Sweden is atypical in that regard, most places are not nearly so cash-hostile.
I never stopped carrying and using cash. I'm even a bit perplexed that carrying cash is seen as a a hassle... it goes into my wallet, which I carry around anyway for my ID,etc. It's just a bit of paper, it takes up virtually no space and weighs virtually nothing.
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by IggleSniggle on Sunday September 15, 2019 @03:23PM
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My ideal wallet would be no wallet. Cash makes my wallet too thick. I keep some non-daily cards in there (like debit card, Rx card) because I’m too forgetful to manage continually adding and removing cards. There are phone based solutions but I don’t want to be reliant on a charged battery for absolute essentials. Cash is funny because I am super hesitant to break a large bill, and then very eager to get rid of the smaller ones, and where I live, it’s generally a good idea to carry one larger bill as a fallback.
That’s exactly how I do it. Small plastic sleeve as a wallet for grouping cards together and a single larger bill as a fallback.
In some cities here in the U.S., it's common practice to keep cash on-hand so that in the event of a robbery, you can avoid giving your phone/other valuables or having to say "I don't have anything" and getting shaken down further or shot
Is this gokd or bad, I mean what is your stand? In Austria pocket money is ubiquitous and everywhere acdepted.
I would detaste living in a digicash only world
I like it. My wallet today is a plastic sleeve for a few cards, visa, ID etc. weighs like 25g in total.
It also fits a single folded high value banknote. Never to be used but is there in case of emergency.
Today you take your extra cash and coins and throw it away because nobody accepts it anymore. Digital payments only. That’s how it works in Sweden.