Do you still carry cash?

[Jazzy]

How often do you still pay for things in cash?

 

[Lamb]

I rarely carry cash, but now that a lot of local businesses and restaurants are charging more to use credit cards, we're switching back to cash.

 

[Castle Church]

I always carry $100 in a secret pocket of my wallet as an emergency stash. You never know when you may need it in a pinch, if you have to take a taxi or uber and you need to get somewhere fast it can make a difference ("$100 tip to get me to X in 15 minutes"), that never happened to me yet.....but I have been to places a couple of times where the POS system is not working so they can only take cash.

 

[Stephen]

How often do you still pay for things in cash?

Yes I carry cash. Some shops where I live only take cash.

 

[Josiah]

Maybe $20 or so.... but that 20 may stay in my wallet for weeks. I just don't use cash.

 

[tango]

I've started using cash more and more. It's clean, it's easy, it means a local business get to keep all of their money rather than the banks taking a 3% slice of absolutely everything, and it means cash stays on the radar.

When the banks take a 3% cut of every transaction it doesn't take very many transactions before the banks own more of the proceeds than the businesses that are selling real useful things. If you use a $20 bill it's worth $20 however many times it changes hands. And it stops the government from having any access to exactly what is traded and when.

 

[Forgiven1]

A small amount. My husband carries more than I do. I don't like using a credit card for those small purchase.