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I hate change...

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... I'm not talking about the "now something's different" type of change but the coins that make my purse heavy, never seem to be the right amount to pay for what I need in the shop, so I have to pay by card or break up a note and get even more change, and I because I have OCD I have to wash my hands after handling them. 

  • I love change! I don't pay for anything with a picture of an imaginary card on my phone, or this apple wallet people bang on about. Physical card, physical money only. I do have a £2 coin that's stuck down the side of my drivers seat - tried everything to get it out. That's annoying. 

  • Success! Today I bought a couple of things in the pharmacy for £2.99 using cash, which left me with £1.94 in change. Then we got a few things in Aldi and the bill came to £6.87, so I used a £5 note plus got rid of most of the other coins! (Or "shrapnel" as Cat woman calls it)

  • I use cash quite a lot, I buy stuff for my mum, like a newspaper or something and she gives me cash at the end of the week, so it's rare that I have no cash at all.

    There are a few small shops that either only take cash, like one of the local chippies, or who prefer cash to cards for low value payments as the costs of running card machines can be very high for small businesses. Some places even online, will ony take credit cards and not debit cards. I'm quite happy using cash and in many ways prefer to cards.

  • in reply to pietro_21

    I just reread this is about change. I haven’t used cash for a decade now. Slight smile


  • I was searching information about the 4 subtypes of autism and I can across this table. For level one I think these things al ring true. Things that I’ve been subtly aware I’m doing but just people as being me. Transitioning making keepingfinding friends is all really difficult when one things end and there is no wing person to help out. This is what I have realised, these are things a lot of NTs take for granted to would ask anyway. Lots of people with autism are left kind of alienated and on the shelf. The worst of both worlds ; on a poor position and feeling rejected. 

  • Like many here, I've rarely had need to use cash for years. Thankfully, I now only have a few coins in my (physical) wallet, so it's fairly slim these days. Most things I buy online, and for occasional in-person purchases I'll use a debit card.

    On the flipside, I don't use the on-phone 'wallet' feature at all now. Partly it's because of the faff of registering cards, partly it's because I don't want to wave my phone around in public, and partly because it's one less party who have my payment details on file and might get that data hacked or leaked someday. (That last one seems to be occurring a lot these days.)

  • I know what you mean I either have a purse full of shrapnel or nothing. I do refill my parking and trolley coins fairly regularly from the shrapnel

  • in reply to Iain

    I mostly use cards, but I have a hairdresser who will only take cash and recently we sold some stuff in a CEX store and got cash. I don't mind notes so much, but I'm now trying to work out what I can buy in Aldi for £4.93.

  • I never seem to be able to keep hold of change.

    I have kids, and my youngest is very enterprising, she likes to do things like set up tattoo shops (she uses watercolour pencils) and does some artwork on your arm, but it costs 10p. I normally get a few and then have to cover my husband too. Or she held a winter olympics competition, where you had to pay to enter, which would go to the prize pot. Or she'll make little paper fans and set up a shop to sell them to you. All the change is in her various piggy banks. Anything bigger, like £1 coins, well there has been a lot of wobbly teeth between the two of them. 

    So no change here!

  • I can't honsetly remember the last time I paid for something in cash. 

    Where I live almost everything is paperless, even buskers have a payment option where you can send them an amount from your smart phone in a few seconds using a QR code that you scan from within your payment app (not a website QR code that can be malicious) - remarkably effective, quick and easy.

    It means you need to keep a closer eye on how much you spend however but you also have a full itemised spend history at your fingertips.

    Tech can be a good thing at times so long as you learn how to use it.

  • Same. I’ve got a huge load of quarters in my car and they never go away because I avoid using them at all costs lol