Do you bank on line?  I do it the old fashioned way.  By check.  My checkbook is a binder with three checks and stubs per page.  Every year or so I take out the stubs, clip them, and put them in the bottom of a drawer.

My father used to pay his bills out of his checkbook sitting in the dining room table at night after dinner.  He also had a large binder.  One night I refused to go to sleep.  He warned me to get back to bed, but I kept coming out of my room.  He finally said, well, if you want to stay up, then you are staying up.

He made me sit with him in the dining room while he wrote out his checks and did his paperwork.  At first I thought this was great.  Time with dad all alone!  And I was impressed with whatever it was he was doing, it just seemed so in charge and organized.  That lasted about five minutes.  I became bored and sleepy.  Every time I put my head down on the table and started to doze he would shake me and wake me up.  It was awful.  I was so tired and just wanted to go to bed, which I guess was the whole point.

But I learned how to write a check that night.  I think it will become a lost art though.  Soon no one will be writing checks anymore.  Soon it will all be digital.  Who will teach me how to pay my bills then?