There's an article about paying with cash costing Americans money.
Not the surface kind of answer, but the fact people are paying fees to pay with cash. I can't figure out if the gist of the article is to go cashless or just reporting. I don't trust media anymore because gone are the days when they just reported the facts...so many stories are so biased.
Here is the URL:
http://www.today.com/money/paying-cash-costs-americans-200-billion-year-8C11363366
This has been a nice weekend, but I have spent money. We walked around our downtown area yesterday. We have lots of small locally owned shops. I like the idea of supporting local small businesses. One place had 20% off things and I did buy quite a few things, but they were things I would have purchased anyway. Two things were presents so saving the 20% was nice. We also went to a local wine store. We aren't wine drinkers, but we were looking around for a nice bottle to give as a present and found one, I think, this person will like. We made our way to the grocery store and came home so I could begin supper.
Today we hit a flea market and an antique mall. We didn't spend much, but we had a nice time looking. We came home to get to work.
DH picked cherry tomatoes. I dried parsley and put it in a jar for this winter. After DH brought in the tomatoes, I washed them and went out and picked some of the onions we have left, some basil, and DH picked a bell pepper. I made two quarts of tomato sauce...that is a lot of cherry tomatoes for that much sauce!
We had sloppy chicks for supper (sloppy joes made with ground chicken) and I used half of a quart of sauce. The leftovers will be lunches for this week. But, I will now have 11 quarts of tomato sauce in the freezer. Not bad for those little tomatoes!
Paying with cash article
October 13th, 2013 at 11:14 pm
October 14th, 2013 at 01:27 am 1381714044
October 14th, 2013 at 01:35 am 1381714536
I pay cash for 95% of all my spending over rent and living expenses but I don't spend 28 minutes a month at the bank, nor do I get cash anywhere I would have to pay a fee. Why anyone would pay a fee to access their own money is beyond me.
Cash is still king.
October 14th, 2013 at 08:51 am 1381740684
October 14th, 2013 at 03:01 pm 1381762887
I know the poor often seem to be paying more for things. I get the idea of the article about the poor having to pay to get cash, but I wondered if the underlying thought behind the article was to go to cashless society. Our state was one of 17 that had problems with the Link card on Saturday. This was not due to the government shut down, but an issue with the agency that ran the computer technology behind it. It was a mess for those who wanted groceries because they couldn't use their card and they wondered what they would do for food.