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How long does it take you to get use to writing or saying the new year?

qualitygal — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:24:43 GMT

It takes a relative short time for me I think, since at this age, time just zooms by anyway. Since I don't work and don't write many checks, I don't have a lot of times it pops up. I've been known to revert back to the last year out of the blue. Those few old brain cells that won't let go.

I have more trouble with the time change, I am still set for Spring!

How about you?

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adoreqvc — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:29:48 GMT

No problems at all, thank goodness and Happy New Year to you.

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Desertdi — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:56:15 GMT

Worked for years in accounting.........it better be RIGHT.......or else!

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Burnsite — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:04:14 GMT

I am good to go for the first weeks of a new year. Sometimes I have a brief "relapse" around February as I stop making a point to think of it when I write checks.

I don't know if it's true or not, but someone told me years ago that the last years' date on a check early in the New Year--or in payment of a bill--is not a deal breaker. It can just be disregarded and deposited, since a mistake early in the new year is so common.

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jlkz — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:07:57 GMT

In my personal checkbook, I will write the new year date in on quite a few check date lines. In the QuickBooks electronic system, the month and year is on the icon by the date line: one company, one year. At transition time, I have to be sure I am entering data for the correct year.

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jlkz — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:08:56 GMT

On deposit tickets, I also enter the year on several ahead of time.

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Mominohio — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:14:36 GMT

At first, it is a very conscious effort, so I don't tend to slip up as often.

But until it becomes an automatic habit (about April for me!) I can be seen having to change the date on some things.

A couple of years ago, out of nowhere, I wrote 1983. I don't know where that came from, not a significant year for me. What must that mean?!! LOL

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qualitygal — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:20:33 GMT

@Mominohio wrote:

A couple of years ago, out of nowhere, I wrote 1983. I don't know where that came from, not a significant year for me. What must that mean?!! LOL

Been there done that one too. I'm telling ya, it's the Twilight Zone. LOL

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brewhaha — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:49:08 GMT

Not long at all. Looking forward to Y2K.

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chrystaltree — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:53:14 GMT

.....a few days, maybe a week

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Lucky Charm — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:55:02 GMT

Years ago I worked in the checking department of a huge bank.

We had to 'pull' checks from being processed and have them 'RETURNED' for being stale dated.

I would catch the most out of all the girls in the department.

It made me conscientious of making sure I wasn't doing it myself.

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Pqfan — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:58:18 GMT

I am going to make myself a BIG note about the year.

Otherwise I will still be writting 2015 on checks.

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AnikaBrodie — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:03:05 GMT

Not long at all. As I recall it took a little longer going from 1999 to 2000!

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chickenbutt — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:11:48 GMT

Just thinking about it, I don't have the occasion to write or say the year that much. But back in the day, when we did a lot of writing, I did fairly well - within that first week I was on board.

What bugs me is this new thing when people say the year like - 'twenty sixteen'. NO! There is no number 'twenty hundred' in this language. It's two-thousand sixteen. there, I said it.

When the year was 2005 I never heard people calling it the year 'twenty-five'. That's because it would have been wrong....very, very wrong - just as it is now.

Ok, rant over. Thanks for listening or even not listening. It's all good.

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151949 — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:42:13 GMT

My birthday is the first week of january. The lady who did my birth certificate wrote down the previous year and it was recorded for posterity that way. I am offically a year older than I am. My Mom tried to get it fixed but was unsuccessful because she had no proof. I could have driven when I was 15 and voted at 20 and retired a year early.

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Kachina624 — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:32:37 GMT

I write the date so seldom that I have to make a conscious effort to get it right even late in the year.

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missy1 — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:13:12 GMT

A few weeks.

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3cupcakes — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:54:01 GMT

@brewhaha wrote:
Not long at all. Looking forward to Y2K.

@brewhaha Oh,gosh, I had forgotten about Y2K! Remember the drama before hand?

Our hard drives were going to explode, we better all have cash on hand because the banking computers, along w/those on grocery stores, gas stations would be ka-putt too. Chaos was probably coming we were told. Some people got frantic.

.......then midnight came & went & everything was ok. 🙂

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Shorty2U — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 02:25:52 GMT

No problem at all. I just wrote bills out earlier and addressed them for tomorrow with 2016 as the year since they wont be mailed until Saturday anyway.