Things that can be achieved from home using a home computer, an internet connection and a debit card

I agree about needing it less and less, but being old fashioned I recently had to minute our TAS committee meeting and had to print the minutes off to proofread them. There is still something about the written word on paper!
I also kept hard copy of all the letters I had to send after my husband died, just to keep on file.
And I use it a lot though for printing off labels for sending stuff as we no longer have a post office in the village and a 2-3 mile drive, finding somewhere to park and queuing up in a local town’s PO does not appeal.

We have two printers in our house!

DH has a scanner/printer linked to his PC and I have one linked to mine, they are both networked, so that even if I was out of the home, I could print something from my phone. (Though that would be a very rare occurance indeed!) ?

It's a throwback from my teaching days, when I was always studying and needed to hand in assignments.
I suppose being a geek also has something to do with it.

eConsult with the doctor. We have used it a lot and resolved so many issues or set things in motion over the past two years very quickly.

Recently, one very urgent one. Within 3 days of filling in the eConsult form plus photographs, I had an appointment at the hospital's skin clinic.

Printers have a short life span in this house. So anything I need printed I e-mail to DD who only lives 15 mins away and she prints it for me.
I do everything on my phone, the laptop I had I gave to ny son when his broke.

Lucca we have iPads too and a printer, I can print remotely from my phone should I need to. I used the printer yesterday for my voluntary work, I find it easier to look thorough a list of clients on a hard copy than on the screen Maw. There is a laptop in the house, rarely used though.

Brand new Car.. Order, paying, sorting costs out, signing all the paperwork, everything that a local dealer would do, and saving about 4k.
To a sparkling new car pitching up on the back of a trailer to my house.
It was a first for me, and painless.

Could never pick up stitches properly, to form a collar, or a band, in knitting. Thanks to Hannah on You Tube, did it perfectly. Have learnt to cook authentic Spanish and German dishes from You Tube too. Kept me going through lockdown, and well as Duolingo and on line education from Future Learn. Couldn’t have done all this even 10 years ago.

Jaxjacky

Lucca we have iPads too and a printer, I can print remotely from my phone should I need to. I used the printer yesterday for my voluntary work, I find it easier to look thorough a list of clients on a hard copy than on the screen Maw. There is a laptop in the house, rarely used though.

Yes I know but I rarely need to print!

I used Royal Mail pick up when it was free but you have to pay for it now.

Tax returns. Car tax. Passport. Driving licence. Access Medical history. The list goes on. ?

I think it’s about 70p - less than it would cost me to drive to a Post Office!

Transfer money to hard up child !

Marydoll

Crossed posts, Maw! ?

Ah, but the bit about Italy was useful additional information.

Buying clothes, shoes, kitchen equipment, and loads of plants for the garden from the TV shopping channels.
I use my tablet and phone linked to the printer, if I need a label etc. I had an email from DSiL and printed him a returns label when his printer was on the blink. He only lives 5 minutes along the street so he popped in to collect it.
I honestly couldn't imagine life without the Internet these days.

It appears that one could actually get a (small?) book printed and some copies sent to oneself, one copy to The British Library for Legal Deposit, five copies to the Agent for the other five Legal Deposit Libraries and some others to whoever, all from a home computer without going out of the door!

Welshwife

DG who lives in USA is 21 next week so this morning I have sent him a personalised card via Moonpig and then a cash amount via PayPal and DS. That way they get dollars and I pay in Sterling.

Is there a limit to the amount one can send to the US via PayPal, do you know?
I currently have a cheque in the post to my family in the US. Barclays refuse to transfer 4.000 bps - I need to go into the bank (with my passport or other verifying means of identification) to do that, apparently. NOT that they actually tell you they can't/won't do a transfer for that amount on their website. Oh no! They've credited the money back to my a/c - and charged me 4.00 for the privilege.grrrrr
Beyond peed off by this, actually.

I am doing a PhD pretty much online!

Longrunkaren

I am doing a PhD pretty much online!

Tell us more please!
Who is your provider?
How are you finding it, doing it remotely?
Thank you!

I would be interested to hear too. I only needed another year to finish a PhD, but it was not to be, as the subject would have been based on my work with challenging children and I had to retire on ill health. ?

Registering players to play for a football club, recording your results, entering your team stats, affiliating your team. None of this can be done without a computer. It was much easier for a club Secretary in the old days. Now the paid staff at the FA don’t do any of this anymore and it all has to be done by volunteers on a system that frequently fails. It gets revamped but doesn’t improve. As a business model it’s not good.

Ok rant over. It’s that time of year.

Epson printers have excellent Quality.

Yes it must be possible to do a PhD online- look at how widely known 'The Open University' is.

Nannan2

Yes it must be possible to do a PhD online- look at how widely known 'The Open University' is.

I too would like to know. Are we heading for a special thread?

Also, as well as what is usually thought of as the route to a PhD there is also PhD by Previously Published Work that some universities offer, some to only their own graduates, but at least one offers to graduates, specifically not only their own graduates.

online consultations with private GP's including receiving prescription by post/courier....also getting some prescription/pharmacy meds by online consultation. Same with the vet.

alishka I send money to DS in the USA using wise.com
The exchange rate is good and a transfer started in the morning is in the recipient’s bank account later in the day. As long as you have their bank details it’s a doddle.

Nannan2

Epson printers have excellent Quality.

I do a lot of colour printing and the Epson Eco ET 2750 has been a revelation. More expensive to buy in the first instance but extremely economical with ink.

Something that has changed is the ability to subscribe to monitoring ink refill services. Those can save a lot of money.

Also, being able to subscribe to downloadable digital imaging software rather than having to buy it on disks and CDs.