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Got my haircut this morning at the usual place - little barber's where they are all self employed and rent a chair. PPE and cleaning everything between customers was observed brilliantly, but no card payment facility, so I'd taken the exact money along to avoid having to handle change.
Just dawned on me that I've not paid cash for anything since the week before lockdown, and I guess this is pretty common now.
So when did you last pay cash and what for? Please use a false identity if it will protect the less innocent....
2 days ago to get some posts concreted in by a person who works in the "shadow economy"
Cash to buy eggs from a neighbour last week.
Chinese takeaway on Saturday night - Cash only..
Parking ticket for a woodland car park yesterday.
But yes.. not using cash much - which makes it all the harder when you need to find change.
J
My pimp
Yesterday - bought our daughter some riding kit from some teenage kids at a tabletop sale at her riding centre and a bargain it was too - over £100 of barely-worn jodhpurs and boots for £11.
I just paid my window cleaner. £11 cash
This morning in Waitrose. I still get paid in cash.
Had a new TV aerial fitted on Sat - paid cash for that.
fasthaggis. I'm imagining he passed it straight onto his pimp.
Eggs from a farm gate yesterday.
Veg in the Co-Op at lunch time. I sold a bike for cash a couple of weeks ago so have been spending that when I can instead of using my card. There was probably a couple of months where I didn't use cash or even have any in my wallet. Once I've spent the last few quids I have I'll be back to card.
This morning - for a haircut (finally!)
Carpet fitters a few weeks ago.
Major 'high street' carpet place, all very professional and all that, well apart from you have to pay the fitters separately. Sent us a very detailed e-mail about how the fitters would all follow official guidelines, wouldn't take cash etc.
4 of them turned up in the same van, smashed about the place to fit the carpets and then said something about "the machine" being broken and made me drive down to the ATM.
FuzzyWuzzy
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This morning – for a haircut (finally!)
So are you changing your username to Wuzzy?
Ice cream van, last week.
But otherwise, barely at all in the last 3 or 4 months. I've hardly bought anything except groceries anyway
Some pork-pies from the Co-op, only because I thought I would need change for a parking machine in Glossop which turned out to be free.
Personally I'd be happy to go cash free.
Every time I buy something....
The question for me would be "when was the last time you paid by card?" and I'm not sure I can remember... Probably a few weeks back when filling up the van.
Yay for the shadow economy... 😁 🤑
Couple of months ago - the local tyre garage only accepted cash for fitting tyres I already had, so had to draw the cash out to pass them. Same with the other 4 customers - we all had to go over the road to a cash machine.
I haven't even used cash in the local bakery. What notes I had, at the beginning of April went in a 'savings tin'. Other than above, not used cash since.
Odly enough £30 worth of petrol last week as local station was temporarily cash* only.
*only had cash on me because son had repaid me some birthday money for his sister that I'd had to give him.
Saturday, in the greengrocer.
I tried to pay by card but their device just said "waiting" for a few minutes then gave up. So I paid cash.
On Sunday my account was debited - it appears the card transaction had passed anyway. £4.82 down the drain (or into their account)
Not since the beginning of March, can't remember what it was but could well have been a bag of jelly babies.
I was given a load of cash for my birthday in April and have been hanging onto it, mostly because of avoiding banks, etc, and don't really want to use it to spend on general shopping because I'd rather use my card at the moment and it doesn't feel right using it for that as it was for a present.
Not checked the local wine merchants to see if they're open recently, I'm sure they'd take it off my hands for a couple of decent gins, and I doubt there'd be any change either. 🙂
Friday, bought some milk in a local shop, gave them the exact money, including 5p in coppers
Saturday in a café - I was going to pay by card but their machine broke down on the previous transaction. I usually take some cash with me on a ride "just in case" but this was one of the few times "in case" happened.
Even rarer - I can't remember the last time I wrote a cheque. Most tradesmen round here have BACS details on their cards so they get paid that way.
December 2018
A very nice man gave me £80 for a frame a couple of weeks ago, so I didn't actually pay cash but a transaction took place.
I've stopped carrying money besides an emergency tenner, and with Google Pay and storecards moving onto my phone most of the time I don't even take my wallet any more unless it's for a Big Shop or something. I can't honestly remember the last time I paid actual cash for something, maybe a bottle of milk from the corner shop or something. I have a box here that I used to chuck loose change into of an evening but I fed all that into the supermarket self-service tills a few months ago.
It's a bad time to be homeless and begging on the streets. Not that there's ever a good time I suppose, but y'know.
Rogate Bikepark before lockdown.
Before that, in the UK, I cant remember. Took some out before a walking trip to the Brecon Beacons incase some of the rural places were cash only. They weren't.
