These Common Household Objects Will Be Obsolete In a Few Short Years

Paper Bills

Most bill paying companies now give you the option to pay online. Seeing a reminder on our phones is much easier than trying to remember where exactly you set that envelope down three weeks ago. Not to mention that going paperless is more environmentally friendly.

Cash Registers

With cash becoming the least popular way to pay, and self-checkout the preferred method of quick transactions, cashiers and cash registers will both be out of a job soon. If there are cashiers, most use technology like Square, a card reader that connects to your phone. Cash is really on its way out thanks to all of these quick paying advancements.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.