Has anyone gone mostly paperless, disliked it, and gone back to paper?

[Tradd]

I'm at that point.

All bills are paperless. But it seems like my money is just ether and I actually miss the old ritual of writing out checks for my bills and keeping up with my checkbook. Call me weird...

I'm something of a Luddite and old-fashioned. Friends have said they enjoy getting letters and cards again!

You?

[Zoe Girl]

I don't know,. I have gone paperless for so much already but I really was thinking about going farther. I have most all my reading material on my nook right now, don't miss books except checking them out at the library (I still do that). And now I went through papers again and still have 3 file boxes. I was thinking about those scanners that basically turn all your documents into files and you can get rid of paper! I am really thinking about that and wondering if anyone has tried it and what they think. I may even cut way down on the photo albums, which is sacriligeous in my family but I don't like my small space clutterd

[Jemima]

I'm at that point.

All bills are paperless. But it seems like my money is just ether and I actually miss the old ritual of writing out checks for my bills and keeping up with my checkbook. Call me weird...

I'm something of a Luddite and old-fashioned. Friends have said they enjoy getting letters and cards again!

You?

Your money IS just ether. It's only worth what you can buy with it. Money isn't wealth. Wealth is good food, clean water, adequate and safe shelter, family, friends, and caring, decent neighbors. I don't miss writing checks in the least and have almost all of my bills on auto-pilot.

I've gone almost completely paperless, keeping only those documents that are difficult or expensive to replace, such as my birth cerificate, copies of insurance policies and such, which are stashed in a safety deposit box. I love it. I keep receipts only long enough to be sure that I'm satisfied with a product. Copies of tax returns get trashed after three years. (All digital documents are backed up.)

The only paperless item that doesn't seem to satisfy is books. Kindle books are a great idea, but anything I might want to re-read or reference I prefer in hard copy. The frivolous stuff is fine as a Kindle.

As for cards and letters, yeah, I really do prefer the old fashioned way except for friends who email daily with chit-chat. Even those can be printed out and filed, if necessary.

[Gregg]

I've gone about as far as I can in the paperless world. If not for a few customers who happen to be government entities that require mounds of paper and my daughter's school lunches that require checks (or I could hand cash to a 16 year old...yea, right!) I would not be completely paperless. My accountant was thrilled to get a few concise reports rather than a banker's box of receipts at tax time. I consider this just one more step in my decluttering process.