Only a very small proportion of my payments are in cash these days and I think the last cheque I wrote was about 3 years ago. I have two pound coins in my pocket and I think that’s all the cash I’ve had for about a month. These are unusual times in that we are trying to minimise the shopping we do in person, i.e. I’m unlikely to nip out to the shops for a few pounds worth of veggies, which might possibly be a cash transaction – but even so. My mum died a few years back and she never got the hang of her debit card. With her, everything was cash or cheque. I think the card was not only complicated, it also had a faint odour of credit and debt about it. She would have hated the prohibitions on cash. I think there must be many like her.
I had to hunt out our cheque book when confinement started as we’re having to do a lot of payments by cheque. I couldn’t even remember what colour it was.
I’ve not written a cheque since October 2019. The one before that was written in April 2019. I haven’t handled cash since 31st March when the pharmacist called round with a prescription I had to pay for. Credit card points are building up nicely. Silver linings and all that.
Only a very small proportion of my payments are in cash these days and I think the last cheque I wrote was about 3 years ago. I have two pound coins in my pocket and I think that’s all the cash I’ve had for about a month. These are unusual times in that we are trying to minimise the shopping we do in person, i.e. I’m unlikely to nip out to the shops for a few pounds worth of veggies, which might possibly be a cash transaction – but even so. My mum died a few years back and she never got the hang of her debit card. With her, everything was cash or cheque. I think the card was not only complicated, it also had a faint odour of credit and debt about it. She would have hated the prohibitions on cash. I think there must be many like her.
I had to hunt out our cheque book when confinement started as we’re having to do a lot of payments by cheque. I couldn’t even remember what colour it was.
I’ve not written a cheque since October 2019. The one before that was written in April 2019. I haven’t handled cash since 31st March when the pharmacist called round with a prescription I had to pay for. Credit card points are building up nicely. Silver linings and all that.