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CrispyQ

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10. Those of us who dated before credit cards & cell phones always carried enough cash to call a cab & get home. I still do.

Reply to DFW (Reply #9)

Sun Mar 16, 2025, 01:15 PM

Mar 2025

In a lot of sci-fi stories cash is illegal in cashless societies. And wasn't there a story about 12 years ago or so, of a township that decided to have their own "currency" that they called Barter Bucks & the govt stepped in & said Pretty sure that happened in the US.

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Back to cash: life without money in your pocket is not the utopia Sweden hoped [View all] cbabe Mar 2025 OP

No. This is a recommendation that people have a 'back-up' stopdiggin Mar 2025 #1

My bank suggested I cut down on plastic. defacto7 Mar 2025 #3

Hear, hear. defacto7 Mar 2025 #2

That seems a reasonable strategy to maximize position and safety stopdiggin Mar 2025 #5

Okay. defacto7 Mar 2025 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author stopdiggin Mar 2025 #4

I have a piggy bank collection. 🐷🐷🐷 CrispyQ Mar 2025 #6

I like rolling pennies. Soon to be a collector's item. cbabe Mar 2025 #8

We haven't been in Sweden for over ten years DFW Mar 2025 #9

Those of us who dated before credit cards & cell phones always carried enough cash to call a cab & get home. I still do. CrispyQ Mar 2025 #10