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I haven't used my card in an ATM machine for 6 months
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Everywhere still takes cash here. They have to, loads of people don't have cards (or have been given one by the bank but have never used it).
Back in the UK I know my mum still uses cash, because her neighbours include in their supermarket delivery orders and she has to pay them, clearly. Not sure how that could be handled cashlessly.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostEverywhere still takes cash here. They have to, loads of people don't have cards (or have been given one by the bank but have never used it).
Back in the UK I know my mum still uses cash, because her neighbours include in their supermarket delivery orders and she has to pay them, clearly. Not sure how that could be handled cashlessly.
I went through a drive-thru with my daughter a few months ago and between placing the order and getting to the window I realised I couldn't find my wallet, so managed to send her some money via mobile, then take her phone and use it as a debit card (mine not being enabled to do that), without causing a horn-beeping tailback behind us.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View Postwithdrew a tenner before Christmas to give my cleaner a small bonus
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Originally posted by Fussbudget View PostErm, via bank transfer? Takes two minutes.
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Originally posted by Janik View Post* - you only need to confirm you items 24 hours prior to the delivery, but need to reserve the slots more forward than that.
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Originally posted by TonTon View Post
When I had a cleaner, I gave her a krismas box in cash, yeah. That was a few years back. And a bit more than a tenner. But yeah, cash for that. Not sure what you'd do otherwise in that situation.
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Originally posted by sw2borshch View PostMy major source of cash over the last 9-10 months has been from our mam & dad in restitution for the stuff I have bought off the internet for them. I would be happy if one time they paid me back in pound coins to give me some tipping change.
EFTPOS was a technical term that emerged in the '80s in electronic trade mags to describe the then futuristic concept of dosh being moved from your bank account to a retailer without the need for any type of intermediary. I'm surprised to hear that it's still in common parlance.
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As for shopping, only I go and I try to go only once a week and late enough that there's no queue. Even with covid I refuse to go anywhere I have to queue to get into.
So it's Waitrose at 8:15pm usually. And I self-scan so I don't have to interact with anyone.
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I don't think I've ever known a British person talk about the "ATM", but it is a recognised international standard name for these things so I think it's perfectly fair enough to use it for this thread's title – though, as I joked about on the first page and Ray reiterates above, without the tautology.
I'd probably say "cashpoint" as a matter of course, as would most people I know, I think, though some might say "cash machine" – my dad probably would, as he's one for appending 'machine' to anything vaguely newfangled: e.g. he would talk about my "Wii machine" in a way I've never heard anyone else refer to a games console.
My parents used to talk about going to the "hole in the wall" quite a decent percentage of the time when I was growing up, but that one appears to have dropped out of common parlance. I think it was the Barclays trademarked name for their ATMs, as Cashpoint was for Lloyds', but it's the latter that ended up as the widely genericised word in the manner of 'hoover'.
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Rumbled! I hope you're not insisting on claiming in cash Fussbudget...
EFTPOS meanwhile is a term I hadn't thought about for a while – it was all over the place when I lived in New Zealand, but I've never come across it before or since.
I rather like this Antipodean "paywave" name, I have to say: it is indeed a bit more indicative than the admittedly vague "contactless".
I was a slow adopter of the latter (the action, not the name I mean) prior to last year, having experimented with it precisely once when in London for the 2017 World Athletics Championships then decided in an oddly fuddy-duddy fashion that I preferred to keep on with cash or chip-and-pin for the next couple of years before finally coming around to it. I think I found the act of just airily waving away one's money so easily a bit unnerving, frankly.
I'm glad I did get on board, though, as handling cash that's been through goodness knows how many other pairs of hands (and pockets, and under beds, and wherever) is – at the best of times – one of the dirtiest things we habitually do when you think about it, and this last 10 months it's been a real no-no so I've avoided it wherever possible. I've got a small stash at home where other people have given me it for various services rendered, but I've literally and figuratively tried not to touch it.Last edited by Various Artist; 12-01-2021, 13:18.
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