What "old school" things do you still do?

Not too bright to not charge your phone before a trip and also to not carry a portable charger when traveling. He could have just walked over and bought a Fuel Rod at the airport kiosk.

We always have screenshots of our boarding pass in case the internet signal is weak but we also print a paper copy as a backup.
Ah, thank you for that reminder to bring my portable charger for my week of skiing trip!

Undecided about printing boarding passes. I haven't been lately, but maybe I will with my new laser printer. Seems like one of the last times I printed it take a page for each pass, so it could put advertising stuff on the rest of the page. No thanks!
 
My good friend is a 69 year old farmer. We grew up together farming and raising livestock. He raised livestock and at his age his body is worn out. Full of injuries and used up. He stopped operating his equipment the day I spoke of when the GPS went down because he can't turn his neck to see where his tillage equipment is. I asked him why he didn't have his son take over and he told me "I never taught him how" "He can't steer a tractor without GPS"

So, there are people who don't know how to drive farm equipment without GPS. My neighbors, and most farmers under 40 won't, if they can they aren't good at it. It's like teaching a 15 year old how to text their friends on a rotary phone. Or telling a 21 year old airline captain to fly across country with a map and compass. They can try, but they haven't done it. Doesn't mean they can't do it, it just means they haven't done it yet.
I often think of this issue (not being capable of old-school "technology"). What happens if that technology is interrupted? A huge sun flare could disrupt and even destroy satellite capabilities, rendering GPS unusable. Then what do we do? Learning to drive a tractor "old school" is one thing. Learning to fly an airliner "old school" is quite another.

Scary stuff.
 
I often think of this issue (not being capable of old-school "technology"). What happens if that technology is interrupted? A huge sun flare could disrupt and even destroy satellite capabilities, rendering GPS unusable. Then what do we do? Learning to drive a tractor "old school" is one thing. Learning to fly an airliner "old school" is quite another.

Scary stuff.
This is true for just about every aspect of modern life. How many left who can drive a stick or pop the clutch to get the car started? Build a fire? Kids today are completely buffaloed with a rotary phone. Write a check, read cursive? Do basic math longhand without a calculator? How the hell did we get to the moon with just sliderules? Parallel park, without the car doing it for you, anyone?
 
Ah, thank you for that reminder to bring my portable charger for my week of skiing trip!

Undecided about printing boarding passes. I haven't been lately, but maybe I will with my new laser printer. Seems like one of the last times I printed it take a page for each pass, so it could put advertising stuff on the rest of the page. No thanks!
You can do a screen shot and just drop out the ads.
 
You can do a screen shot and just drop out the ads.
As expected, it is one boarding pass per page, with an ad for the airline credit card. Don't feel like doing the work to get them to a single page. Maybe will print at the airport.
 
As expected, it is one boarding pass per page, with an ad for the airline credit card. Don't feel like doing the work to get them to a single page. Maybe will print at the airport.
Yeah, one per page, but I wouldn't want it differently. That way each passenger has their own.
 
As expected, it is one boarding pass per page, with an ad for the airline credit card. Don't feel like doing the work to get them to a single page. Maybe will print at the airport.
I typically find a "print" link on these types of pages that takes me to raw image of the ticket only.
 
Yeah, one per page, but I wouldn't want it differently. That way each passenger has their own.
Incorrect assumption. I want my two flight segment passes on one page that I can cut in half. I'm going to cut the paper anyway so I don't have 2 full sized sheets to carry. One page, one cut, less waste, less ink, less effort. My son will do whatever he wants, which I'm positive is to not carry paper, so I don't even offer anymore.
 
Paper Calendars... This blows my mind. I can't imagine not being able to:
- Not being able to enter and review appointments on my phone while I'm away from the house.
- Enter appointments for next year. Where would I get a 2026 calendar today?
- Enter annual recuring appointments (Homeowners insurance & taxes, birthdays, ect). What a pain to start a new year.
- Enter appointments once for my spouse and me on our calendars (invite function)
- Get multiple reminder emails when it's something I absolutely can't miss.
- Get an email on MWF to take my 3 day a week med(eye drops). Delete the email when I 'do' the drops.
 
Mixing old and new, just printed out on back of already used paper the next three months worth of calendar from windoze.
 
