Cash is still king.

[heartastack]

Friday night 8 pm in Melbourne (pseudo-freedom day). Hairdresser on Malvern street had closed shop. I waved a $50 note and had the best cut of my life 20 minutes later, in private.

 

[alor]

$50 is cheap, without much waiting time and given you have not had a hair cut for months.
Last week I asked a stacker in KL how much is the PosLaju cost to SG, he said $50 Ringgits
I thought he was trying to pull my leg, not so after checking the exchange rates

 

[heartastack]

In a sales role haircuts are worth hundreds at least

 

[alor]

ask a lady how much was her hair cut?

 

[JohnnyBravo300]

Unless you're in Venezuela, they like the Bolivar wrapped gold flakes haha.

 

[sammysilver]

https://www.smh.com.au/money/planni...nt-with-one-simple-trick-20230428-p5d421.html


How many credit cards do you carry? I have two. You know, a spare in case the first one isn’t accepted. Then there are the two debit cards – one for a mortgage offset account – that round out my payment arsenal.

Though I clear the credit versions in full at the end of every month, my fiscally responsible self conducted an experiment this new year: would I spend less over a three-month period if I moved entirely to cash?

 

[bubblebobble2]

I waved a $50 note and had the best cut of my life 20 minutes later, in private.

cause they’ll open…it’s CASH-ON-HAND! She probably needs it for her drinks that night.

 

[Davros10]

Reports that $100b was withdrawn in the months leading up to First Republic's looming demise. I wonder how much was taken as cash due to mis-trust of the banks, and then multiplied by how many other banks have had large withdrawals?

 

[hardyakkagold]

Cash is only king if you use it to snort cocaine.

 

[pmbug]

Cash is only king if you use it to snort cocaine.
...

I don't have any personal experience with this, but I have to assume that it is possible to use a Goldback instead of cash for this purpose.

 

[pmbug]

And I dont even know what a goldback is.

Is it something that sissy stackers collect?

Some smart folks (in the USA) figured out a way to layer gold atoms into a flexible sheet to make gold bills that could be used for transacting gold in small denominations easily:

https://www.goldback.com/

 

[Ag bullet]

I want ounces not atoms.

 

[Ag bullet]

Then one day the number on it will be the same but there will be less atoms. Ye Olde debasement.

 

[leo25]

Optus nation wide outage, a lot of business will be down this morning. This outage is one of the worst ever, i wonder if it was a cyber attack.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/maj...ts-millions-of-customers-20231108-p5eics.html

Once again you need to always keep some cash in your wallet!

 

[sammysilver]

Let’s not forget cryptos in your digital wallet. Sorry, I’m with Optus.

 

[markcoinoz]

I woke up with OPTUS this morning.

 

[leo25]

Time to get starlink.

 

[Darwin]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/maj...ts-millions-of-customers-20231108-p5eics.html

This may be the first (and only) time I say these words, but thank who/whatever I'm with Vodafone

 

[Shaddam IV]

Complete dependency on digital transactions will be a catastrophe for any country that forces it on it's population. In the event of a war, a large solar flare, a Carrington event or a large scale state-level foreign hack and everything will collapse.

 

[hardyakkagold]

Complete dependency on digital transactions will be a catastrophe for any country that forces it on it's population. In the event of a war, a large solar flare, a Carrington event or a large scale state-level foreign hack and everything will collapse.

It is the same crowd pushing the cashless digital CBDC prison that was behind the Scamdemic COVID-19 and Vax fiasco.

Think about that next time you decide to use other form of convenient payment instead of cash for your purchases sheeple.