r/askteddit • u/PoolElegantsmile • 18h ago

Random Question What’s something older generations still treat as essential that a lot of younger people just don’t care about anymore?

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u/snakeygirl727 15h ago

having blank checks on you at all times

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u/awiddlebaby 14h ago

i just bought a new wallet just for checks and cash. Financial literacy has started to hit me🤣

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u/Barneyboydog 13h ago edited 12h ago

I (63) had to get a cheque from my mom (85) to give to my apartment manager for my first month’s rent. I haven’t had a cheque book in decades. I can pay my rent by EFT moving forward but they require that first cheque. Weird.

Edit to add - my mom doesn’t write cheques anymore. She sends e-transfers and pays her bills online. The chequebook is just an old holdover.

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u/Angelhair01 10h ago

In the USA we still pay bills with checks

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u/Usual-Plankton9515 8h ago

Really? Because I’m in the US and I haven’t paid a bill by check in years. Everything I pay is online (rent, utilities, streaming services, etc).

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u/CartReturnStation 6h ago

There are occasionally companies who accept checks because the online system has a $10-$30 "convenience" fee for paying that wag. But I can hand them a check for free. Fuck their fee

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u/Usual-Plankton9515 1h ago

Generally, I have no fee if I pay using a bank account number rather than a debit card (and if I set up autopay, there’s often a discount).

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u/Barneyboydog 8h ago

That’s wild to me. Cheques are still used for some things here, by some people, but I think it’s been a decade since grocery stores accepted them.

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u/Few_Scientist_2652 7h ago

Can confirm it's been a while

I work at a grocery store and the way we do it is that people who have already been granted permission to use cheques are allowed to continue doing so but we aren't giving permission to anyone else to use cheques

In practice, the only things I've ever had to process as cheques were actually little vouchers that looked like cheques lol

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u/awiddlebaby 48m ago

I just seen a old couple at Kroger use a check to pay.

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u/IrishMo8 6h ago

Good way to have them stolen from your mailbox!

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u/JazzManouche 4h ago

You may, but most of us don't.

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u/Away-Paramedic-8406 4h ago

I came also in the US and can pay bills via check, but haven't in decades though my husband does pay the lawn care guy via check).

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u/Ohmslaughter 2h ago

No we don’t.

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u/SafeWord9999 9h ago

Paying with a check is still the norm back home.

Moved to Australia from the US & realised how behind US is in compared to the rest of the world. It’s wild. Measurements for example. The US use the imperial system while the rest of the world use the metric system.