Cash

This. I absolutely can not stand it when people put coins in their mouth. ERGH. The thought of it. It used to be the done thing as 'the trick' for fixing coins that machines wouldn't accept. I want to be sick just thinking about it.
I don't actively deal with cash anymore, unless its given to me as PDs in work, or say if I'm going half's with someone for food/takeout somewhere.

Good idea for a thread,Sir
I’ll get the ball rolling with my two pennorth (pun intended)
My issue is with the new notes that have a plasticy(is that a word?)feel and are difficult/impossible to fold and always seem to want to escape my pockets.Don’t use a wallet as they always feel too bulky in my suits.
Contactless payment is a great idea in my opinion.Not sure what the point of small change is anymore to be honest.I buy most of my theatre tickets online these days.

I mainly use a debit card these days but I keep a supply of cash for four reasons:

1) Parking meters.

2) Tips when I've had a meal. Some PIN Entry Devices allow the addition of a gratuity, but if they don't I have to use cash.

3) Small transactions. Bank charges make it uneconomical for small businesses to accept low-value card payments so it's cash or go without. (I suspect anyone attempting to pay by cheque would get a withering "Seriously?")

4) Equipment failure. There are so many possible points of failure between a PED and the bank that it's inevitable you'll eventually find yourself with a card payment that won't work, so it's always worth having enough cash on hand to cover any reasonable sum you're likely to have to pay.

The thing that stopped me using cash was that I kept on ending up with low-value coins that I couldn't be bothered to count out when buying something, so bit by bit they accumulated. When I eventually got around to taking them to the bank I had (IIRC) nearly 8 kg of small change.

I'm like Her Maj, I don't carry cash anymore.

I like tapping away. I also like contactless too. Fnar.

Because of certain situation I can't at the moment or have I ever had a debit or credit card. I mean I can't do a lot of things including going to see shows you can only book with a card. I have bought every ticket for shows at box office or tkts in cash. My life is cash. I work in a shop and average 30% of our sales are cash. I doubt very much if it would be applicable unless banking changed dramatically that we would ever be cashless. You would have to ensure EVERYONE had access to some sort of card and no ID (like homeless and a small % of people who have had problems and can't get ID like passport/DL).

You only have to look at China to see that it’s entirely possible to go cashless. You can’t stop progress and I think much like the digital switchover or Decimalisation, it’ll be governments that decide when to phase out cash.

When you are out and about in public do you wear disposable gloves and carry disinfectant with you, while wearing a surgical mask, to avoid all the germs, dirt, skin flakes, mites, snot, phlegm, urine and other bodily fluids that exist on every single object and surface you come into contact with and inhale with every breath?!

There's ton of videos on it from various news organisations like CNN and the Wall Street Journal. This is a very interesting non news based one from Mamahuhu, 

I don't think I've used cash at all so far in 2019. No transaction amount is too small - bought a banana yesterday for 25p on my AmEx.

In Russia I still need cash for buses, small outdoor shops/stalls. And also pretty much everything may accidentally be "sorry we do not accept cards at the moment please pay in cash only".
I used to bring cash only to the UK due to the currency exchange rate fluctuations: at least with cash, I knew exactly how much money I have. But this year I got a GBP account meaning I can convert rubles into pounds and then just change the account I'm paying from when I'm arriving in the UK. It is actually much easier to pay with Apple Pay everywhere, and it feels like in London you can actually survive without cash. In Moscow, you can do that as well but I live 20 km outside Moscow and our town buses are still behind the progress.

I usually use cash.Not everyone has a smartphone. I no longer have any mobile.

I always where possible use cash.

I have bank accounts and cards that are all active and I use them when buying tickets and bits online, but whenever in public I 99% of the time use cash. I do use my card when on the tube as I find it easier.

Bear in mind I'm not old, I fall into the *post-millennial* category. And as said before technology fails all the time, last year when all VISA's went down at one of my busiest events!!!! I wouldn't hesitate to say many thousands at the event were stuck without cash- their cards wouldn't work at all! I have apple pay in my phone and I'd say out of the few times I've used it, it hasn't worked and I end up paying cash. In my mind things are good just now. Cashless technology is advancing, good, but also having the common sense to realise tech can't be trusted, and have something to fall back on.

I think every person, no matter their age will have a different take on this issue.