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Paper bills used to force budgeting talks in my family
I was thinking about this over the weekend. When I was a kid, the phone bill or the electric bill would come in the mail. My parents would open it at the table and talk about it right there. It was a regular check on spending. Now with auto-pay, that whole talk is gone. Nobody in my house even sees the numbers most months. I wonder if that quiet switch makes it easier to forget what stuff really costs.
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the_evan1mo ago
Yikes, auto-draft means I don't even know my own bills anymore.
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christopher_kim28d ago
Come on, it's not like your money just vanishes. Even @the_abby's card getting declined sends a notification.
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