Paperless World

Well Ya see. It's like this.

Raymond Baxter. A brilliant TV presenter and nice guy.

To give you a bit of help with this, he also presented Tomorrow's World in the 1970’s for quite some time.

But, he lied to me. Yep. He lied.

In one of the TW programmes he said;

"By the year 2000 we will be in a Paperless Society".

Sorry old love, not so.
An example. It's only Thursday.
Already I have had to empty my wallet of 'Till and Debit card' receipts.

Twenty Seven in total!
The shortest is 7cm long. The longest 36cm long.
I have estimated, by the end of the year, I will have collected enough paper to rebuild the tree they came from.
Probably a winter one, coz I have problems making the leaves look real.
So why do I need so much information on a receipt?
The long one gives me 57 lines of information.
Two of the lines explain what VAT means.
Not the value. Just what the letters stand for. Why?
I only need 6 lines of information.
It's worse with a credit card statement.
They take three sheets of A4  paper to explain what it all means. Both sides!!
All I'm interested in is;

How much I didn't pay off last month.

How much I'm paying in interest

How much I spent this month

What is the minimum I can pay off, if I don't clear it.
Contact phone number and address.
Five lines. OK. Ten at tops.
Why do I need so much pigging paper all the time?