Cash is a good thing!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like using "cash" as in spending only the money you have, and not using credit for daily purchases. I am not really a "spender" though, so my purchases are limited to things like groceries, gas, the occasional haircut, now and again a fabric trip. :D All of these things are at LEAST $40-$50 a shot...and if it's the weekly trip to the grocery, over a hundred easy. I just couldn't walk around with that kinda money on me.

HOWEVER, smaller things like a pastry and coffee, out to lunch with friends, stuff that's $20 or less I would buy with cash. And I think it's more accurate AND good manners for it to be counted back.

My husband helped in concession stand last night with our grand daughters softball team. They were 8 and 9 year olds and he was trying to teach them how to do the math in order to give change-not an easy task.
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I worked as a car hop in my teens, and learned early and fast how to give change. You do NOT have to figure out how much is left, you simply start counting FROM the amount owed and go on to the amount handed you. Someone gives you 20 dollars for a seventeen dollar 55 cent purchase...start handing back 2 dimes and count ==65--75 (then a quarter) eighteen (NOW 2 dollar bills)nineteen== twenty dollars. Thank you for shopping with us, have a nice day.

If you work kids like that, using real change and bills, it'll soon become easy for them.

A month or so ago I stopped at a yard sale, gave a late teen girl a 5 dollar bill AND A QUARTER for a 4.25 cent purchase, expecting to get a dollar back because she had a mass of ones in her cash box. She stood there looking at that quarter and holding the 5 dollar bill in the other hand....an adult male from her house finally suggested she give me a one dollar bill. He didn't look any too happy, just looked at me and shrugged. I could see him talking to her in the rear view mirror...she didn't look like she wanted to learn either!!

And speaking about old fashioned paying...have you noticed that some stores, like Costco, have some of those very old fashioned vacuum pipes that you put cash in and it sucks it up to a hidden room? They had that working well when I was a kid, which was a LONG time ago. If it works, use it. It'll take the biggest stash of cash out of the way of criminals, they might get a smaller amount but the greatest haul is in a safe place till the armored cars pick it up.

Used to be the clerk wrote up your sale, added up the total and sent it off to the office. Where, presumably, they used a calculator that needed cranking? And if the clerk was off the total (wonder if she/he got mandatory math lessons before being allowed to count cash again?) the correct number was written on the tag and the correct change returned, which was then handed to the customer. In the mean time the clerk and customer..in our town most likely to be neighbors or kin folks or both...would be able to chat with each other or other customers, who would, in the main, be calmly looking around and doing some chatting themselves.

I agree but that's what we've created. Gotta love technology. One of the schools here in indiana has even taken cursive writing out the school, and replaced it with typing. Who can blame them. When was the last time you signed your name? Me about 2 weeks ago, the store was low tech and only ran debits as credits, so I had to sign...I found it annoying. See we make thing the way they are and then we complain. Really give this a ponder and we've no right to complain, we support this behavior by owning a computer and chatting on this board.

Not likely because people have bank cards now, I hardly every carry cash and just lost my bank card, and i feel awkward without it. Me personally if I carry cash, I spend too much, misplace it, or too often lose it so I don't carry it unless it has a specific purpose that I need it for. Cards just make things so much more convenient

when my son was inmiddle school and high school,he graduated 2000.he wasnt allowed to turn in hand written reports,they had to typed or done on a computer.teachers didnt want to have to try to read the kids handwriting.And I honestly thiink because of that his hand writing is terrible

when my son was inmiddle school and high school,he graduated 2000.he wasnt allowed to turn in hand written reports,they had to typed or done on a computer.teachers didnt want to have to try to read the kids handwriting.And I honestly thiink because of that his hand writing is terrible[/quote]
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Not necessarily so. When my youngest son was in kindergarten he got shifted part time to another class because he already was reading at 3rd grade level. They tested him as being gifted. But they did say that an intelligent kid is a nosey kid and his mind will most likely always work faster than his manual dexterity..which means that most highly intelligent folks will have horrid hand writing. And unfortunately, nowadays it is not really necessary except for signing contracts and checks.

And on reading his notes on BD and other cards, I can sympathize with teachers, they have masses of kids' reports to read and they simply do not have the time to teach each and every one of the class to write legibly by hand.

I use my debit card for most everything. I stuff the receipt. I also check my account the next day after purchases to see what has cleared the bank. It doesn't matter if I take the time to write it down at POS, I probably wouldn't do the math right then and there anyhow. At the end of the month or any point during the month, I can print out a pie chart or other form of financial breakdown showing me just where my money was spent.

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Not necessarily so. When my youngest son was in kindergarten he got shifted part time to another class because he already was reading at 3rd grade level. They tested him as being gifted. But they did say that an intelligent kid is a nosey kid and his mind will most likely always work faster than his manual dexterity..which means that most highly intelligent folks will have horrid hand writing. And unfortunately, nowadays it is not really necessary except for signing contracts and checks.

And on reading his notes on BD and other cards, I can sympathize with teachers, they have masses of kids' reports to read and they simply do not have the time to teach each and every one of the class to write legibly by hand.[/quote]

Made me chuckle! If it is true that horrid hand writing is a sign of highly intelligent folks, then I am brilliant. :lol: :lol: