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I can just imagine the outcry if supermarket receipts (other than from your own bank's ATM) showed you the balance of your account! Now that would be an invasion of privacy! As I have said previously, I can check my balance by accessing my bank details on my mobile phone. I realise that you...

You must have been retired from banking for a very, very long time!

Ever heard of a DEBIT CARD? It's a piece of plastic you keep in your wallet and you use it to pay for your purchases. Keep a notebook into which you write down your purchases - no computer needed!

"No power, no money, no shopping, no nothing. So much for a cashless society." What did you need cash for when you could not do any shopping because of the flood?????

Just a couple of thoughts - This is an "old farts" club for people over 60 years of age and it would be reasonable to expect that the people running this website would be in a similar age group. Has anyone ever looked at their profiles? I remember that when I was in my 30s I was of the...

I'm with you.

The signs are still there.

Hooray! Somebody has finally cottoned on that he has to INSERT the card in order to access cash - even if it needed some assistance from a staff member! It's no different to approaching the service desk at Coles, Woolies, Kmart and Target to withdraw cash - you have to insert the card to access...

The card in question is actually my credit card but it is also linked to my savings account. Apart from that, even if you use a debit card and you tap it, you will have to pay the fee. The difference is that you need to INSERT the card!

Wow! This is NOTHING compared to what we boomers used to get up to back in the 1960s! We were the generation that turned the world on its head.

I have said it a hundred times before and I will say it again. I NEVER pay a surcharge for using my card at Aldi and I shop there every week! My card is linked to my savings account and all I have to do is to insert the card in the EFTPOS gadget, select CASH and key in my PIN.

When I write a formal letter - which is rare these days, I open it with "Dear Sir, Dear Madam or Dear Sir/Madam. I never address people by their first name which I, as a European, find extremely disrespectful. I close formal letters with Yours Sincerely.

Incessantly barking dogs are a nuisance. I have had the misfortune of a noisy Dachshund living next door. His house and yard ran parallell to mine and I could not go into any room of my home that was closest to the property where that annoying beast lived, without being barked at. If I went...

Why is this even worth publishing? I really couldn't care less that this guy jumped into the pool. There are more important things to worry about than this.

Well, there is also a large proportion of young people that are completely incapable of managing anything, least of all their finances!

One of my sons asked me for a loan last year when he and his partner were buying a house. He phoned me and we chatted for a while about family stuff before he asked for the loan. I have his banking details on my online account, but I asked him to send me an email with his banking details...

Yeah, like most kids, I had the measles when I was around 2 years old as did my older sister. 25 years later, my 5 yo son and 7 months old daughter got the measles the day after we spent a day in the snow. A few years later, my younger daughter had the measles and then in the mid 90s my...

I am sure you would look pretty in a dress

Don't buy smart appliances. There, problem solved

What people have missed in this article: 1) Macquarie has 1 branch each in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth 2) Macquarie is also cutting its partnership with the NAB, which means their customers will no longer be able to use over the counter transactions at NAB branches 3)...