Funny, as always!
I like to think I'm pretty good with money. I have two guiding principles - don't trust anyone else to make decisions about it, and do not borrow it. That said, I'm getting pretty low on fiat! Hopefully, I won't be needing it much longer.
Curiously, my quality that made me reviled in my last home has made me lovable here - my big mouth about the covid con and my notions of what our government is up to now.
I handed a friend $20 bill recently to pay him back for something, and he actually said he hadn't held any cash in a very long time. He has since sold me a sculpture of his. I'm thinking of sending him a gold piece as payment.
I'm getting a bit low on Fiat myself but somehow the universe always provides:)
I was in Dublin at the weekend and went into a coffee shop to be told they don't take cash! I never thought I'd see the day! I don't even carry a card with me so I had to go elsewhere.
A lot of places do that here. Large sports arenas are 100% cash free. Small coffee shops often don't take cash. I raise a small stink in those, showing them the words "legal tender" on the bills and explaining that means they cannot, by law, refuse to take them. It never gets me anywhere though, and I have to leave. There's the big mouth of mine that is appreciated by red necks and hillbillies, not so much by lefties.
This was a little independent cafe but staffed by furriners so I didn't bother saying anything.
You think local folk would have listened?
No, but they at least wouldn't look at me as if I was speaking a foreign language!:)
Hold up I just went to verify what I just said.
As I read this, as soon as they hand you the product, they have to accept your cash.
Seems so, but here as I understand it, they're not obliged to accept cash at all. There's legislation before parliament at the moment to introduce a right to pay with cash for certain goods and services.