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Re:Cash Amnesia by CalRobert on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:33AM (#36848654)
How strange - if I use my card it stings, I know I'll see it later (and I tend to tally up monthly expenses from CC statements). Cash in my wallet feels almost like free money by comparison.
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Re:Cash Amnesia by rob74 on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:37AM (#36848752)
Looks like people are divided on this - I would say, when paying by card, it only stings once (if you even bother to go through the list regularly); when paying with cash, it stings twice: once when you have to fork out the actual money, and a second time when you realize you are out of cash (again) and have to get more from an ATM.
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Re:Cash Amnesia by CalRobert on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:59PM (#36851025)
It depends on the person I suppose. I use cash rarely (mostly for tradespeople who are evading taxes) and when I "run out of cash" I don't really think more of it than when I run out of toilet paper.
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