watch "Back to the Future" they can't understand the clocks important to the story? How is that hard?
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Like you, that just seems too bizarre!
All the kids in my kindergarten class could tell time from an analog clock!
And they're still commonly used at various public places!
I've also heard many young people can't read cursive writing anymore, but that's believable if schools stopped teaching it.
EDIT:
I used to downplay the importance of cursive writing myself, but then I remembered all of the old documents that I read while doing genealogy research years ago.
Would younger people interested in such things need someone older to read it to them? I seriously doubt that some cursive-to-print phone app could do the trick, given the many variations of cursive writing styles. Artificial intelligence often struggles with those types of differences.
Mariana
(14,856 posts)why wouldn't you learn to read cursive?
Some people must not have learned to do anything new after they left school, since they seem to think it's impossible to do.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... on their own if they had the will to do it! Like so many things that I learned over the years, never taught to me in school.
Most of the cursive letters resemble printed letters anyway, so it certainly doesn't strike me as difficult as learning Egyptian hieroglyphs or whatever.
Edit: So you flipped me back to my earlier "it's no big deal" feelings about it.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Is the kids who cant read cursive will be unable to read the bill of rights or constitution, off the parchments they were written on.
ProfessorGAC
(65,006 posts)As you may know, I substitute teach since I retired.
Several times I've had kids ask how many minutes before class ends. I might say, "Class ends at 9:55.".
The reply is " His many minutes?". I say "There's a clock right there." Reply "I don't know how to work that clock."
Understand that I don't do any grades below 6, so I'm talking 12 years old or more.
I'm guessing this has happened at least a half dozen times.
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)He was active during the construction. Clocks were not standard...I was surprised. School had policy against student devices in class...I guess teachers had clocks on desks? Weird...
csziggy
(34,136 posts)The main clock in our house when I was little was what was called a flip clock. It looked a lot like this:
That was what I learned to tell time on since it was in the Florida room on top of the TV where we spent most of our time.
We had a mantle clock on top of the piano and a clock whose case had been made by great grandfather by cutting filagree designs out of a piece of veneer wood. But the mantle clock was in the living room where we were not allowed to play and Mom wouldn't let Dad wind the filagree clock since it's ticks and chimes resonated in the thin wood.
I learned to tell time on analog clocks when I got to first grade since that is what they had in the classrooms.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)To take to the Green Stamp Store
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)There was a psych unit I was on that removed all the clocks on the unit but the analog roman numeral one.
Younger people couldn't read it. They'd ask me to tell them what time it was all the time.
I think it was weird they took all the clocks off this unit.
They also installed tilted shelves so your stuff would fall out onto the floor if you didn't put it on the shelf just right.
They put these heavy plates on the bottom of the chairs,all hell broke loose if you stubbed your toe on it.
And on this particular psych unit you weren't allowed to wear shoes either.
Annoyed the shit out of me.
Plus they painted the unit in gross colors to top off the abject stupidity.
malaise
(268,952 posts)for special occasions
CTyankee
(63,909 posts)at how "normal" her voice sounded, like she was next door!
malaise
(268,952 posts)Lovely to see that she's carrying on the family tradition re trips to Italy
DBoon
(22,362 posts)... a special birthday present was a long distance call from California to New York so Frank could chat with the composer Edgar Varese.
EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)and it could be impossible for youngsters to decipher.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)We started writing in cursive, went back to rotary phones and made all the cars manual transmission again!
ProfessorGAC
(65,006 posts)When I'm subbing, I tell kids that don't know me yet, about myself. One thing I tell them is I've been to 36 countries outside the US.
I have a handwritten (cursive) list I let them see.
I've shown it to maybe a hundred kids, and I've never had one not be able to read it.
I expected far worse.
senseandsensibility
(17,009 posts)at least it's still part of the curriculum. But what is never taken into account is how long each day it takes to teach it well. So in many cases, it gets short shrift.
berniesandersmittens
(11,343 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)First you had to type up a stencil.
