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How Many People Remember How Cash Was Used Prior to ATM's?

 
St Tidbits the Odd
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How Many People Remember How Cash Was Used Prior to ATM's?
I barely recall. I made decent money growing up so for me it was always cash, but most of it was left at home. A $10.00 tucked into my wallet for emergencies. Did this impede my generation (X) from over spending? YOu could only spend what was in your pocket that day.
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old people always think their old way was better

yea being financially limited all the time was just so great
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Yeah, we wrote checks.

And learned hard lessons when we wrote a check for a burger and overdrew our account by $35.00 in hot check fees.
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People were always trying to borrow from each other.

When you ran out that was it. No credit cards, no ATM.
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I hate cardtards!
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I hate when people put acronyms and don't say what mean like people supposed know which you talking about

Which app is it ATM?
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I hate when people put acronyms and don't say what mean like people supposed know which you talking about

Which app is it ATM?
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Who cares? Just use cash you loser.
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I hate when people put acronyms and don't say what mean like people supposed know which you talking about

Which app is it ATM?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80463948


Who cares? Just use cash you loser.
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Cause I want know what is!

Oh shut up, go and hit my anus you idiot loser!
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I barely recall. I made decent money growing up so for me it was always cash, but most of it was left at home. A $10.00 tucked into my wallet for emergencies. Did this impede my generation (X) from over spending? YOu could only spend what was in your pocket that day.
 Quoting: St Tidbits the Odd


You have to go into the Bank.

Most people did it once a week. Took out the money they needed to live until next week and stashed it, often inside their wallet.

No one stole from you because everyone's dad had been in Korea and was a part time vigilante by night.
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ATM is the cash machine.

Although, honestly, I very rarely use one any more. Most stores will do cash back for 15-20 years now.
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I remember bringing my savings account ledger in to withdraw

Cash and they would hand stamp the booklet by hand with the

date and teller number bank number. Then it went to an

electric stamping machine. Times have changed quickly.
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Automatic Teller Machine. Not a human. They were weird at first. We still use the one at our bank. No need to go inside the empty dead bank with dreary faces looking at you. People are sad now. No one has any spark left. It’s sad.
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Back in those days, I always had a 100 Dollar Bill tucked away in my wallet. Never touched it. It was for emergencies...

These days I carry a thousand in the hidden spot.

But I just rely on my debt/ATM for everyday stuff.
One of these days... A *REAL* rain is gonna come and wash all this scum off the streets.
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You didn't have to go far to find a cigarette machine and you paid pocket change.

Now, you have to go a long way past the local Walmart which won't sell cigarettes, to a lace where you can use a chip in your hand to make the withdrawl conveniently from your bank account.

A short walk has become a long walk, and your pocket change has become a bank transaction for a smoke after dark.

I would rather go downstairs in any building, drop a few quarters, and pull a button.
230 here, but 0 there.
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I remember the pay day rituals.....the boss and his secretary would walk the shop floor to pass out envelops of pay day cash....workers were paid in order of seniority....the boss would hand you the envelope and you would sign the secretary's clipboard....he chatted with everyone and it was a way for him to gauge his employers....any matters of concern was jotted down....it was a human touch compared to the boss you now never see and a direct deposit in your bank account.....

Everyone was in a happy mood on pay day and we head across the street to a dive bar for a few beers before going home....

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Yeah, we wrote checks.

And learned hard lessons when we wrote a check for a burger and overdrew our account by $35.00 in hot check fees.
 Quoting: Vasily


everybody stood in line at the bank on Fridays to cash their paycheck.

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People were always trying to borrow from each other.

When you ran out that was it. No credit cards, no ATM.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51164672


Exactly...taught generations a lot about spending habits that is now seemingly lost. I didn't get my first CC until I was in my 20's in the 90's. Never/rarely used it.
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Travelers Checks had books of hem when on the road fully insured against theft...
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The debit atm card was the original mark of the beast

Some here kept saying that until very recently

People believe what they want to believe

Then make it fit

The scenario they come up with

Until it sounds like sheer madness
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Re: How Many People Remember How Cash Was Used Prior to ATM's?
I barely recall. I made decent money growing up so for me it was always cash, but most of it was left at home. A $10.00 tucked into my wallet for emergencies. Did this impede my generation (X) from over spending? YOu could only spend what was in your pocket that day.
 Quoting: St Tidbits the Odd


You have to go into the Bank.

