When I was younger , calculators were just starting to get popular. My mother was a bookkeeper. She refused to let my brother and I to use calculators , we had to do the math on paper or in our heads. I hated it at the time. Very glad now however , can do math in a jiffy in my head.

Mom always knows best.

Used to be a scammer chick at the corner store that always gave you charge for a ten when you gave her a 20.

There was a store I went to in the seventies that the change came out automatically out of the register. It took a ride down a slide and into a cup you scooped it out of. The bills were counted out to you by the clerk

I was at a farmers market two weeks ago they deal in cash all morning every week

I forget what my total was but he gave me back 3-4 dollars more than he should have , I did the math for him and handed him back the extra , he thanked me for being so honest.

my great aunt taught us to count back change at great grandpas store that she ran till she retired

speaking of things no-one seems to use or understand anymore
my don was telling his class back in the spring about this fishing trip we were taking

when he said plan was get out the gazetteer and pick a spot that looked good and go fishing where ever we pleased. not one of them knew what a gazetteer was including he teacher who is about 35 he had to explain a gazetteer to his class and teacher.

when the kids were still in booster seats we would pass the gazetteer to the back seat and point to where we where and where we were going and let them give the directions and later a compass and tell them what road we were on and let them figure where we were from other road sings.

woodman's and a few other stores still have this

Straight razor? I'd cut my bloody throat.

Meanwhile, those younger people are bemoaning that the older generation doesn’t know of or know how to use Venmo/PayPal/etc. Any guesses if cash or digital payment methods will last into the future?

I gave a 40 year old women ,behind the Dunkin Donuts counter, a 2.00 bill for my coffee one morning. She ran to her boss ,cus she thought it was fake. She learned something that day !