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this generation is the computer one if a machines says its so it is.....my gdd has no idea how to handle money or use read the dails on the clock I said what if all the power in the world went out what would you do without your ipod..............................

ptquilts

I just read online that the Treasury is not printing so much paper money, because of so many people not using cash.

Painiacs

No dc don't ever use one. Use cash, check and rarely cc.

JulieR

I almost never use cash or checks; it's all debit for me with a rare credit card swipe for major purchases.

Kids don't know how to count back change because they don't have to count back change. If the register didn't tell them the amount (AND if people returned to using cash) they'd be as good at counting it back manually as older generations were.

Kids today are learning different skills from what many of us had to learn to get by in the society of the times. Now, if you came out of school unable to use a computer it would be a serious obstacle to going into most job markets, and entirely prohibitive for pursuing higher education. Those non-change-counting kids have to have computer skills to run the registers now.

Cursive writing is pretty, but is it truly necessary when we can block print or type communication? Paper forms are dying out, but even these now usually have a note to PRINT your name.

I'm not saying we should junk everything we were taught in favor of new things, but we should look seriously at what skills are needed and which ones are now only "nice to haves."

azdesertrat

Made me chuckle! If it is true that horrid hand writing is a sign of highly intelligent folks, then I am brilliant. :lol: :lol:[/quote]
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Shelbie

Some businesses are now asking for your credit card. We were in a major hotel in Ontario last week and they weren't at all happy that I wanted to pay my bill with cash or Interac. I wasn't even carrying a credit card and they were absolutely incredulous that I wouldn't have one.

Rose L

Very well said, Julie!! My kids and their friends are far brighter and more able bodied at the high school level than I am after pursuing two college degrees. Instead of bemoaning the fact that kids don't know what we knew we should celebrate that the youth of our nation are educated enough to keep up with the global technology of he world. Many, many countries can't say that!! There is absolutely no reason to teach them things that they will rarely if ever need to know when there is so much more that has to be learned and put to use effectively. After the seventh grade, I started learning from my kids...that's progress!

Sandee

I use shecks alot & cashiers really don't like them any more....Too Bad..

gramajo

I'm a cashier, so handle checks, credit & debit cards. Our check verification machine takes a long time for approval. In the meantime, the line behind the checkwriter is getting longer & people are getting impatient. I had 1 customer down the line ask "why the h*** do you take checks anyway?"

Credit & debit cards also take longer than cash sales. Sometimes when a card is declined, the customer gets mad at us & says they just made a deposit, it should go through, yada, yada, yada. Unless the deposit was cash, most banks won't release the funds until the next day.

I'm not trying to push cash, credit or debit--just trying to present the other side. BTW, I sometimes prefer using checks if I don't have enough cash on me and don't want to put it on a credit card. I don't have a debit card--it seems like too much bookkeeping for me.

Since I am on my soapbox, don't even get me started on rude/impatient/talking on their cellphone customers. Most of us behind the register are trying to do our best and be nice to even the nastiest of customers.

:-)

Fabaddict

if it is under $10 I use cash. It frustrates the heck out of me that none of the clerks know how to cound back change.
Used to laugh at the kids in the store I worked in when the power went off - they could not make change. They used calculators, pads & pencils anything to "figure" the change.
To this day, when a clerk hands me money, I count it back to myself to make sure it is correct.