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[Suziepeach]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@Smoky wrote:

Our precious neighbor is graduating college in a couple weeks.  We got her invitation to a luncheon & bless her heart she hand printed the envelope.  I love this child but her printing needs to be worked on, how pretty it would've been if it had been written in cursive.   Her brother is getting married a week later- our invitation was on printed labels, white labels but still doesn't anyone take the time.  I used to do wedding invitations for people & it wasn't a big deal to have something hand written and more personal feeling..  Just my look at it..  

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@Suziepeach

Maybe she prints because she doesn't like her own handwriting.  So many people have terrible handwriting.  You know the old story about people not being able to read the handwriting of doctors. 

I have nice handwriting but I sure wouldn't want to address wedding invitations, it would make me nervous.

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@Noel7, Hi.  I really enjoyed doing wedding invitations, the brides would be so tickled.  

I understand what you're saying about not liking her own handwriting but her printing needs to be worked on.  I'm still of the old school that everyone needs to be able to write cursive.  To me it's faster and neater.  

[just bee]

Quick -- what's today's date?

Did you look at the corner of your monitor or did you just know?

I work in a psychiatric emergency room and this is one of the questions we ask.  Maybe it's a dated -- no pun intended -- question, but it's surprising how many of my patients don't know the date.  Nor do they know phone numbers.  That information is in their phones.  Which they don't have at the moment.  So they can't contact anyone -- and neither can the staff -- and they are stranded in the emergency room without a phone and sometimes without money or clothes.

Sometimes it's a good idea not to be too dependent on technology.

[Marienkaefer2]

I don't have any stories to share, but I remember exactly when it was that I learned to make change.

My grandparents had a business, and I used to help out in the store.  When I was about ten or eleven, they started letting me "ring things up" for customers on the cash register. 

It was not one of those automated ones. 

I remember sitting in the backyard on a Sunday afternoon with my grandfather.  He had some loose change on the picnic table, and we "practiced" making change.  It was confusing at first, but I think I got it pretty quickly.

I'm glad that I learned to do things like that in my head.

[Marienkaefer2]

Reading a map is another good one!

I love maps.  I love looking at them, and I love figuring out distances.

[tansy]

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@Marienkaefer2 wrote:

I don't have any stories to share, but I remember exactly when it was that I learned to make change.

My grandparents had a business, and I used to help out in the store.  When I was about ten or eleven, they started letting me "ring things up" for customers on the cash register. 

It was not one of those automated ones. 

I remember sitting in the backyard on a Sunday afternoon with my grandfather.  He had some loose change on the picnic table, and we "practiced" making change.  It was confusing at first, but I think I got it pretty quickly.

I'm glad that I learned to do things like that in my head.

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When I was 16 I applied at a dry cleaners to work the counter on the weekends.  The owner had me count back change for him three times and I blew it three times -- lol.  He sighed, patted my hand and told me to practice before I showed up that Saturday.  I worked that job all through high school and into college

@Marienkaefer2

[panda1234]

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@just bee wrote:

Quick -- what's today's date?

Did you look at the corner of your monitor or did you just know?

I work in a psychiatric emergency room and this is one of the questions we ask.  Maybe it's a dated -- no pun intended -- question, but it's surprising how many of my patients don't know the date.  Nor do they know phone numbers.  That information is in their phones.  Which they don't have at the moment.  So they can't contact anyone -- and neither can the staff -- and they are stranded in the emergency room without a phone and sometimes without money or clothes.

Sometimes it's a good idea not to be too dependent on technology.

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So true. I am guilty of not knowing numbers because they are in my phone. 

[panda1234]

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@RubyinNE wrote:

I wish people would still write thank you cards.  Last year, I bought my great niece a camera. I really spent a lot of time researching for the best one. I never got a thank you, and really don't know if she liked it. 

This year, I sent her a certificate for clothes from her favorite store. It's been a couple of weeks, still haven't heard from her.

Oh, her mom, my niece DID say thank you to me on FB. Sorry, but that just doesn't do it for me.  I always sat my DD down to write a thank you note. IMO it's the right thing to do.

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No more gifts for the great niece.

[Sister Golden Hair]

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@Desertdi wrote:

Times have changed...........I take shorthand, and operate office machines such as teletype machines, addressographs, multiliths, accounting machines such as the Marchand................     Nobody has even HEARD of this stuff....at least not in recent history (!)

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@Desertdi How about a keypunch machine? I worked at Southwestern Bell and the copy machine was as big as a small bedroom.

Computers were the size of a walk-in closet.

Thank goodness things have changed in some parts of our life.

But I do believe that every child needs to know how to write, count money and keep a checkbook.

Oh checkbook, no one uses these anymore

[Sister Golden Hair]

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@depglass wrote:

I once went to our small town museum in the Carnegie Library building.  Four women were standing next to a telephone switchboard, the kind where two wires were put into a board with holes completing a connection.  I worked on one of these in the 60's and really felt old explaining what it was.  That's when they still had person to person calls, the person wasn't there, you didn't pay for the call. 

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@depglass I worked on a switchboard at JC Penney's. That was in 1971 and we had a loud speaker to call the floor manager to a department.

What great memories of the old days

[Noel7]

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@Smoky wrote:

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@Smoky wrote:

Our precious neighbor is graduating college in a couple weeks.  We got her invitation to a luncheon & bless her heart she hand printed the envelope.  I love this child but her printing needs to be worked on, how pretty it would've been if it had been written in cursive.   Her brother is getting married a week later- our invitation was on printed labels, white labels but still doesn't anyone take the time.  I used to do wedding invitations for people & it wasn't a big deal to have something hand written and more personal feeling..  Just my look at it..  

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@Suziepeach

Maybe she prints because she doesn't like her own handwriting.  So many people have terrible handwriting.  You know the old story about people not being able to read the handwriting of doctors. 

I have nice handwriting but I sure wouldn't want to address wedding invitations, it would make me nervous.

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@Noel7, Hi.  I really enjoyed doing wedding invitations, the brides would be so tickled.  

I understand what you're saying about not liking her own handwriting but her printing needs to be worked on.  I'm still of the old school that everyone needs to be able to write cursive.  To me it's faster and neater.  

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@Suziepeach

I'm with you, I also think everyone needs to know cursive.  In my experience, people who don't write nicely don't print nicely, either, lol.  

A good friend of mine does calligraphy.  One tiny mistake along the way and it's all over.  I feel that way when I write cards, that I have to be so careful.  I could never do what you do, you are an artist