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I prefer using cash but I think it is going out of fashion, what do you all think or use?

I seldom use cash, I use a card, mainly contactless, for as much as possible. I use cash when I shop on the market, OH draws a little cash now and then and passes me what I need, saves me going to the bank myself.

I use a mixture - cash for small amounts and a card for bigger sums. OH uses cash all the time. Everybody here takes cash, apart from the dentist. The minimart in the village actually has a notice on the door asking people to use cash as using a card costs the shop and puts prices up!

My hubby would much rather use card but for me cash is king.

Both. I resent having to use a card fir small sums.

I mainly use card but always carry cash. One large independent garden centre here only uses cards.
However I would not want to go cashless.

Like AnnG I mainly use card but always carry a small amount of cash, just in case :-)

Mainly card, but some things, such as donations at local charity coffee mornings, have to be cash, as there's no facility for paying any other way.

One shop I went into I asked if they accepted cash, they said no so I went elsewhere.

I actually pay my chiropodist cash because it is cheaper than paying by card. (no I don't know if that is legal but it is easy as he is in town and near my bank so I can just draw the cash.)

I always have cash incase the system goes down when i'm shopping which it did one xmas eve!! Thankfully i had plenty in cash to cover as many abandoned their trolleys and left with nothing.

Trouble is, when that happens, shops don't have a plan B as we dont have cheques with guarantee cards now so the only option is to pay in cash.

I'm really not sure how we could ever be a cashless society totally. I mean i bought some raffle tickets recently for £2 and i paid cash. Was not going to use my card for such a small amount.

Our local cash machines are always getting vandalised so no chance of getting cash

out unless the post office is open :-0 :-0

Luckily all the shops take cards. :-D

I usually pay for everything by card,or using my phone to be exact, but I like to have a few pound coins for the weekly raffle at my slimming class, but getting hold of coins is very difficult.
Banks will only give you coins if you bank with them and there isn’t a Nationwide branch here. There is a banking hub which the four main banks staff one day a week each, but Nationwide being a building society isn’t covered, so I can’t get coins out. I need to go to another town where there is a Nationwide branch and hope that someone has paid some in so I can get some out. Being a building society and not a bank, they don’t have to provide coins in the way a bank does.

Linda - you can withdraw cash at a Post Office with your Nationwide card.

AG I was going to suggest that too lol I get £30 pound coins and £10 worth of 50ps every so often from the PO so I've always got change at home.

Linda, every now and then use a £20 to buy something and then you will have some change in your purse.

My brother once withdrew money from a cash machine at his local supermarket the day before he went abroad. It was only when he came back and checked his balance he realised, more cash had gone from his account. The cash machine had a hidden scammer camera on it. he did get all his money back from the bank eventually.

He actually goes in the bank and draws out £500 and pays for everything in cash as he doesn't trust the machines anymore or paying by card.

By the same token, my father does that too. Always deals in cash and only now & again uses his card. He says, he doesn't want the bank to know where he spends his money and how much ,as that's an invasion of his privacy!!

Thank you AG, I will try that. We haven’t had a post office for about three months because the lease on the premises was up. It has just reopened in a new place