Pretty sure it would have been 2019.
about 20 minutes ago when simondbarnes was kind enough to drop some bits off 🙂
other than that, £2.50 a time for eggs from one of the local farms. Twice now I've changed a tenner for all the loose change rattling around the money box, so we have enough change. Need to do that again soon.
as for actual shops, one of the local chippies opened up again and only takes cash, only been once though and that was about 6 weeks ago
the local tyre garage only accepted cash for fitting tyres I already had
Sounds like somebody is being a bit creative with their accounting....
PPE and cleaning everything between customers was observed brilliantly
without wanting to suggest you don't know, but are you sure..? I happened to watch our local barbers at lunchtime (I wasn't staring at them, I was waiting and could see into the shop!) and I saw that...
1. Visors, but no gloves and no masks, and not asking punters to wear masks (one of the barbers was wearing his at a jaunty angle like a peak...)
2. Aerosol sprays and Hairdryers being used
3. No fallow times between customers
4. no COVID19 symptoms questionnaires or tracking/tracing info being collected from customers
5. The chairs were definitely less than 2 meters apart (I guess this may be different for each barbers though...)
I guess all barbers might be different, but I think I'll be sticking with a home trimmer for a while yet!
Oh, and used cash this weekend...
Recieved more cash than I've spent.
Got about 200 quid in repairing folks bikes over lock down to get them back on the road.
I only ask for parts cash. Anything else is up to them (I also only repair bikes for people I want to) .
I've spent 6 quid in cash on a kebab and tin of coke when j was at the office.
Kebab van every other Thursday is the only thing I get money out the ATM for. I might use the change to buy bread/milk from the shop but that's about it.
In fact, I suspect that most of my transactions aren't even by 'card' anymore. I always used to use "click and collect" options where possible as I loath shopping and it's just easier. This morning's errand felt particularly old-school as I rode down to the MG garage with a paper list of parts I needed and left it on the desk with a phone number!
Oh, yeah - I got paid in cash for some artwork, this very weekend 😀
without wanting to suggest you don’t know, but are you sure..? I
Only 3 seats to wait on inside, 2m apart. Only two barber's working, so 2m apart.
Barber's in gloves, masks, shields and plastic aprons. All customers in shop must wear facemasks and use hand sanitizer. Disposable plastic apron for each customer. Chair and equipment sprayed and wiped down after each customer. The chair you've waited in got sprayed before the next person in the queue outside was invited in to take it. Name and contact details taken for track and trace.
For a cheap barber's, in a sometimes rough town, I was pleasantly surprised. No problem that the price of a cut has gone from £5 to £7 to pay for it all.
Lunchtime today paid £400 to have a tree felled and the stump ground.
About a month ago at a layby food van in Stonehouse just off the A417, was on a Callout to a large factory after having just done a Callout in central London.
Was a cracking bacon and mushroom stick, some of the food they do looks heart attack tastic
Last week, fish n chips from the local that still hasn’t got a card machine. It’s a pain in the arse as I have to go to the nearest cash machine first and it’s two miles away.
This morning, milk, 90p.
Been mostly contactless over lockdown though.
With Apple Pay the only thing I even need a physical card for is pay at pump fuel. There is no excuse for any business not to take card payments. Even hobby craft stall holders can get a sum up for less than £20.
Honestly can't remember.
Saturday, bought an ice cream.
This afternoon bought a cake and bread from a Spar. They have a helpful sign requesting one doesn't lick their money.
I've been accruing a lot of cash as I have done a lot of shopping for folk over lockdown. I started putting it in my youngest daughters money box, and she now has over £700 and is very happy.
Today
Window cleaners last week
Friday evening:
Special fried rice
Curry sauce
Shredded beef in Peking sauce
Chips
Omnomnom
Saturday - local farm has a milk vending machine that takes coins.
Also paid cash reasonably regularly (in normal times, no reason to expect much different post-covid):
Local small butcher is still cash only.
As is the nearest chippy.
The nearest Chinese take-away moans about fees if you want to pay by card.
I've yet to find an industrial estate bacon roll van that takes card.
Greengrocer on Saturday.
Chinese takeaway this evening. Everywhere else has been contactless or normal card
About a week ago, for a kebab from the local purveyor of such comestibles. Everything else I use my phone, or my card for diesel. It’s just so easy to fish my phone out of my pocket and double-click the button and ‘ping’!
FaceID works so much better than than the TouchID on my old phone, I stopped using it and went back to using my card. Apart from fuel, I only use my phone now.
Well, except for a kebab...
Today - paid the carpet fitter in cash.
Parking meters - for chuff sake councils => RingGo <= even the railways have had this one nailed for years. Even the burger van at B&Q takes cards (nothing like a bacon and egg butty and hot chilli sauce after buying some dull DIY stuff) 🙂
Struggle to find any small change when we need it now.