08-16-2020, 06:13 PM
(08-15-2020, 12:04 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: No more "cash on the barrelhead." My beloved just handed me some cash to carry in my wallet (I tend not to use ATMs). After a moment's thought, I realized there are darn few places I can spend it. Most self-checkouts don't take or give cash, and most stores where I shop won't return loose change around here. It's getting surreal.
Had to look up "cash on the barrelhead"'--never the saying before, but it's another one I can add to the lexicon, if I can remember it.
Not so funny story from the springtime, I think. It used to be the case that stores couldn't legally require a minimum for credit card purchases. At one of the local minigolf/ice cream places (not sure if those are universal to America but in the northeast/Atlantic coastal regions, they are common), there was a $5 minimum when I was trying to buy an ice cream for the son, after we played a round of golf (which I won, of course). That was overturned with Dodd-Frank in 2010...so I was 9/10 years in the dark about that. Most stores might not have the minimum, or I coincidentally always meet the minimum requirements so it's never an issue. I rarely use cash, even though I make sure to pay the credit card balance each month.