Who still uses cash?

[markjay]

[Non-political]

Is there a better way of ensuring a tax-free inheritance, than leaving behind a suitcase full of crispy twenty pound notes.....?

 

[ChipChop]

[Non-political]

Is there a better way of ensuring a tax-free inheritance, than leaving behind a suitcase full of crispy twenty pound notes.....?

Yes a stash of royal mint gold sovereigns. Legal tender so exempt from CGT.

 

[NJSS]

Royal Mint Sovereigns are, as suggested, legal tender and thus exempt from CGT, unlike Krugerrands. A point missed by many investors.

 

[chic0821]

Haven’t been able to read what’s going on but i can probably tell its got something to do with that person who always keeps writing a big speech that nobody is interested in but never takes any advice mind you that doesn’t surprise me some people never change

I could not figure out what was going on there, but got lost with the big words
Guess he wasn't happy

 

[Rayny]

I just find it impossible to refuse payment in cash

Especially from a lady with a charming smile

Is that receiving payment from the lady - You old gigolo

 

[SpikyMikey]

Is that receiving payment from the lady - You old gigolo

I knew MikeFromWimbers reminded me of someone...

 

[TC350]

Something I have noticed lately is that the longer the post the lower the fact count and higher the gormless opinion.

That’s no way to talk about our wonderful @Mactech

Just because you’re the big dog and far too important to waste your precious time and effort reading any more than one-liners, many of us peasants enjoy the completeness of longer posts.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

I knew MikeFromWimbers reminded me of someone...

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Maybe just a gigolo, but

There will come a day
An youth will pass away
What will they say
About me?

When the end comes I know
They'll say just a gigolo
Life goes on
Without me

I have to raise the cash to finance @Mike’s new half tech car somehow.

But that’s for another thread….

 

[Petrol Pete]

Agreed, and this is also why the plan to abolish the use of cheques was shelved. But in time, the generation of people who use cash will pass away... young people not only do not carry or use cash, but in fact, they often don't even carry bank cards - only mobile phone apps (or a smart watch linked to the phone). I am ridiculed by the younger members of my family for carrying plastic cards

Young people also don't bother with landlines, or desktop PCs, or terrestial TV, etc.

Things are changing.

How timely !

Just a few days ago the young son of a friend of mine walked into our local and he couldnt buy himself a pint because his phone was dead , not usually an issue as there is often someone around with the means to plug another's phone in for a few minutes but on this day ? No charger or cable available .

After taking the pi$$ out of him for a while I bought him a pint.

As I said not being able to charge is a rare occurrence (especially in this particular pub) , , but it shows you can be left high and dry (pun intended) if tech lets you down and you don't have a bit of cash on you.

 

[SpikyMikey]

How timely !

Just a few days ago the young son of a friend of mine walked into our local and he couldnt buy himself a pint because his phone was dead , not usually an issue as there is often someone around with the means to plug another's phone in for a few minutes but on this day ? No charger or cable available .

After taking the pi$$ out of him for a while I bought him a pint.

As I said not being able to charge is a rare occurrence (especially in this particular pub) , , but it shows you can be left high and dry (pun intended) if tech lets you down and you don't have a bit of cash on you.

I always carry cash in my wallet; that said, I can't remember the last time I actually needed to use it.
( are 10 shilling notes and white fivers still legal tender? )

 

[ALFAitalia]

How timely !

Just a few days ago the young son of a friend of mine walked into our local and he couldnt buy himself a pint because his phone was dead , not usually an issue as there is often someone around with the means to plug another's phone in for a few minutes but on this day ? No charger or cable available .

After taking the pi$$ out of him for a while I bought him a pint.

As I said not being able to charge is a rare occurrence (especially in this particular pub) , , but it shows you can be left high and dry (pun intended) if tech lets you down and you don't have a bit of cash on you.

....or his card in his wallet. Most people I know who pay with phone/watch or whatever still carry their cards.....they just don't need to get them out much. You still need them for ATMs of course.

 

[Bellow]

How timely !

Just a few days ago the young son of a friend of mine walked into our local and he couldnt buy himself a pint because his phone was dead , not usually an issue as there is often someone around with the means to plug another's phone in for a few minutes but on this day ? No charger or cable available .

After taking the pi$$ out of him for a while I bought him a pint.

As I said not being able to charge is a rare occurrence (especially in this particular pub) , , but it shows you can be left high and dry (pun intended) if tech lets you down and you don't have a bit of cash on you.

Timely indeed. Talking to a mate yesterday and he told me how he caught and paid for a bus fare with 4% of battery charge remaining on his phone - and no cash payment option. Which was the point at which I realised I can never use a bus here. I don't have smart phone (why would I when the there's insufficient reception at home to support it and I work from home?) and the buses don't take cash. And there's those who think I should be moving toward public transport. And another cohort who'd like the elderly to do the same. Elderly, like the woman I saw paying with cash in the supermarket yesterday.

 

[markjay]

I knew MikeFromWimbers reminded me of someone...

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Is this a young David Niven?

 

[SpikyMikey]

Is this a young David Niven?

It's the "13th Duke of Wybourne", AKA Paul Whitehouse from the Fast Show.
But I'm sure MikeFromWimbers looks a lot like a young David Niven

 

[ALFAitalia]

Timely indeed. Talking to a mate yesterday and he told me how he caught and paid for a bus fare with 4% of battery charge remaining on his phone - and no cash payment option. Which was the point at which I realised I can never use a bus here. I don't have smart phone (why would I when the there's insufficient reception at home to support it and I work from home?) and the buses don't take cash. And there's those who think I should be moving toward public transport. And another cohort who'd like the elderly to do the same. Elderly, like the woman I saw paying with cash in the supermarket yesterday.

Our buses still take cash around here......but most just tap their card on the pad as they enter....job done......says the man who uses a "loser cruiser" just once a year to get to the works Xmas party!....and usually hate every minute of it!!