What's in your wallet?
- Thread starter Gryffindorian
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No money.... 
A bank card
Medicare card
Library card (that I haven't used in a few years)
Myki card (Melbourne public transport)
Supermarket giftcard
Healthcare card
A few notes.
Been thinking about buying a new wallet for a while, but just yet to find one.
Medicare card
Library card (that I haven't used in a few years)
Myki card (Melbourne public transport)
Supermarket giftcard
Healthcare card
A few notes.
Been thinking about buying a new wallet for a while, but just yet to find one.
Ever since the start of the pandemic not using money has become a very convenient thing indeed.
^ Oh, I think that ship sailed well before the pandemic.
Maybe but I've been doing it much more since then. Money is one of the dirtiest things you can handle in daily life, especially coins.
I wish more business had the guts to simply refuse to accept cash.
They could but I'd wager they'd lose a lot of their regular customer base.
People will come around - when they have no choice.
Tell me about it. Part of my work day used to consist of swapping out old currency with new in ATMs and cash machines and was the worst part of the job. It always left a funny smell on my hands and sanitizer didn't cut it. Only after the rare opportunity of being able to use soap & water did I feel safe to touch my face or eat something and when I did the water in the sink would literally run black down the drain. This was pre-covid, when all one had to worry about was regular bacteria, fecal matter and cocaine residue to deal with; so I can't imagine being a cashier or someone who has to handle money today.
I rarely use cash for anything today partly because I rarely have much of it in on me, but mostly because using it has been made not as convenient as plastic or shuffling ones & zeros. With almost every aspect of daily finance consisting of swiping a debit or credit card, direct-deposit, auto and online bill pay, etc. cash to me is more for an emergency measure and needed during a rare time someone only accepts cash or the system is down at a business like during a few of the hurricanes we've had. Even converting digital money to something tangible has been made a chore since in most cases it means either going to a bank or ATM and paying extra fees for the privilege.
While despite a common consensus, as someone who has knowledge of the operation of currency I really don't see it totally disappearing in the near future; but our reliance on it will become less and less as time goes by. However given the increasing instances of data breaches and hacking, become a totally cash-less society is going to create many more issues and make it more dangerous when one's entire life savings can be wiped out in seconds leaving one unable to pay for anything.
I used to work in a library, shelving books, and sorting them pre-shelving. You think money is dirty? Spend an afternoon shelving and sorting books.
You come away with hands and fingers almost black...
As someone who checks out quite a lot of books from the public library, I do often wonder what some people before me were doing when reading them as witnessed by the strange odors and unidentifiable stains that I hope was merely some sort of food or drink
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As someone who checks out quite a lot of books from the public library, I do often wonder what some people before me were doing when reading them as witnessed by the strange odors and unidentifiable stains that I hope was merely some sort of food or drink
Oh good lord......eek
Mine is lighter by $110 for buying two of these. And the price has gone up $4 each since I placed my order.
You're welcome.
I had one back in the 90's but it got crushed in a accident. I have missed every reissue since but happy days are finally here again.
I had one back in the 90's but it got crushed in a accident. I have missed every reissue since but happy days are finally here again.
in the mid 90s AMT did some nice models, I remember a really nice model of the Reliant which I kept looking at for what felt like forever but I never bought till it was too late and gone, store closed.
