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Post by Confessor on Mar 20, 2021 16:27:04 GMT -5
I still use cash a lot, although less so than normal through this pandemic because doing contactless debit card payments is safer than handling cash and partly due to my lack of work (with is usually cash in hand work). But under normal pre-COVID conditions, I use cash almost all the time.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 20, 2021 16:38:41 GMT -5
I don’t trust tech. Because of some embarrassing few times it’s put me on the spot. I use my card mostly as some have mentioned due to Covid. But I always keep at least $100 cash in my wallet as backup.
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Post by impulse on Mar 20, 2021 17:24:12 GMT -5
I don’t trust tech. Because of some embarrassing few times it’s put me on the spot. I use my card mostly as some have mentioned due to Covid. But I always keep at least $100 cash in my wallet as backup. I almost never use cash and rarely have it, but this is still good practice that I should really do more consistently. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2021 19:41:19 GMT -5
I don’t trust tech. Because of some embarrassing few times it’s put me on the spot. I use my card mostly as some have mentioned due to Covid. But I always keep at least $100 cash in my wallet as backup.
I used to do that too, until Covid. Now it's more like $20, and I hardly ever use even that.
Pre-Covid, one of the last times I went to a big cineplex, they didn't even have a cash register - the young girl had to dig out a kind of money belt from some cupboard behind the counter and laboriously make change for me. I felt like I must be about 150 years old.
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Post by majestic on Mar 20, 2021 20:04:38 GMT -5
I keep $20-60 in my wallet. 95% of the time I don't need it. But there are some occasions like a roadside stand where they only take cash. Or I don't feel like using a card for something less than $5. Or the card machine is on the fritz at a store.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 20, 2021 20:08:23 GMT -5
I seem to have slipped into a time warp.
I use plastic for everything. At the start of the pandemic, when we were all trying not to touch anything we didn't have to, I had my cashcard on the end of an old con lanyard round my neck which meant I could do contactless without even having to fanny about getting it out of my wallet.
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Post by majestic on Mar 20, 2021 20:13:57 GMT -5
I seem to have slipped into a time warp. Rural areas lag behind cities with any new technology. My parents did not get their first landline until the 1960s. Even now it's tough getting decent internet access. |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 20, 2021 21:22:50 GMT -5
I seem to have slipped into a time warp. I use plastic for everything. At the start of the pandemic, when we were all trying not to touch anything we didn't have to, I had my cashcard on the end of an old con lanyard round my neck which meant I could do contactless without even having to fanny about getting it out of my wallet. I think a lot of people here in Britain are like you in that respect. I think you're the norm. And card payments were definitely on the increase even before the pandemic; as someone who almost always pays in cash, I'd noticed that more and more often throughout 2018 and 2019 I was being automatically offered a card payment machine by staff in shops or restaurants, and they were sometimes visibly surprised when I said I'd be paying in cash. My wife barely ever has any cash on her and basically does everything on her card, and I suspect that that's the case for the majority now. For me, 19 times out of 20 I get paid in cash after a gig, so I always have it on my person. I'm not adverse to using a card at all and do so on occasion in face to face interactions. But usually it's cash. On a side note...I gave a few pound coins to a homeless guy on my local high street last week, but I heard a number of folks ahead of me saying that they didn't have any cash on them. Now, while I'm sure that some just say that to get out of having to give something, I'm also sure that its true for the majority of people walking down a high street nowadays. So, I got to wondering about how our race towards a cashless society impacts the poorest and most vulnerable in that society. I mean, it must be even tougher to scrape together some loose change as a beggar today than it ever was (and it was never exactly easy!). Even at the less "extreme poverty" end of the spectrum, a lot of the poorest people in our society don't have a bank account. So, cash is essential for them. I also think physical cash is easier to manage and budget with, especially for people with learning difficulties or those who perhaps didn't do well at school and may not be very numerate. One thing's for sure though, physical cash has a much greater emotional cache and "punch" than a credit card. I think it's much more satisfying to be given a big wadge of notes by another human being than to be told, "I've transferred your money to you." It's also much easier to tempt people when you're bartering or negotiating a price if you wave a load of notes in their face. In my experience, money still talks in a way that a credit card simply doesn't. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 20, 2021 21:41:13 GMT -5
I keep $20-60 in my wallet. 95% of the time I don't need it. But there are some occasions like a roadside stand where they only take cash. Or I don't feel like using a card for something less than $5. Or the card machine is on the fritz at a store. Im irrationally irritated by the younger generations that pay for a $1 coffee with a card. Seriously you don’t even have a dollar on you?!?! 🤣 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 21:42:03 GMT -5
I use both cash and card. I don't like using my card everywhere, not with credit card fraud the way it is. So I always have an ample supply of actual cash.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 20, 2021 22:19:02 GMT -5
I keep $20-60 in my wallet. 95% of the time I don't need it. But there are some occasions like a roadside stand where they only take cash. Or I don't feel like using a card for something less than $5. Or the card machine is on the fritz at a store. Im irrationally irritated by the younger generations that pay for a $1 coffee with a card. Seriously you don’t even have a dollar on you?!?! 🤣 Let me know where you can buy a coffee for a buck. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 21, 2021 0:16:11 GMT -5
I keep $20-60 in my wallet. 95% of the time I don't need it. But there are some occasions like a roadside stand where they only take cash. Or I don't feel like using a card for something less than $5. Or the card machine is on the fritz at a store. Im irrationally irritated by the younger generations that pay for a $1 coffee with a card. Seriously you don’t even have a dollar on you?!?! 🤣 Once more, I used to feel the same way until Covid but now I've swung round to the opposite POV. Now I feel like, "How dare you ask someone touch your filthy personal effects! What, you never heard of the tap?" |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2021 1:00:28 GMT -5
I rarely use cash anymore, the only place I used cash often was at conventions where I set my budget as what cash I had on hand and wouldn't break out the card for anything. But outside of cons, I pretty much use a card exclusively, especially since we get cash back or points for using the cards we have. I usually keep a fiver or a ten spot in my wallet just in case. We do still keep a petty cash fund at the house for paying the lawn guy or if we have someone shovel the driveway in the winter, but pretty much everything else is either card or direct payment through our bank accounts. Of course, part of it is that my wife is a banker and has come to see cash as the nastiest, dirtiest, vilest thing on earth from her experiences with many, many customers over the years and even from the condition of money shipped to the bank for use. She lost count of the number of times she got ringworm just from handling cash at the bank.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 21, 2021 2:26:09 GMT -5
Most Mel Brooks films that aren't Young Frankenstein suffer from the same problems, in my opinion: musical skits that aren't that funny and last too long, too many potty jokes used willy-nilly, many jokes that just aren't funny and should have been left on the cutting room's floor, and too many references to things that are quickly dated. They compensate with an iconoclastic take on things, successful fourth wall-breaking gags and plenty of quotable lines. Mel roughly strikes a .500 in my book; I often like the idea of his films more than the films themselves. (Kind of like James Bond flicks, really). I thought that History of the World Part 1 was a great film. Very uneven films, but the high points are absolutely legendary. It's good to be the king... |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 21, 2021 7:51:17 GMT -5
I thought that History of the World Part 1 was a great film. Very uneven films, but the high points are absolutely legendary. It's good to be the king... Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition is sheer song parody perfection. A bunch of us would dance along singing it at school. |
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