Is It Possible To Phase Out The Old Bangers And Mash?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1661639/cash-phased-out-five-years-banks-atm-cards-online-banking/amp
TBH I'm not bothered either way but for now I do use cash, mainly because that's how I keep track of my day to day spending, I also don't like having a 95 page bank statement with every tuppenny halfpenny item on it. What do we think?

[jourdain2]

A ridiculous idea. Local eggs - an honesty box (cash); hairdresser (1 woman operation) cash; local pubs cash (unless spending over £50); newsagent cash; window cleaner cash; church collection cash - I could go on. Card for supermarket, petrol, bigger amounts at the Post Office or bigger shops (shoes etc.) and that's about it.
Couldn't live without cash - and I know people who don't have cards at all.
I know people without computers.
Mobile phones don't work in our house.
Bank statements are in paper here, thanks.

[ToraToraTora]

crikey jourdain, do you live in Tora Bora?!

[jourdain2]

No, of course not and don't be so sneery. I live a perfectly normal life. That is how it is around here in E. Yorkshire and in most rural areas. Most people in our village of 250+households are the same. This is probably the greater part of the British Isles, by the way. You are falling into the trap into which the Remainers fell - i.e. thinking that metropolitan thought and life was the norm. IT ISN'T!

As it happens, OH has just given up trying to buy anything on line. He's hard of hearing. All these over-cautious security things make it impossible. We can't receive 'once-and-forever' codes on mobiles and if we give the landline number the metallic, mechanical voices fight with his electronic hearing aids to make in incomprehensible blurr of sound. We could manage fine until just a few years ago.

So, I suggest that you try looking a little further around the UK befor suggesting that we live thousands of miles away from it.

[ToraToraTora]

OK apologies, no offence meant, just a TIC comment. I did not realise the extent of the off grid.

[jourdain2]

It's OK T.T.T. I was just surprised at you , that's all. You often seem to be so much in tune, but I have caught you out before in not understanding some basics (remember the MOT 2-yearly question and I pointed out that small garages would die). There is a lot of the UK that is not urban. :)

[ToraToraTora]

I guess sometimes the written word does not always convey the intended humour adequately. I think I agreed that the 2 year MOT was a bad idea...
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Motoring/Question1794006.html
in fact right after your answer at 12:22 on that thread, I said: "yes good point jourdain no one seems to be thinking of the businesses that will suffer if this goes ahead. " - so I don't see how.."I have caught you out before in not understanding some basics" - can be correct.

[davebro]

I don't think cash is going away for smaller payments as pointed out but it is seriously discouraged for anything substantial. I got £1500 cash from my Nationwide account a while back & couldn't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get it.

[emmie]

i had to give my decorator cash, no cheques or any other way to pay, seeing as how my bank only allows a certain amount per day, out of other banks cash points it was a bit of a faff. But i don't use cash often these days.

[1ozzy]

Plastic and online payments for me are very convenient.
Unless I wish to hide them.

[emmie]

that's the trouble with DD and other online payments, you are easily traceable.

[1ozzy]

Not a problem, unless you're hiding something

[emmie]

nope not hiding anything... its just that it is easy to see how marketing get their figures and how the ads are tailored to your spending, buying routines.

[1ozzy]

//I had to give my decorator cash//
Hmm, wonder why,,

[emmie]

no idea, i didn't ask. Its up to him to declare earnings.

[burlyshirley1]

I find that when workmen come to my house, they always want cash, which I have no problem with at all. I always have some cash stashed away at home for such things !

[mjwman]

Good. I have not used cash for about 4 years now. Don't miss it at all

[youngmafbog]

Isnt Bangers and Mash something you find down a lavatory that hasnt been flushed?

Surely its pie and mash you want?

[ToraToraTora]

Maybe I wasn't using my loaf me old china!

[douglas9401]

It's cruel to Mockney the afflicted.

[Canary42]

One area where card payment is welcomed by both parties I would think is on the buses. I regularly catch an early bus into town (i.e. before my bus pass is valid at 9:30) and I used to struggle to get together the right fare, and the bus Company gave the drivers a pitifully small cash float to start out with so they frequently didn't have change and used to have to issue cashable vouchers to be exchanged at the bus station. Now a quick swipe of a Debit/Credit card and hey presto, all done. Easy-peasy for both parties, no holding up a queue behind.