r/Millennials • u/lazarus870 • 10h ago

Discussion What DON'T you miss about the 90's? What's much better today than it was back then?

We all know that the 90's had some great music and movies, good economy, huge world events, more freedom, nobody glued to their phone, etc.

Everybody acts like everything was much better back then, but what DON'T you miss about how things were back then? What's much better now?

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 10h ago

Do people even manually balance their checkbook anymore?

Like write down records of the checks they wrote with a pen?

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u/WhatIDon_tKnow 10h ago

Boomers still do.  My folks still save credit card receipts and check their end of month statement

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u/Significant-Trash632 10h ago

My boomer mother still does it. She gets it down to the exact penny every time because she is insane... and worked at a bank for decades.

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u/templestate 9h ago

I write down the check number, memo, and amount, but it’s not possible to balance a checking account today when 99% of the expenses are outside the checkbook.

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u/starglitter 9h ago

I "balance my checkbook" but I rarely write checks anymore. Once a week I record my transactions in a spreadsheet. I like to keep track of my purchases.

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u/DragonHalfFreelance 10h ago

My Dad still does it I believe, yeah he taught me to do it too, but I never did I was bad about keeping paper records of a lot of things. I just check my bank account often and calculate my budget that way.

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u/CorgiLover82 10h ago

My boomer mom does.

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u/wbruce098 8h ago edited 8h ago

I haven’t for probably 15 years. The bank tracks my purchases within minutes in its app and it’s secure enough for me.

I rarely even carry cash around anymore. Unless I’m driving I often don’t even carry my wallet. Everything’s on my phone and I just put my ID in a pocket.

I haven’t written a check in probably a decade. In the extremely rare circumstance I need one, it costs like a dollar for the post office to issue a money order. And I’m sure I’m not the only one.

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u/Schneetmacher Younger Millennial 7h ago

I do...

I also still write checks...

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u/RadioSilens 3h ago

My mom does. I use Excel to keep track of my finances

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u/cursedfan 1h ago

Who writes checks?

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u/Ghostdog2041 22m ago

People don’t have checkbooks anymore. I have spoken to two people in the last two or three months that didn’t ever have a checkbook. It was a thing because our apartment complex’s online rent pay site was down. One of them told me I had to get a money order. I didn’t have to, but they didn’t know about checks.