During the lockdown a lot of businesses sought to use contactless payments. Was happy to go along with them. I usually would use cash for small purchases but noticed as time went on I was using a card for very small payments. In the Post Office it was $1.10 for a stamp a grand child's birthday card. Went to put on lotto and with a small win the amount came to 30c so paid same by card at request of shop assistant. One day cash will disappear.
I have read an article about infections from surfaces ,
The amount of virus that is potentially on an inanimate object is usually very small, Dr Christine Tait-Burkard, an expert on infection and immunity, told the Guardian in March. She continued: Coins are actually very bad environments for viruses to survive. Banknotes theoretically COULD carry the virus, but the risk of getting it from one is very small. Unless someone is using a bank note to sneeze in, was Tait-Burkards assessment.
For home I bought a Fuji Xerox C2255 with duplexer so I could print both sides. It was the cheapest printer which came with full cartridges. Cheaper in the long run.
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Today in Woollies we waited ages at the checkout because the system was down and the customer in front of us only had a card. No cash. All other checkouts were the same. We are cash customers and simply had to wait while staff ran around trying sort it all out. Society is becoming captive to technology. Imagine the day that the power goes out for more than 24 hours! No ATMs. No eftpos. No power to charge our dumb phones. Besides I like the smell of bank notes!!!!!!
Side note. My father was an on course bookie for many years. He came home on a Saturday night. Pulled out all the notes. Sorted them. Ironed them. Rolled them up and put them in his front pocket! So I have the smell of cash in my system.
Collo there are some poor bookies out there. But they are hard to find. FWIW the bookie gig set my father up for life. And FWIW again he was anti technology. A cash man. We had 60+ employees and still did all the pays by pencil n paper. Paid them all with cash. He went away for a week back in about 1990. Big mistake. While he was away I bought a computer and two calculators for the office. 8 office staff. Payroll was a walk in the park from that day on wards. Mind you we had to hide the calculators. The computer was accepted. Now the staff can't scratch their butts without technollogy telling them how to do it.
Another one last year in Pemberton WA. There was a blackout so nothing worked at the IGA. On the main road was a small supermarket who were taking cash, writing the goods & value on paper.
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Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!
50L custom fuel rack 6x20W 100/20mppt 4x26Ah gel 28L super insulated fridge TPMS 3 ARB compressors heatsink fan cooled 4L tank aftercooler Air/water OCD cleaning 4 stage car acoustic insulation.
Today in Woollies we waited ages at the checkout because the system was down and the customer in front of us only had a card. No cash. All other checkouts were the same. We are cash customers and simply had to wait while staff ran around trying sort it all out. Society is becoming captive to technology. Imagine the day that the power goes out for more than 24 hours! No ATMs. No eftpos. No power to charge our dumb phones. Besides I like the smell of bank notes!!!!!! Side note. My father was an on course bookie for many years. He came home on a Saturday night. Pulled out all the notes. Sorted them. Ironed them. Rolled them up and put them in his front pocket! So I have the smell of cash in my system.
I thought that I would smarten up a $50 note that I was giving as a present by ironing it.
Oops, bad move. Just a low heat & it frizzled up. Off to bank to try to get a refund from Treasury .. no luck there either.
