He's really worried now. He's just overdrawn the checking account for like the third time within a month. He's NEVER done that before. One thing I've always admired about him is his strong money management skills. We're not rich, but he doesn't waste what we've got, and until now, he's been very careful.

I think I know the problem here. It's his eyesight, not his brain. He's tech resistant and doesn't like paying bills online or by automatic withdrawal. He likes to do things the way he's always done it. He still writes paper checks. Those itty bitty check registers that come with the checkbooks... his writing is all cramped in close. He scans the list to see what checks have cleared, but he missed a couple because the writing was allintogetherlikethis and it's hard to pick one entry out from another one.

I've advised him to get a bigger book, maybe a notebook, to use as a check register. That way he can write bigger and leave more space in between, making it easier to see each individual entry. Let's just see if he listens to that suggestion, or if he blows it off too.