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Do you pay with cash or card? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Does your choice depends on somehing? And from what country are you?

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[–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I almost never have cash on me. It's debit or credit always. Here's my thought process on paying with cash. If I buy something that costs, say $4.55, and I hand over a $5 dollar bill, that item has really just cost me $5.00 because what am I realistically going to do with the 45 cents in change?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I put my change in a jar when I empty my pockets. About once a year I'll take it by the bank and treat myself with the couple hundred dollars it cashes out to.

    Are you just throwing yours away?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I've got a jar too, but it definitely doesn't fill up at anywhere near the rate yours does. My pay is direct deposited and every place I shop will take a card. I could either go to the ATM to get cash, use it to pay for things when I don't have to, collect these small amounts of change, and take it all back to the bank eventually, or I could just not bother with any of these things.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    I've had like ~70 cents sitting on the shelf for over a year... like, what an I going to do with it? It's just a pointless pile of coins. half the time those coins are in the wrong combination to pay for whatever other change in my next cash transaction, so I just end up with more coins... which I have to remember to grab when I'm specifically going to a cash-only place...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    All of the sub-$1 coins that I have ever received as change in my lifetime would not add up to $100. But I also don't use (or even carry) cash unless I absolutely must.

    Edit to add: I have a jar too. It's a standard mason jar. I started filling this one after my last move. In 2013.

    I have yet to fill it completely.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Back in the day you take that .45 cents and throw it in a big old empty pickle jar with the rest of your loose change.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    the problem now is that I'll just have a big pickle jar with 45 cents. Next year, I'll have a pickle jar with 60 cents... maybe by the time I retire I'll have a whole five dollars of change and exchange it for a bill...

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