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Ill start, I never used a check. The only way I can get a house is waiting for my parents to die.

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[โ€“] JCPhoenix 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I bought a few boxes of checks when I started working. I still have most of them.

In the first several years of working, I mailed in paper income tax returns. The govt would even send the blank forms out to everyone via postal mail. I think paper submissions were the norm, though electronic filing certainly existed.

[โ€“] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I figured that efiling started in the mid-2000s. Nope, 1986. I was not paying attention.

[โ€“] JCPhoenix 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah it was waaaaay earlier, which I found out too when I was writing my comment. But I did start working in the early/mid 2000s, when I was 16. Even in 2000s, it was still typical to go to the public library and grab tax forms. Or print them out from the IRS website.