What’s a Fax Machine?

Posted by Shelley on Aug 15, 2007 • (0)

Noah Kagan asks his Okdork.com audience What’s a Fax Machine? and Why is There a Fax Number on Your Business Card? I replied to Noah’s question on Okdork. I had to buy a fax machine last week. I find this to be embarrassing in light of all the new technology we’ve invested in around this household. Here’s the scoop:

I had to buy a friggin’ fax machine this week. I was almost embarrassed to take it out of the UPS guy’s hands when he delivered it.

I have to fax in forms and receipts to get reimbursed for medical expenses through my husband’s pre-tax medical spending account. He doesn’t want to fax the documentation from work and I’m sick of scanning all the pages into a file to fax from my PC. So, now every few weeks I will plug in the friggin’ fax machine, fill out the MSA forms and fax it all off so we can get reimbursed.

What an archaic method of documentation. At least I got the fax machine dirt cheap and new off of eBay. And, when we do our next real estate transaction it will be handy to have the friggin’ fax machine because we were faxing offers and counter-offers back and forth for last year’s buy and sell which again required scanning and faxing from the PC. I get sick of scanning stuff…so I’m now in the minority of home fax machine owners. But, I’ll hide my fax machine next to the phone jack in the basement.

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