When was the last time you used cash?
Do you have to think about this?
Do you keep cash on your person?
And when did we stop keeping cash?
I'm asking because I somehow ended up with nearly $50 worth of coin in my wallet. Yes, it's legal tender, and yes, it does fit in my oversized wallet, but it weighs a tonne. Along with this, at last count, there was over $100 in notes in there as well. Also, there is a cheque that needs to be banked.
Yes. A FREAKING CHEQUE.
How did I come across nearly $50 of coins? Well, that would be a mason's thing. We take up a collection for charity at the end of each meeting. As the treasurer of my lodge, I need to take this collection and bank it.
As a human being of the modern world, I count up the funds, send the collection amount from my own bank account to the lodge account and then pocket the cash (and yes, I always have a second see me do this - honest like that)
Still, I end up with a wallet full of coin?
Then how do you get rid of it?
Some places don't take cash.
Often, I don't take my wallet with me - using the card function on my phone or watch instead, so the coins sit around doing nothing.
On the way home from the gym I went to the supermarket, getting rid of around $20 of the weighty buggers in the self-checkout (after waiting a few minutes to get a check out that took cash).
I remember when I was in England saving the 'old' fifty pence pieces to feed the meter to have a shower in this boarding house I was living in for a few weeks. Smaller 'new' coins didn't fit the meter. It was the 90's - what could you do?
I remember having correct change to buy and Evening Standard on the way home.
All the little rituals around coins.
Now, they're just an inconvenience.
Though not nearly as inconvenient as that bloody cheque, which has been sitting there waiting to get to a Bendigo Bank branch for over a month...
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