discussion When was the last time you handled cash?

[BattleshipBob]

Today in local Tesco, £15.70

Took a while to recover, all that loot in one go:thinking:

 

[Dave Ward]

And when did you last write a cheque? I can't remember!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dave

 

[prichrd1]

Cash - today - drew some folding stuff out a hole in the wall, paid for postage on eBay sales.

August 2012 - last time I wrote on a cheque - to pay for some supplies!! :smiling2:

Paul.
:smiling2:

 

[Mini Me]

Wrote a check last week for my haircut. usually pay cash for everything whenever possible.........I like using cash and coin as it requires someone else to be there to help carry out the transaction...............that my friends is called "commerce".

 

[boatman]

writeing a cheque? every month for our house rent

 

[Allen Dewire]

Excluding Traveller's Cheques, it was 1982. Wrote a check to pay my rent and it bounced...Twice!!! The funny part was I had 5 times the amount of the check in my bank account. I went to the bank, showed them the bounced checks and asked why. After a sort of stupid answer from the manager, I not so politely closed my account (I called him an idiot among other things). No checks were written since then, even with my new bank which offered me a checking acount………...………...

 

[Guest]

And when did you last write a cheque? I can't remember!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can’t even get cheques anymore in the Netherlands, to the best of my knowledge. Cashing one was a pain in the arse even twenty years ago, when I occasionally got one as payment from the USA.

 

[colin m]

Two days ago. £40.00 for 10 bags of compost - delivered. Although, the funny thing was, the wife, had to remind me I had £100 squirreled away in a draw upstairs. Did I, oh yes, it seems I did.

 

[Fernando N]

Sorry folks, I can't remember when, but at my age now I can't afford cash!!! I have to pay with the card to get by…………………..

Didn’t you let some of it go at SMC last year, or was it counterfeit? :tongue-out3:

Come to think of it, maybe the last time it paid something in cash too, all in cards and PayPal nowadays…:thinking:

 

[Allen Dewire]

Damn Fernando, You are so right!!! The Rabo Bank ATM in Riethoven and me were one a first name basis last year!!! Every morning it was "how much can I have today". I think my Visa card is still burning…...

Allen

 

[PaulTRose]

Two days ago. £40.00 for 10 bags of compost - delivered. Although, the funny thing was, the wife, had to remind me I had £100 squirreled away in a draw upstairs. Did I, oh yes, it seems I did.

kind of worrying that she knows where your secret stash fund is hidden :surprised::surprised::smiling4:

 

[boatman]

kind of worrying that she knows where your secret stash fund is hidden :surprised::surprised::smiling4:

MOVE IT QUICK LOL

 

[colin m]

MOVE IT QUICK LOL

Too late, it's gone.

 

[boatman]

Too late, it's gone.

SWMBO 1 = Colin 0 :rolling: :loudly-crying:

 

[Peter Gillson]

Pre-lockdown cash was used mainly for my haircut (remember those?) and few odd things under a fiver, but we mostly use it buying 'hedge veg'.

Not sure how common this is elsewhere but it is very popular here. Many people with surplus produce from their gardens etc put it on their hedge for sale. you put the money in a 'honesty box', often their pox box, and take the stuff. Yesterday we bought a chilli plant. A chap along our road sells new potatoes, a lady a bit further along normally sells cherries, one around the corner used to sell green beans and melons.

For these cash is the only option.
peter

 

[Mini Me]

Good to see a bit of commerce amongst neighbors.
Cheers, Rick H.

 

[stillp]

I give the kids a cheque for birthdays and Christmas.
Pete

 

[Guest]

'hedge veg'.

Not sure how common this is elsewhere but it is very popular here. Many people with surplus produce from their gardens etc put it on their hedge for sale. you put the money in a 'honesty box', often their pox box, and take the stuff.

Something similar is very common with farms in my area, at least the ones that are on roads where there’s a reasonable amount of traffic: they put up some kind of stall by the side of the road with some of their produce in it, plus a little box for the money. They’re typically wooden structures not very big, sort of like a medium-sized cupboard, but one farm I know has put up a small garden shed complete with a two-piece door.

 

[Peter Gillson]

About 1 hour ago. Fruit box from our friendly fruit and veg merchant. He was wholesale before the lock down but partly to offset his lost trade and partly because he's a really nice guy he has started selling veg, fruit, salad boxes from his warehouse on the industrial estate. Before that it was the window cleaner last Thursday.
Jim

Hi Jim. The company which normally supplies hotels and resuarants is doing a similar thing; taking orders and delivering to the public.. it's really nice to get all of our fruit and veg delivered, although because they are so popular their own van cannot cope and it is strange to have our veg delivered by taxi!

Peter

 

[Peter Gillson]

Something similar is very common with farms in my area, at least the ones that are on roads where there’s a reasonable amount of traffic: they put up some kind of stall by the side of the road with some of their produce in it, plus a little box for the money. They’re typically wooden structures not very big, sort of like a medium-sized cupboard, but one farm I know has put up a small garden shed complete with a two-piece door.

Jakko - same here, when we have some to sell we use a cardboard box, while others have more permanent structures. The guy who sells the melons as a metre long length off 10ch steel tube, you drop the cash in the top, and he has a padlocked door at the bottom to take the cash out.

peter