What "old school" things do you still do?

[aja8888]

I composed my own thank you email today instead of getting AI assistance.

I still use Thank You cards with envelopes and U.S. postage stamps for "thank you's". But nice job of composing the message yourself!

 

[ArmchairMillionaire]

I composed my own thank you email today instead of getting AI assistance.

I don't even know how to get AI assistance to help write a thank you.

 

[ncbill]

We still send out Christmas cards.

 

[Lewis Clark]

I still use Thank You cards with envelopes and U.S. postage stamps for "thank you's". But nice job of composing the message yourself!

Hand-written thank you notes are still the best kind.

 

[Car-Guy]

Hand-written thank you notes are still the best kind.

My cursive writing was never very good and over the decades it has become illegible. I can't even read it most of the time.

 

[HFWR]

My cursive writing was never very good and over the decades it has become illegible. I can't even read it most of the time.

Yep, I could have been a MD, except for that pesky ten years of college, residency, etc.

I sent Christmas cards for many years, out of habit, and in homage to my mom, which might seem odd for an agnathiest. Down to sending one to an elderly aunt, and one lifelong friend. I buy cards designed by childhood cancer patients.

 

[Ronstar]

My cursive writing was never very good and over the decades it has become illegible. I can't even read it most of the time.

I’m in the same boat.

I never wrote cursive past high school. Cursive didn’t exist in engineering in college or on the job, but I needed to be able to read it in old handwritten deeds back to the mid 1800’s.

I don’t think I could write anything cursive other than my signature that is somewhat cursive.

 

[HFWR]

I’m in the same boat.

I never wrote cursive past high school. Cursive didn’t exist in engineering in college or on the job, but I needed to be able to read it in old handwritten deeds back to the mid 1800’s.

I don’t think I could write anything cursive other than my signature that is somewhat cursive.

Filling out a brazillion lab notebooks over the years, none of which would have been legible. Good old block letters.

 

[imjustawarrior]

My cursive writing was never very good and over the decades it has become illegible. I can't even read it most of the time.

I can hardly sign my name in cursive any more. I usually just squiggle a line.

 

[Lewis Clark]

My cursive writing was never very good and over the decades it has become illegible. I can't even read it most of the time.

That's why I just print when I write by hand. Works well. : )

 

[steelyman]

I often comment to the cashier “Looks like a ransom note, huh?”. Gets a smile.

 

[HFWR]

I can hardly sign my name in cursive any more. I usually just squiggle a line.

Especially when signing on a POS terminal. That’s “point of sale”, though the other meaning is applicable…

 

[HFWR]

I still put on an album, and “listen to music”.

 

[imjustawarrior]

I still use a straw broom to sweep the porch, walk, patio, and garage. I find it relaxing.

 

[OnTheBeach]

I am 55 and

• print out reports
• read paper books (from library)
• Facebook
• use a credit card (instead of a phone like my kids)

 

[ArmchairMillionaire]

I am 55 and

• print out reports
• read paper books (from library)
• Facebook
• use a credit card (instead of a phone like my kids)

I'm 54 and:

• Print out spreadsheets and Word™ documents
• Read hardcover novels (from Amazon or used book stores)
• I've never been on FaceBook
• I use our Amazon Visa for almost all purchases.
• I do not own a smart-phone (but my father did until he passed away at almost 81)
• Have never sent a modern text message. (My w*rk gave me one of those alpha-numeric pagers when they first came out and you could send short answers on them, but I didn't have it for long)

 

[YellowSubmarine]

I do manual labor for the workout, adventure and self sense of accomplishment. But, I no long do ladder on trees with chainsaws.

 

[JoeWras]

Nobody, any age, should use a ladder to cut a tree. Period.

Trees are too dynamic, and the branch fall is even more dynamic. Your ladder doesn't have a stable support.

 

[groesbeck]

I recently met an older man who was selling everything he owned. On the last cut of a tree limb he fell about 12 feet and broke his back. Will never be the same again. I look at ladders as the enemy now.