Paper bills used to force budgeting talks in my family

I was thinking about this over the weekend. When I was a kid, the phone bill or the electric bill would come in the mail. My parents would open it at the table and talk about it right there. It was a regular check on spending. Now with auto-pay, that whole talk is gone. Nobody in my house even sees the numbers most months. I wonder if that quiet switch makes it easier to forget what stuff really costs.