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October 17, 2016

Balancing checkbooks: Here's how financial chores have changed

  • Technology has obliterated or automated a lot of the money tasks that were once mandatory for people who wanted to be responsible with their finances.
  • By LIZ WESTON
    NerdWallett Columnist

    Photo courtesy National Park Service [enlarge]
    Get this: People used to stand in lines to give banks their money.

    Think about how difficult it was to clean a house 100 years ago, or make a phone call, or travel across the country.


     
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