I’ll have to deposit it before it accumulates to an amount that would be questioned. The only problem is, it would have to be a planned trip to the Post Office. My bank doesn’t have any branches Post Office queues are long to say the least. I had to do it once (not to deposit cash) and don’t feel tempted to do it again.
£25 in cash a week. My food spending habits would cause me to go over that and I still need to think about a food budget; or make food at home. Luckily, he doesn’t know about my expenditures.
I’m thinking of booking him a holiday. He deserves it. He would be surprised that I didn’t use the money up, but I don’t like relying on the bank of Parents.
You don’t need to deposit the cash. Use It and transfer the same amount in a separate account (or pot) as you spend it. Saves all the queuing in the post office.
Mostly describes how cash is recirculated via cash processing centres (the most interesting bit I think) but also includes some data on cash usage. For example it states that banknotes in circulation have increased from £70bn at end of 2019 to £81bn at end of 2023.
More surprisingly, it seems that people aged 18-24 visit ATMs even more frequently than the 35-54 age group, with budgeting cited as one of the main reasons.
I would need to first see their books to believe this.
I know one in my town that sells Asian and African food. Always busy, they never take card. They will show you where all the ATM points in the town center are. They can also give you on credit if known to them.
In the height of the pandemic they were forced to use card payments for a bit but then reverted back to cash.
They have the terminal you can see it but they always claim there is no network.
So given the cynicism expressed within this thread of late, is it the implication that one wouldn’t do business with non-card merchants as described herein?
It’s not that I wouldn’t shop with cash only businesses, I simply couldn’t as I rarely have any cash on me. If I knew ahead of time that cash would be required and I could get some, fine. R-
I never have any cash on me. One of the reasons I do not withdraw cash is I hate keeping the change in coins. And it has been long since I last made payment at this particular shop, my SO is the one who is still obsessed with cash so she always pays when there.
I only have a few £1 coins in the car for some supermarket trolleys and that’s it.
I one time went to a mall in the South East, the parking terminals were card only and via the app. I met an old couple very frustrated as they could not pay with cash and had no card on them. They were also not so into the idea of downloading the app just for parking.
I paid for their parking and waved goodbye to them.
Post Office queues are long to say the least. I had to do it once (not to deposit cash) and don’t feel tempted to do it again.
