A signature guide can help you get around the difficulties of signing your name on receipts, cheques and forms.
Signature guides
Many banks now provide free signature guides - usually a credit card-sized piece of plastic with a cut-out rectangular window for you to sign your name within. If your bank won't provide a signature guide, we can sell you one. Our black signature guide is made from a durable plastic and is priced at 45p (ex VAT) and 54p (inc VAT).
We also sell a wallet containing both a signature guide and note check (to help you identify different denominations of bank note). Priced £1.35 (ex VAT) and £1.62 (inc VAT), it's available from our online shop or by calling us on 0303 123 9999.
Get your cheque book the right way up
Mrs Jones from Bournemouth suggests a cheap way to identify which way up pension books and chequebooks are. "I use a lot of bump-ons on my computer, cooker and washing machine but they're expensive. When I need to sign cheques or my pension book I have a cheap way to make sure the book is the right way up: I buy sheets of coloured labels from WH Smith. You get about 500 in a pack and stick them in the bottom right-hand corner of the book then I can feel for the label when I come to use the book. I also find them indispensable to find side one of an audio tape."
RNIB can sell you single sheets of 56 bump-ons, all of the same shape and colour, or a pack of mixed shape bump-ons (DL42) which contains seven round yellow bump-ons, six square black bump-ons, seven large dome head clear bumpons and six small dome head clear bump-ons - available from RNIB's Online Shop or call RNIB on 0303 123 9999.
Hugh Dorrian from County Down had this to add: "I get the post mistress to cut the top right hand corner off my new pension books, so I know when it is facing me the top corner is cut off."