Archae
(46,323 posts)Oh right, you never did that?
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)That's how our teachers made copies of everything.
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doc03
(35,326 posts)Pull out the choke to start the car. Roll the car window down manually. Drive a car with a stick shift especially a three on the tree.
From the ones I had to train before I retired "work", their idea of work is using a mouse.
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)With no electronics present nor parental supervision.
Igel
(35,300 posts)technology that does the work that required several others to do.
She's pleased that she doesn't need other people.
Of course, that tech also allows robocalls and enables phone spam.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)My wife once told my son their first TV had a crank. He bought it. One of life's pure joys is bull shitting a teen.
eleny
(46,166 posts)He was watching too much tv. The tv was plugged into an outlet that was controlled by a light switch that she'd switch to "off". When he got upset because the tv wouldn't turn on, she'd tell him that the tv needed to rest before it could play again some more.
forthemiddle
(1,379 posts)Or play ding, dong, ditch. No way to not get caught now a days.
Plan your week around the TV Guide. If you missed an episode, you didnt get to see it again until they ran reruns at seasons end.
Sympthsical
(9,073 posts)Some kids, maybe 10ish, ding dong ditched. The neighbor posted Ring footage of the kids and ranted for like three paragraphs about kids today, how something had to be done, etc. etc.
The commenters, 10-1, weren't having it, thankfully.
forthemiddle
(1,379 posts)Some pranks are just innocent fun.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)Through 20' snow, except in July when the sandstorms started. Vicious pumas around every corner. Barefoot.
And we liked it that way!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)filled out by hand, with a check in the envelope, and wait an eternity of 4-6 weeks for it.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)What if I don't WANT any more albums??!?
hunter
(38,311 posts)When those phones were invented every call was connected by human operators. You'd lift the receiver off the hook, the operator at the exchange would notice the light, ask who you wanted to be connected to, and make the connection.
An American candlestick telephone being used by
Genevieve Clark Thomson, circa 1915 w
Now we can use artificial intelligence to connect calls. My wife frequently uses her cell phone that way, simply telling the phone who she wants to talk to.
I'm some sort of Luddite. I don't like "digital assistants" always listening in.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)I said, "Email is fine"...I don't have a fax machine.
I think fax is still used in businesses...but yeah that home fax modem has gone the way of dial up.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Refill inkwells.
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)My dad had fountain pens, but they were on the way out. They were messy. (My dad kept locking them up because I kept getting into them because I wanted to do some art with a pen) I was told, "No fountain pen for you. You will use ballpoint pens".
Never owned one or used one..LOL
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Born in 57. Growing up and going to boarding school we used pencils and fountain pens only.
It was with some reluctance that we were allowed to transform from ink out of the well to replaceable cartridges.
I liked fountains because of the variety on ink colors. Blues and reds with different hues...
Ball points were seen as bad for one's handwriting skills
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)I was born in 1948 in upstate NY. In grade school we also learned to write with pencils and fountain pens. The inkwell holes in our desks actually had bottles of ink in them. I remember filling fountain pens using the lever on the side of the pen. I also remember going to the five and dime store in town sometime in the early '50's and getting one of the new-fangled Shaeffer school pens, which was a fountain pen but used a disposable ink cartridge.
To this day I still use a fountain pen daily to write in my journals. I have a collection of Waterman, S.T. DuPont, Pelikan and other vintage pens. I still write well in cursive with them.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)As far as I can recall though, all of mine were Parkers...
The stainless and royal blue were the most common.
At some point I remember the lads from Hong Kong showed up with the stainless combination packs...fountain and dry ink pens in a boxed set.
The status symbol became whether one had a gold plated clip or a stainless clip.
Somewhere I've got a box full of pens and a couple of bottles of "Quink"
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tulipsandroses
(5,123 posts)Or take a typewriting class. My niece probably texts faster than I can type.
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)Hated it...I took 2 years of it. Our instructor did not allow any mistakes and was against Liquid Paper.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)I work in IT and it drives me NUTS when I am IM'ing someone....I type very fast (I learned to type to morse code in the military)....then I have to sit there and practically feel my hair growing as they are finger-typing fairly short replies.
