I’ll elaborate. In a world where cash has become less and less common, it sort of feels like fake money when we come into possession of it. It doesn’t show up in our bank, so it’s just free, unaccounted-for currency.
We use these occasions to justify going out or buying fun stupid stuff. Problem is, we often forget to bring the cash with us to actually use it in the transaction. We just pay with card, then we get to use the cash again another day! Therefore, our cash stash is always referred to as the banana stand. There’s always money in the banana stand.
Does anyone else do this? We can’t be the only ones!
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Hmm, fascinating and alien to me. I don’t think of cash as free. Kind of the opposite, it feels the most real of all money.
I think you’re just bad at budgeting
I do take that attitude towards cash. The issue isn’t that I forget it, though, it’s that I feel too ashamed to use it. I hate cash.
You’re saying this like it’s common lol, cash does show up in your bank when you withdraw it, unless you’re getting paid under the table at which point you would definitely feel the impact of spending cash all the time, and that problem of forgetting cash and using the card is not common lol
frankly its the opposite for me, the numbers in my bank account feel like points in a game. cash feels like tangible things i want to keep and not wanna spend
I look at prices and think how many hours I had to work to afford it. Then usually don’t buy it because it’s not worth my hard labor.
I often feel like I’ve already ‘spent’ the cash when I withdraw it, so once it’s in my wallet, it’s essentially free. Spending it doesn’t actually affect my bank account at that point, so it feels like I can spend it without guilt.
Does this make sense? Absolutely not lol. But for whatever bizarre reason, it’s the way my brain works.
Needless to say, I try not to keep very much cash on hand haha.
Um, no. Not at all. Forgetting cash is common. Everything else…
I’ve done it on a couple of occasions, but it’s not cash, it’s gift cards. I’ve stockpiled several gift cards and I store them with my “emergency” cash. I decide to buy something with those gift cards and I invariably forget to grab them.
I had a 50 in my wallet for the last 4 months. I completely forgot about it until my wife needed cash to pay for something from facebook marketplace a couple weeks ago. It would still be there and I might never have spent it if this event never happened.
I don’t understand…..where is your cash that you’re forgetting it? My cash is in my wallet, which I bring with me.
I intentionally use cash when I can, because it feels more real. I physically take my paycheck to the bank to deposit it too for the same reason.
Im also mildly into numismatics, so I like to find interesting bills and coins.
I also like to tip in cash, in case the particular place lets the server or whatever pocket it without paying taxes. More money to the underpaid overworked barrista!
>it sort of feels like fake money when we come into possession of it
What am I reading 🤣🤣🤣
Yes absolutely! I went on a trip with a friend from Canada. I made all the arrangements. She asked if she could pay me her half in cash USD that she had already exchanged, it was just easier than figuring out the exchange rate through paypal. I said of course! Took the cash that she handed me in an envelope, came home, put it on my desk. I intend to put it in the ATM or deposit at the bank, but I don’t have transportation right now so either I have to take an Uber to the bank (spending probably 1/4 of the money just to get there and back) or wait until I find myself near an ATM. In the meantime I keep thinking, “oh this one bill is due but that won’t leave me with much in my account. Well that’s ok, I have this money here I’ll put in the bank soon.” Rinse and repeat a few times. This cash has been on my desk since mid February. 🙄
Yes !!! I love the banana stands
I rarely use cash now. Most spending is on credit card, so technically future money. The actual spending all feels the same to me though, regardless of the method.
I actually save in cash these days much easier than in bank accounts where it’s too easily accessible
No but I’ve taken and replaced the same few hundred dollars in my vacation fund like 3 times this year…There’s like $25 in it now. Everytime it gets to like $400 or $500 something happens. The washing machine, the dishwasher, the car, medical deductible etc.
For me, not spending cash isn’t even a conscious thing. This is an example of how cash works (and has always worked since I was a child) for me:
Mom: here’s $300, put it in your wallet
Me: okay *puts it in my wallet*
*some time later, maybe not even an hour*
Mom: Give me a 20 to pay for the food.
Me: With what? I have no money.
Mom: What about the 300 I just gave you
Me: You gave me money?
Growing up my family would do searches on me, because mom would send money for me to go on field trips and I’d come home with the same amount I left with. I told everyone I had no money. And I don’t do this to get over on people or anything, I suffer from memory loss issues. My family has taken to treating me as a personal savings account for their cash because they know almost as soon as they hand it over to me, I will put it away and completely forget it exists.
I do this with “extra” money i have coming. “Oh, extra paycheck this month. Most of that needs to go to bills, but hey. Let’s get pizza. Oh hey, that thing i wanted is on sale. I should grab it.” I’ll spend all the “extra” before I even get it.
My cash is real. The casino takes it from me once a month.
I have a secret vase in my home I put all my coins and cash in. Even if I’m given large bills I just pop them in the vase and forget about them. I plan on investing all that cash once I fill the jar but for now I use it as decor.
I kind of think of cash the same way but what I do have I usually keep in my wallet so I never forget it lol
I feel the opposite way.
Cash feels like the only real money and using a card doesn’t register with my brain that Im spending money
I don’t do this but I have like a million dollars in coins (Canada so we have $1 and $2 coins) from getting change any time I do spend cash.
Before everything became digital I used to be really good about using up my change before breaking a new bill.
Whenever I get cash less than $20 or so it tends to hang around my wallet for a while. I’ll usually end up putting it towards a grocery bill at checkout or something.
I carry cash only to buy marijuana.