Going cashless

epah said:
Why are kids even being allowed to pay for stuff themselves. They should just put everything on the parents account/statement.
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This is basically what happens when a 6 year old is paying for something using a tag instead of cash :ROFL:
 
nulkoel said:
This is basically what happens when a 6 year old is paying for something using a tag instead of cash :ROFL:
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Very true.

When I grew up in the 60s I learnt very quickly that the handful of coins I received every week as an allowance was apt to disappear as quickly as I bought things, after which there was no more.

That is the danger with turning money into a number on a screen. It is difficult to assign a real value to it.
 
3WA said:
My barber only takes cash so I only get a haircut when I happen upon some notes.

Normally I get cash by lending money to a cleaner at work (by EFT), and then she pays me back cash. She’s running a small pyramid scheme of sorts, every month she borrows from one of us to pay back the other.
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Ha this is actually quite funny because it’s one of the reasons I stopped using the barber I use to because they were the last required cash annoyance.
 
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Blue Shirt said:
Very true.

When I grew up in the 60s I learnt very quickly that the handful of coins I received every week as an allowance was apt to disappear as quickly as I bought things, after which there was no more.

That is the danger with turning money into a number on a screen. It is difficult to assign a real value to it.
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The problem isn’t the method, but rather the fact the kids can’t see the number of the screen and therefore can’t see it disappear.
 
Username: said:
I wish I could go cashless but unfortunately as long as I'm addicted to hookers and blow I'll always need a wack if cash .
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Don't they have yokos or ikhoka's or whatever tf you call it?
 
Blue Shirt said:
Very true.

When I grew up in the 60s I learnt very quickly that the handful of coins I received every week as an allowance was apt to disappear as quickly as I bought things, after which there was no more.

That is the danger with turning money into a number on a screen. It is difficult to assign a real value to it.
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I didn’t grow up in the 60s but did grow up in the cash age too. Our perspective shouldn’t discount a child’s ability to learn the value of money just because it’s cashless. The value of the number on the screen is what you can buy with it.
So while counting out your piggy bank stash to get that number was our norm it’s our kid’s norm to look at their banking app. Different method but same same.
 
I just had a brilliant idea.

Create a budget with different categories then create virtual cards for each one these categories with their monthly limit being the amount you budgeted for that category.

I wonder if this is even possible. :unsure:
 
purple face said:
Have you ever seen this before?

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I draw R100 once a month for my car wash, everything else is done via Apple Pay.
 
Also still a while away from going cashless.
Kid's school still has a bunch of cash-required activities - civvies days, random fund-raising events, adhoc sporting tournaments, chapel services. Barber doesn't have a card machine. Petrol attendants, car wash guy tips.
Reckon R1 000 a month keeps me going.
 
I rarely use cash. Like OP said, if it wasn't for my SO, car guards and the like would go unpaid. And he only has cash because work pays back claims from the petty cash.

If businesses don't accept cashless options, we cannot support them and that's their own fault. Even the local corner shops here are cashless.
 
The only time we truly use/need cash is traveling from time to time. Some of the smaller stores in Serbia last year refused to take anything but cash was a pain to draw out cash but you do what you need to do :)
 
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