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)Hekate
(90,657 posts)Cant remember the name of the store but its on Main Street next door to
and she knew exactly what you meant.
The very last time I did that it turned out the lady lived far out of my state.
Kids will never know what dial me up means, or how the term drop a dime came to be. Does anyone in a crime drama even know what I dimed him out actually means?
Back in the day, one of my favorite songs had the lines, I call you up, invest a dime, say you belong to me and youll be mine
So happy together
If you get an earworm from that reference I know how old you are.
Ptah
(33,024 posts)hunter
(38,311 posts)Picking up hay for the family farm.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Kids today!
Confession: I never needed to use a slide rule to help with calculations either! Electronic calculators were available, and pretty inexpensive, by the time I was in high school.
One of my older brothers attempted to teach me how to use a slide rule when I was a teenager, and I REFUSED to pay attention. I just kept telling him that I'd never need a slide rule... which was indeed true.
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)They're kinda cool, but. My first calculator was a 2 digit decimal thing, so I relied on my slide rule alot.
But I got a new calculator and ditched the slide rule.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... for refusing to learn how to use it, so I only felt a little bad about that happening.
I asked him how it could prove more useful to me than a calculator, but his answers never convinced me it was worth my time.
Lol, people sometimes act like burning a few extra calories on something we deem to be impractical will cause immediate starvation. Yet we'll do all kinds of other impractical activities that we think are "fun".
And I later majored in math, yet I still didn't want to learn how to use a slide rule!
LeftInTX
(25,272 posts)It's been almost 50 years, but there is some geometric spatial thing with slide rules and that is how they work.
ripcord
(5,365 posts)We would take off on dirt bikes in the morning and not come how until it was getting dark, we were told as long as our parents didn't hear about anything we did on the news we were good.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 17, 2021, 08:43 PM - Edit history (1)
... among parents. Maybe justified? I don't know.
Me and my neighbor-friend, both of us in kindergarten at the time, wandered all over the place. Nobody that saw us ever acted concerned about 5 year olds being unattended by adults.
We indeed got lost one time, and we walked through some thick bushes only to see an interstate highway on the other side! So that was clearly the wrong direction, and my little buddy started BAWLING about it like we'd never get back home! I kept my cool, saying that we had to just keep walking back from where we came until we recognized stuff again.
That worked, but we were both late to kindergarten (the afternoon classes) that day and we got earfuls from our parents about it.
Which reminds me... we had analog watches and we realized that we were going to be late after getting lost. So we could tell time with analog clocks back then.
Edit: Despite how he cried, I was glad that he was with me because it turned out that he recognized landmarks better than me -- e.g., "Look! That's the tree where we found the bird's nest!" Then once we both recognized where we had earlier entered that wilderness area, he stopped crying and we ran home as fast as we could despite how we knew we'd be in trouble for missing most of school that day.
meadowlander
(4,394 posts)Is that true for kids as well? Do parents tend to get them debit cards and at what age? Or are kids still handling change?
When I was 11 or 12 my brother and I used to scour the parking lots at the dollar theater. We could usually find enough dropped change to get both of us in to see a movie in less than an hour. Now I can't remember the last time I saw a coin on the street or in a parking lot.
electric_blue68
(14,888 posts)You don't carry any in case of emergency - what I'd your debit, or credit card gets scratched?
I don't want every transaction of mine recorded so I use cash 60 % + of the time.
I have a debit, and credit card. I pay some of my bills over the phone with stored card info. I use zelle for on time to time.
UnderThisLaw
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CRK7376
(2,199 posts)Sociology this semester and have my kids looking at the Marist MindsetList. it's always fascinating to look that this list and see what is no more or what the kids have missed that was common for me.....rotary phones with the long cord, stamps that had to be licked to attach to the phone bill etc....
https://www.marist.edu/-/marist-mindset-list-class-of-2024