Most people did it once a week. Took out the money they needed to live until next week and stashed it, often inside their wallet.

No one stole from you because everyone's dad had been in Korea and was a part time vigilante by night.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85174833


i didn't even need a bank. paid in cash, in a little brown envelope [tax deducted of course] and spent wisely until the next one.

saved up for stuff [hi-fi, guitars] and tried to NEVER waste a penny.
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a friend remembers wheeling a shopping trolley with 3 million pounds in it, across the factory floor. maybe to let the workers see that they're going to be paid. [it was the'70's]
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Re: How Many People Remember How Cash Was Used Prior to ATM's?
People were always trying to borrow from each other.

When you ran out that was it. No credit cards, no ATM.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51164672


Exactly...taught generations a lot about spending habits that is now seemingly lost. I didn't get my first CC until I was in my 20's in the 90's. Never/rarely used it.
 Quoting: St Tidbits the Odd


Yeah, I barely used an ATM. If I had the money I could spend it. If I didn't I just went home.

That was my world.
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People were always trying to borrow from each other.

When you ran out that was it. No credit cards, no ATM.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51164672


Exactly...taught generations a lot about spending habits that is now seemingly lost. I didn't get my first CC until I was in my 20's in the 90's. Never/rarely used it.
 Quoting: St Tidbits the Odd


i always carried a $20 in my ashtray just in cash.

it was enough gas money to get home.

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People were always trying to borrow from each other.

When you ran out that was it. No credit cards, no ATM.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51164672


Exactly...taught generations a lot about spending habits that is now seemingly lost. I didn't get my first CC until I was in my 20's in the 90's. Never/rarely used it.
 Quoting: St Tidbits the Odd


i always carried a $20 in my ashtray just in cash.

it was enough gas money to get home.

.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85175776


Yep! And in my wallet.
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Re: How Many People Remember How Cash Was Used Prior to ATM's?
just go into the bank and write yourself a check for cash and they would give it you.

i still do

and i still pay 50% of my bills with checks

and im not that old at all

and i still buy stamps..old skool

there's a few electronic bills i allow them..but i like writing checks and sending them out and dropping them in the mailbox.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
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We ate snow.
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People were always trying to borrow from each other.

When you ran out that was it. No credit cards, no ATM.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51164672


"Lend us a tenner until Friday mate," was the common refrain.
Thanks for reminding me, I'd bloody well forgot all that.
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I remember when cashiers knew how to make change, and would count it back to you.
What the Hell?...
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We would keep a monthly budget and knew how much cash we would need until the next paycheck, and take our paychecks to deposit them in the bank and keep enough cash based on what we budgeted for. We would use the cash to fill up our gas tanks and keep the rest for small purchases. We always paid cash for restaurants and gas, and mostly everything. We wrote checks for the grocery store and bills, and any larger purchases. Every time we wrote a check we would have to balance the checkbook. If we needed more cash we would have to go to the bank during banking hours to make a withdrawal.

I still keep a monthly budget, and the goal is to stick with it as far as possible. I notice young people don't keep a budget or know how to manage their money. They are always broke and never make it to their next paycheck, and have to borrow from me or others. I keep telling them to keep a budget but that goes in one ear and out the other.

If you want to spend less, or save money the best policy is to avoid going anywhere as far as possible. When you leave the house you are probably going to end up spending money. I invest in lots of stay at home activities to keep us home more. Never go into a store just to look around or window shop. Never look at ads or commercials. When you go to a store have a list and stick to it. If you see something in the store you want that is not on the list, make yourself wait until the next time you go to the store and have it on the list. If you forgot about it, you didn't need it in the first place.

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ATMs don't even need to be used as often anymore as they once were.





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