Paper Calendars... This blows my mind. I can't imagine not being able to:
- Not being able to enter and review appointments on my phone while I'm away from the house.
- Enter appointments for next year. Where would I get a 2026 calendar today?
- Enter annual recuring appointments (Homeowners insurance & taxes, birthdays, ect). What a pain to start a new year.
- Enter appointments once for my spouse and me on our calendars (invite function)
- Get multiple reminder emails when it's something I absolutely can't miss.
- Get an email on MWF to take my 3 day a week med(eye drops). Delete the email when I 'do' the drops.
I'd never criticize someone for using their phone for all the cool things that it can do. For me, however, I don't want to be tied to my phone or even need to cary the brick with me all the time. I am slowly adapting to using the phone, but it'll be a while.
 
I'd never criticize someone for using their phone for all the cool things that it can do. For me, however, I don't want to be tied to my phone or even need to cary the brick with me all the time. I am slowly adapting to using the phone, but it'll be a while.
I use my mobile phone almost exclusively to get two factor authentication codes. In fact, it almost never leaves my desk, although I did take it on vacation to Japan and it was useful.
 
Pay cash for just about everything except gas, hotels and Internet purchases. So that pretty means green fees, dining out and tipping.
 
I use both, my iPhone calendar and by my desk, my Dayplanner.
DH doesn't use his phone calendar, so I can't share calendars, so he goes to the desk paper calendar for info.
Best of both worlds, I guess :)
 
Paper Calendars... This blows my mind. I can't imagine not being able to:
- Not being able to enter and review appointments on my phone while I'm away from the house.
- Enter appointments for next year. Where would I get a 2026 calendar today?
- Enter annual recuring appointments (Homeowners insurance & taxes, birthdays, ect). What a pain to start a new year.
- Enter appointments once for my spouse and me on our calendars (invite function)
- Get multiple reminder emails when it's something I absolutely can't miss.
- Get an email on MWF to take my 3 day a week med(eye drops). Delete the email when I 'do' the drops.
People used paper calendars without a problem throughout human history except for maybe the last 30 years. It blows my mind that this blows your mind.
 
Paper Calendars... This blows my mind. I can't imagine not being able to:
- Not being able to enter and review appointments on my phone while I'm away from the house.
- Enter appointments for next year. Where would I get a 2026 calendar today?
- Enter annual recuring appointments (Homeowners insurance & taxes, birthdays, ect). What a pain to start a new year.
- Enter appointments once for my spouse and me on our calendars (invite function)
- Get multiple reminder emails when it's something I absolutely can't miss.
- Get an email on MWF to take my 3 day a week med(eye drops). Delete the email when I 'do' the drops.
Paper calendars come in handy when you do not own a cell phone. :biggrin:
 
My granddaughter had an iPod with wifi to talk video to her friends (instead of a phone in the room). That was 20 years ago!

This generation gap is the largest in human history!
 
Mixing old and new, just printed out on back of already used paper the next three months worth of calendar from windoze.
I use the backs of paper all the time, for stuff I need for only my own purposes. About a year ago, I went through some obese folders which had stuff relating to my co-op going back well into the 1990s. Most of it was printed on one side of clean, reusable paper. So, besides trimming down a large folder into 3 pretty small ones, I freed up about 200 pages of clean, one-sided paper which only now I am on the verge of using up. Going through other junk mail gives me a bunch of these reusable sheets from time to time. It will make me a little sad when I have to use new, clean paper to print stuff out again for my own purposes.
 
I use the backs of paper all the time, for stuff I need for only my own purposes. About a year ago, I went through some obese folders which had stuff relating to my co-op going back well into the 1990s. Most of it was printed on one side of clean, reusable paper. So, besides trimming down a large folder into 3 pretty small ones, I freed up about 200 pages of clean, one-sided paper which only now I am on the verge of using up. Going through other junk mail gives me a bunch of these reusable sheets from time to time. It will make me a little sad when I have to use new, clean paper to print stuff out again for my own purposes.
There is a stack of used envelopes from junk mail and bills on my desk. I use those for notepaper. There’s another stack on top of the fridge that we use for shopping lists.
 
There is a stack of used envelopes from junk mail and bills on my desk. I use those for notepaper. There’s another stack on top of the fridge that we use for shopping lists.
Same here.
 
You can lose your phone ( and all your appointment stuff) but it's hard to lose a wall calendar.
My (phone) calendar is on Google's servers. I can get to it from any phone or computer in the world, as well as having it shared with friends and family.

My landlord/property manager (and realtor) used to drop by to give me a yearly calendar to stick on the fridge (with her realtor info). She stopped when, on the third year, she noticed the last one she gave me was on Jan of the prev year. :D
 

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