I’ve been paying digitally for a long while and never felt the need for a leather wallet in my pocket. I usually roll up a 10 to 20 dollars in my fob pocket just in case and i usually just forget about it.
Am i the only strange one here
Edit: In india we have UPI and only banks and governments gets the data if using the bhim app by NPCI and even local street vendors have those
Not in Germany.
Lots of bakers, independent fast food vendors, barber shops and small grocery stores still don’t take cards (hmm, I wonder why…)
Forget about paying electronically at street festivals, smaller concert venues, or markets.
The parking meters in my city still only take coins. So do many public toilets.
You need coins to unlock the shopping carts in supermarkets.
If you order something from overseas with a customs fee, you’re expected to pay it to the mailman - Who can only accept cash and carries no change. Oh, and there’s no way to know in advance how much it’ll cost.
Fuck all of that. It’s nice to have cash as an option but I’d not do much where it was required because I’d have to run to an ATM to get cash just for that thing, and few things are worth that extra effort for me. And then I’d have to keep track of that cash, which means I’d just foist it onto the next homeless person I see.
Guess I’m not really making a good case against lol.
The “just in case” amount mentioned amount covers most of those costs. For reference arabian foods just cost below 3 dollars casual fast foods don’t come close to 1 usd