Old calendar pages as practice signatures made guiding new binders WAY easier.

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Man, that phone book paper detail is perfect. My dad did the exact same thing but with the blank sides of those mass-mailed "prize winner" notices. That super thin, slick paper really did mimic check stock, and you could get a whole stack for free from the recycling bin. It makes you wonder what other throwaway papers people used back then for practice.

pauljackson1d ago

Yeah that reminds me of my grandpa... he used to practice his signature on the blank backs of those old phone book pages. He'd fill a whole page with loops and lines, just getting the feel for it. Said the paper was thin and kind of slick, almost like bank check paper. Makes total sense now, using stuff that was just going in the trash anyway to get your hand steady before the real thing. Kind of a lost art now, with everything being digital... and I guess phone books are too.

grace271d ago

That "lost art" line from @pauljackson is so true. My signature now is just a frantic scribble that looks like a doctor's note on my credit card receipts. I tried to practice it nicely once and filled a whole page, but it just devolved into weird loops that looked like a toddler's drawing of a rollercoaster. Guess I missed the phone book paper training era.