Anyone else struggle with this?

Aveline

Me too. I always print off boarding passes and tickets.

Me too; so much quicker getting through gates and not having to hand over my phone for others to read

Ah well, good to know I am not alone. I will continue my half in half out way of doing things 😁

I like paper copies of statements.
If I’ve bought something from Lakeland I just add a stick it note at the top of that statement with the date of my item & file it away.
I would never, ever find it on my phone.
Paper receipts, especially if I’ve forgotten to take a bag into a shop.
I like a solid vouchers, not those digital ones.
I’ve alway got note pad on the go as my memory is shocking. I know I can add notes on my phone but I do forget to look.

Brightand breezy just put them in archive in your emails. Then get the archive ready to show whoever.

But what if the device suddenly doesn't work? These things do happen.
I download travel tickets to both my phone and my tablet, both of which I take on my travels, just in case! The first few times, I even printed the ticket off too!

I've found this quite helpful;

digitalcalmlife.com/how-to-organize-your-laptop/

Perhaps you will too.

I suspect even the world can’t really decide whether to be paper or digital-based. I’m dealing with my late husband’s estate and just this week, I’ve had one party happy to send me a digital copy of information I need while another party says it’s hard copy, only, by post. They’re part of the same company yet have different policies on data. 🤷‍♀️

This all makes me so nervous, I only ever use an iPad and not sure I could navigate a laptop or pc anymore.

SueDonim

I suspect even the world can’t really decide whether to be paper or digital-based. I’m dealing with my late husband’s estate and just this week, I’ve had one party happy to send me a digital copy of information I need while another party says it’s hard copy, only, by post. They’re part of the same company yet have different policies on data. 🤷‍♀️

You are right there.

My brother and I have powers of attorney for our mum, who has gone into a care home.
When selling her house earlier this year, the estate agent insisted on seeing the original paper version of those powers of attorney. They would not accept either an official electronic code that would give them access to it online (or one of the two fully legal, legitimate paper 'copies' that were drawn up at the same time as the original). Goodness knows why not.

Not being prepared to risk mailing the original, my brother had to do a round trip of 250 miles just to show them the papers they were demanding, which was incredibly inconvenient at what was already a very stressful time.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

I get fed up of people faffing around with phones trying to find tickets for theatre, cinema etc. I just know that my phone would fail and I would have to join the throng of folks frantically trying yo locate tickets.

But one of my worst phobias is changing the cartridge on my printer....
My computer is an AppleMac and I find creating and organising documents much easier than on my husband's PC.

NinjaNan18

I am really struggling with something at the moment. I lost my Mum when I was a child. I only have one album of photos of her and me, that I have always kept in the same place. Due to a long term illness I was tidying the cupboard the album is kept in but had to stop halfway through and sleep. I put all the stuff left to sort in a bin bag to come back to it when feeling better. To cut a long story short we think my husband put the bag out on black bag collection day and I only realised 10 days after the bins were collected. It's totally my fault and I'm angry with myself but I am frustrated as well that my husband didn't look in the bag as normally he's fanatical about recycling so checks through the rubbish. I am devastated at the loss of the photos and other things of sentimental value that are also missing from the cupboard and I'm struggling because I'm an only child and there's no-one alive in my life now who knew and remembers my Mum. I even did a crazy thing for me and paid a psychic who said she can find lost objects. Of course it was a scam, which in my right mind I'd never have fallen for. But that's just it, I'm not in my right mind now. It's like the grief hitting me all over again as the photo album woukd have bern on my list of things you grab in a house fire. How could I be so careless. Please don't make my mistake. Copy precious old photos so they can be stored electronically incase anything happens to the originals.

Oh dear, I was so sad to read your story. Of course it's too late to do anything differently now those things are all gone. I am also an only child and understand how you would feel, although in my case it's the opposite because both my parents were hoarders of letters and photos so I really have too many (if that's possible). But I can understand how devastated you must feel losing those precious things. 💐

You might feel a bit better if you write up your mother's life story because this will help you dig up those half forgotten memories and record them before it's too late. You don't mention whether you have children but even if you don't the act of writing about her will help you on a personal level. You can then read it later on for a little trip down memory lane.

What a good idea Chestnut.