During the lockdown a lot of businesses sought to use contactless payments. Was happy to go along with them. I usually would use cash for small purchases but noticed as time went on I was using a card for very small payments. In the Post Office it was $1.10 for a stamp a grand child's birthday card. Went to put on lotto and with a small win the amount came to 30c so paid same by card at request of shop assistant. One day cash will disappear.
Glenn
Nevd said
05:34 PM May 25, 2020
Governments won't mind, because it makes the black economy and drug trade a lot harder.
Recoup said
06:06 PM May 25, 2020
No more Piggy bank !
Whenarewethere said
06:51 PM May 25, 2020
I have put a scalpel blade through my card so I have to use a pin number!
Last year, twice we paid cash for fuel in the outback as the network was down & another place to buy lunch! We resorted to Mesopotamia technology!
Will probably find that minimum purchase amounts will return after COVID-19
Collo said
10:09 AM May 26, 2020
Haven't used cash or cheques for years. Although l keep four twenty dollar notes in my wallet for the odd occasion where cash is necessary.
When we go away in the van l do have a sum hidden away just in case!
graeme c said
11:46 AM May 26, 2020
What will happen at donation camps?
Possum3 said
12:24 PM May 26, 2020
graeme c wrote:
What will happen at donation camps?
Put in coins and let the Council sanitise them when they collect. Even our plastic notes are able to be sprayed with Glen 20 or similar.
Santa said
01:41 PM May 26, 2020
I very much doubt any members of this forum will live to see a truly cashless society.
Recoup said
02:22 PM May 26, 2020
I have read an article about infections from surfaces ,
The amount of virus that is potentially on an inanimate object is usually very small, Dr Christine Tait-Burkard, an expert on infection and immunity, told the Guardian in March. She continued: Coins are actually very bad environments for viruses to survive. Banknotes theoretically COULD carry the virus, but the risk of getting it from one is very small. Unless someone is using a bank note to sneeze in, was Tait-Burkards assessment.
DeBe said
04:13 PM May 26, 2020
You will be surprised how often in the country areas the internet is down, & you have to use cash.
Cupie said
07:30 PM May 26, 2020
Santa wrote:
I very much doubt any members of this forum will live to see a truly cashless society.
Remember 'The Paperless Office'. What a joke. With printers spewing out reams of living colour.
Whenarewethere said
08:37 PM May 26, 2020
For home I bought a Fuji Xerox C2255 with duplexer so I could print both sides. It was the cheapest printer which came with full cartridges. Cheaper in the long run.
bgt said
01:03 PM May 27, 2020
Today in Woollies we waited ages at the checkout because the system was down and the customer in front of us only had a card. No cash. All other checkouts were the same. We are cash customers and simply had to wait while staff ran around trying sort it all out. Society is becoming captive to technology. Imagine the day that the power goes out for more than 24 hours! No ATMs. No eftpos. No power to charge our dumb phones. Besides I like the smell of bank notes!!!!!!
Side note. My father was an on course bookie for many years. He came home on a Saturday night. Pulled out all the notes. Sorted them. Ironed them. Rolled them up and put them in his front pocket! So I have the smell of cash in my system.
Collo said
01:44 PM May 27, 2020
A teacher in my primary school days said, "Bookies have cars....punters have bikes!"
bgt said
02:36 PM May 27, 2020
Collo there are some poor bookies out there. But they are hard to find. FWIW the bookie gig set my father up for life. And FWIW again he was anti technology. A cash man. We had 60+ employees and still did all the pays by pencil n paper. Paid them all with cash. He went away for a week back in about 1990. Big mistake. While he was away I bought a computer and two calculators for the office. 8 office staff. Payroll was a walk in the park from that day on wards. Mind you we had to hide the calculators. The computer was accepted. Now the staff can't scratch their butts without technollogy telling them how to do it.
Whenarewethere said
02:43 PM May 27, 2020
bgt wrote:
Besides I like the smell of bank notes!!!!!!
Especially the green ones!
Another one last year in Pemberton WA. There was a blackout so nothing worked at the IGA. On the main road was a small supermarket who were taking cash, writing the goods & value on paper.
Cupie said
04:36 PM May 27, 2020
bgt wrote:
Today in Woollies we waited ages at the checkout because the system was down and the customer in front of us only had a card. No cash. All other checkouts were the same. We are cash customers and simply had to wait while staff ran around trying sort it all out. Society is becoming captive to technology. Imagine the day that the power goes out for more than 24 hours! No ATMs. No eftpos. No power to charge our dumb phones. Besides I like the smell of bank notes!!!!!! Side note. My father was an on course bookie for many years. He came home on a Saturday night. Pulled out all the notes. Sorted them. Ironed them. Rolled them up and put them in his front pocket! So I have the smell of cash in my system.
I thought that I would smarten up a $50 note that I was giving as a present by ironing it.
Oops, bad move. Just a low heat & it frizzled up. Off to bank to try to get a refund from Treasury .. no luck there either.
Whenarewethere said
05:13 PM May 27, 2020
I give cheques to nieces and nephews so they can't blow it instantly.
bgt said
05:42 PM May 27, 2020
My father ironed the notes back in the 50's when they were £ and made of real paper!!
During the lockdown a lot of businesses sought to use contactless payments. Was happy to go along with them. I usually would use cash for small purchases but noticed as time went on I was using a card for very small payments. In the Post Office it was $1.10 for a stamp a grand child's birthday card. Went to put on lotto and with a small win the amount came to 30c so paid same by card at request of shop assistant. One day cash will disappear.
Glenn
I have put a scalpel blade through my card so I have to use a pin number!
Last year, twice we paid cash for fuel in the outback as the network was down & another place to buy lunch! We resorted to Mesopotamia technology!
The mattress will go down.
Will probably find that minimum purchase amounts will return after COVID-19
Haven't used cash or cheques for years. Although l keep four twenty dollar notes in my wallet for the odd occasion where cash is necessary.
When we go away in the van l do have a sum hidden away just in case!
What will happen at donation camps?
Put in coins and let the Council sanitise them when they collect. Even our plastic notes are able to be sprayed with Glen 20 or similar.
I very much doubt any members of this forum will live to see a truly cashless society.
The amount of virus that is potentially on an inanimate object is usually very small, Dr Christine Tait-Burkard, an expert on infection and immunity, told the Guardian in March. She continued: Coins are actually very bad environments for viruses to survive. Banknotes theoretically COULD carry the virus, but the risk of getting it from one is very small. Unless someone is using a bank note to sneeze in, was Tait-Burkards assessment.
Remember 'The Paperless Office'. What a joke. With printers spewing out reams of living colour.
For home I bought a Fuji Xerox C2255 with duplexer so I could print both sides. It was the cheapest printer which came with full cartridges. Cheaper in the long run.
A teacher in my primary school days said, "Bookies have cars....punters have bikes!"
Especially the green ones!
Another one last year in Pemberton WA. There was a blackout so nothing worked at the IGA. On the main road was a small supermarket who were taking cash, writing the goods & value on paper.
I thought that I would smarten up a $50 note that I was giving as a present by ironing it.
Oops, bad move. Just a low heat & it frizzled up. Off to bank to try to get a refund from Treasury .. no luck there either.
I give cheques to nieces and nephews so they can't blow it instantly.