Re: How do I approach my currency revamp issues?

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:19:46 -0400, "Bruce Remick" <remick@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Most people don't really need to use a card, except maybe for ordering stuff
online or over the phone. But every year there are more and more things
that can be paid for with plastic or electronically that before long one
could go for quite a while before encountering a situation where a card
won't be accepted.

Doesn't really matter to me. The fact that cards are *accepted* in
most places doesn't really mean much. They're much less convenient to
use than money, transactions tend to be slower. Ubiquity doesn't make
for need to use, in my opinion.

Ironic that you see no need for plastic yet always use it at the gas
station.

Ironic, maybe. It's the *one* place where plastic transactions are
actually faster than cash transactions. And that's only because of the
need for so much going in and out of the shop for cash transactions.
If they still had full service stations, I wouldn't use plastic to buy
gas either, unless I had one of those 5% off cards!

Up until my epiphany last month, I always paid cash for gas and
used my card only for online purchases and on occasional overseas trips,
zeroing it out with each monthly bill.

Anyone who uses plastic, no matter how much, would do well to pay it
off each month!

We even still pay our bills by mail
with a check, just like we did 50 years ago.

I do too. Those that can't be paid in person, anyway. Electronic
payment, for all the advertising hype, is just too much of a hassle.

I may not live long enough to
see the time when cash will become a mere option, but my daughter probably
will. We're pretty close now.

Well, it's been a "mere option" for decades. All depends on your
lifestyle. If your daughter spends her time and money in the mall and
online, chances are good she'll never even need cash money. I don't
buy much online and most of the places I do spend money don't take
plastic, or plastic acceptance is hit and miss. Or simply
unneccessary.

Padraic







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