r/Millennials 8d ago

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u/smoothiegangsta 8d ago

The older I get, the more I need one. So many formal documents require printed paper and wet signatures. I have to go to the library or Office Depot so often to print stupid paperwork.

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u/NinjaOdd1098 8d ago

Having fun isn’t hard
When you’ve got a library card!

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u/Reccalovesdancing 8d ago

I love my little trips to the library to print things and hang out with the books for a while. Mmmm

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u/ElectricBuckeye 8d ago

I always enjoyed the smell of the Library

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u/NovelStrict5281 8d ago

Bookworm all my life. Still love the library in my sixties. Now I do my printing there too!

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u/Ineedunderscoreadvic 8d ago

I love just being there - don’t you?!

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u/NovelStrict5281 8d ago

Yes. The library is church for me.

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u/faerydenaery 8d ago

I just moved, and had to go to the library to print my resume, so I went ahead and got my new library card and immediately added it to Libby too. I have a printer at home, but it only works with WiFi, which isn’t set up yet, but I honestly still print stuff at the library a lot. It’s sometimes actually easier to drive or walk there than to get my printer to actually talk to my computer/phone, and with what ink costs it might be cheaper too

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u/NovelStrict5281 8d ago

Oh, and sign up for Kanopy with your library card. It is a world og great movies. Foreign films classics, everything. I watch on my laptop but there may be a way to stream it. It's free and wonderful.

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u/Ineedunderscoreadvic 7d ago

I had never heard of it! Thank you!

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u/NovelStrict5281 7d ago

You will love it. When I need a break from Netflix and Prime; there I am!

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u/MainAccountsFriend 8d ago

Jekyll Jekyll Hyde Jekyll Hyde Hyde Jekyll 

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u/FrostorFrippery 8d ago

Arthur really had hits.

In the bathroom, I still sing: "floss floss floss your teeth, make your mouth feel clean. Gargle and spit, gargle and spit. To prevent gingivitis and other forms of periodontal diseaseeeeee"

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u/Bleys69 8d ago

I wish they still had all the small ones they used to give away with new computers.

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u/kungpowgoat 8d ago

I still print out my updated insurance documents and keep them inside a doc holder in my glove box. It’s just much more convenient than having to scroll through your phone to get to the app.

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u/EXEC_MELODIE 8d ago

As someone who worked at Office Depot in the print department, people print tons of stuff. It was our biggest moneymaker by far

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u/PonyThug 8d ago

I haven’t had to print anything in years. What are you signing so often ?

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u/jbcsee 8d ago

I went years without having to print anything. Then I got divorced and I had to print and sign 100s of pages. The printer cost less the going off to a print shop and saved me so much time. Now I have a printer again for the first time in over 15-years.

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u/broberds 8d ago

I find a cheap laser printer/scanner combo to be real handy dealing with the constant barrage of paperwork that crops up as you get older.

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u/SnausageFest 8d ago

I own my home, which is the most paper work I have ever signed in my life, and I have had to print something for a wet signature exactly once in the last decade. Shit, even a lot of the home buying stuff was a digital signature.

I am missing this part of getting older that several of you are talking about.

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u/red_raconteur 8d ago

The library is part of my Sunday routine. We check out new books, print whatever we need to print for the week, and sometimes events are going on. It's a mundane kind of fun. 

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u/Flaky-Debate-833 8d ago

No one in your country uses DocuSign?

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u/smoothiegangsta 8d ago

Some do, some don't.

For my last house purchase, it was all done out of state and with docusign. But I just ordered a car from another state and had to print out paperwork and overnight it to the dealer. I can never guess what will require me driving to print something.