Can you go 100-days without cash in your pocket?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Expanding on and taking the challenge:

I'm looking forward to the next post in this series - Can you go 100-days without exercise?

Well we already know a lot of people here can go 100 days without sex so we're running out of topic options

OK, let's say no more than $20 or the equivalent in your country?

I rarely have more than that unless I know I'll be going to one of the few merchants that don't accept plastic without an extra fee. 100 days with less than $20 is pretty common.

 

[Kaido]

I keep a spare $20 in my pocket for emergencies, but mostly I just use Apple Wallet...groceries, gas station, fast food, even the local farm stands now have a Square or equivalent device to bop your phone on. Very rare for me to have to use cash for anything these days.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I have not had currency on my person since 2007.

 

[Pohemi]

Pbfffft. This is weaksauce/lame. Plenty of people never use cash these days, especially with the pandemic this last year.

If you want a challenge, go 100 days without spending or buying anything.
Sound easy? Hope you have a large pantry to stock up on food for 4 months.

 

[lxskllr]

I only use cash. Same with everything else, it's possible, but I'm gonna need some incentive to change my lifestyle. I could also go without spending money, but I need fuel for the truck. Company would have to fill it for me. Doable, but a needless PITA.

 

[bejellio]

I do mostly digital currency. Challenge accomplished =).

 

[dank69]

The only thing I use cash for is paying the drink cart while golfing, and that's only because they don't have a mobile card scanner. The day they get one will be the day I probably never need to use cash again. Good riddance.

 

[Pohemi]

I could go 4 months without using cash, but I'd be stocking up on cannabis beforehand. My dealer doesn't accept plastic.

 

[LikeLinus]

I've probably completed this challenge many times over. I use cards for everything. I only ever get cash when a place doesn't accept cards or I will always take cash with me when traveling.

 

[Svnla]

Challenge accept and completed years ago. I am paying very much everything with my reward credit cards to earn cash back. I only pay in cash for places that do not take credit card such as my barber, the vending machines (not sure why my credit cards almost never work there).

 

[WelshBloke]

I haven't used cash in ages! Easily over a year now.
Under £40 I use my phone, over that a card.

 

[nakedfrog]

MJ dispensaries here only take cash. Does it count if I just use the in-store ATM and don't actually put the cash in my pocket?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh, i keep cash at home for tipping delivery people. Especially over the last year as we have become hermits.

 

[Pohemi]

MJ dispensaries here only take cash. Does it count if I just use the in-store ATM and don't actually put the cash in my pocket?

In the US, I assume? Yeah, because still federally illegal, even businesses in legal states have to figure out alternate methods of banking and can't use Visa, etc. I think there's been legislation to change the federal laws for banking so that the businesses can utilize normal services, but it obviously hasn't become law yet.

Ehh, i keep cash at home for tipping delivery people. Especially over the last year as we have become hermits.

Most if not all of my food deliveries have been 'contactless' and I pay with a card online or on the phone so the tip is baked in. I know delivery people prefer cash tips, but whatever.

 

[DigDog]

i wanna say i never use cash, but there is this damn shop near me that only lets you use cards on £5 and above, and they got good stuff so i do occasionally carry actual cash. However i've been practically cash-free for years. Don't even need it at the pub.

 

[biostud]

I only use cash if I get some as a present, and then a coin for the trolley at the grocery.

 

[KeithP]

Can you go 100-days without cash in your pocket?

Easy…been doing that for many, many years. I keep cash in my wallet.

Now, if you were to ask "Can you go 100-days without taking things literally?" I would have a problem.

-KeithP

 

[Spacehead]

I only use cash. Same with everything else, it's possible, but I'm gonna need some incentive to change my lifestyle.

+1

 

[highland145]

Went to the grocery store last night, every line was full....except the cash only one. Win for me. I use the credit card most of the time but I always carry some cash.

 

[IronWing]

Always carry cash.

 

[highland145]

Always carry cash.

The boss went to pick up pizza at a local joint on Thursday, "Our card machine is down. Do you have cash?" She managed to scrape to together but just barely.

 

[sandorski]

Have Cash in wallet, but it has been years since using Cash for a purchase.

 

[Muadib]

Have Cash in wallet, but it has been years since using Cash for a purchase.

I have a $20 in my wallet. I use credit cards only since Covid, which takes me well past 100 days.

 

[ultimatebob]

Considering that I barely leave my friggin house more than once a week nowadays, I figure that I could probably pull that off. Even when I was still going out for work, I was paying for everything with my credit card for the cashback bonus.

I had an emergency $20 bill in my wallet for months until I needed to use it at a restaurant with a broken credit card machine.