Cashless, Bitcoin and the Devil walk into a bar ...
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Very similar here. My husband and I only buy with cash. We do not have a "line of credit" anywhere. If we don't have the cash on hand that means we can't afford it, so we save until we do. All around us friends, family and neighbors are buying high end everything (on credit). No thanks.
Same here. I have saved many times for high end items I needed. I remember, which to me was a necessity at the time because I worked 12 hour days for 6 days a week, my dishwasher went out during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. My daughter, who SHOULD have been my dishwasher but suffered ADD and washed one dish for 15 minutes, asked me why I didn't go ahead and buy a new one. I told her that once I got all the holiday fixings and gifts for everyone in our family, that once the holidays were over I would buy a new one. So I had to literally FORCE her to try and keep the dishes washed while I worked. It was a nightmare but I suffered through it. And I started the New Year out with a new dishwasher; a very welcome Christmas present to myself.
Good for you! While I was working I asked my then teenagers to keep the house neat and clean so I didn't have to come home to a mess. One of them was supposed to sweep the family room floor. She swept it and left a nice pile of debris right in the middle of the floor, and didn't understand why I was a bit angry. She then stated that she did all of the hard work and all I had to do was pick it up.
Don't you just love the answers kids come up with. My granddaughter sweeps only the parts of the floor that she sees anything on; forget the whole floor. I haven't asked her to mop yet.
Seems fair, if she can't see it, it's not there.Just so you know, mopping will require a fair bit of sulking and talk of unfairness on her part. Make her do it anyway, it'll be fun to watch.
'bank account linked cards' is 'debit card' in English
Technically the same I guess, you just have to refill it regularly ;-)
But debit cards doesn't necessary need to be linked to a bank either. Today you can have a crypto debit card and pay with say Cardano. It's like what people back in the old days would refer to as a bank of their dreams, i.e savings account with +5% interest, you're in full control, full privacy, and "backed by gold"* as in Cardano is market valued, just like gold so you won't suffer from permanent inflation, value can both go up and down, but generally goes up over time.
In America that's called a "gift card", typically bought when you don't know exactly what someone wants but you know where they can get some cool stuff they'd like.
Sometimes I wonder if this is what My President means with "Save America" .
KEK, maybe, I never thought of it like that.