re: Ever met anyone who used cash only?

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My paw paw died a multi millionaire and had no credit score. He had never borrowed a dollar in his life. He had to pay a deposit to turn on his cable service when he finally got it

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Your paw paw was a drug dealer. Sorry.

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Your paw paw was a drug dealer. Sorry.

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He didn't even drink. He made good money for the time and probably saved 70% of it. He lived in a house he built himself on land that he paid cash for and grew probably half of the food they ate. Just a different generation of people.

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Lots of our grandparents and great grandparents were around during the depression when there was a run on banks and you couldn’t get your money out.

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When my great grandpa died my family spent a day finding all the money they had hid. Tons of cash from the 20s up through the 80s. He was a farmer and mailman so we think my great grandma just took the cash and put it in the walls/beds/attics/etc. until she died in the mid 80s. My grandparents paid cash for their custom built house in the early 50s. They only had one credit card in the 90s and rarely used it (paid the statement in full when they did.) My parents were the first to use cards & checks. I'm the first to use debit/online bill pay extensively. I suspect my kids will be the first to use mainly online banking and contactless phone pay.

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A lot of older people who grew up during the depression didn’t trust banks and would stockpile cash.

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I get it, but in the end, they were worse off for it.

I’m not 100% cash but I’m close. I collect old coins and purposely pay in cash to get coins back. Also, I put all pocket change into a protein container and I use that for extra spending money when we do a vacation. It adds up if you work 7 days a week like I do and are constantly buying breakfast

I have enough chase ultimate reward points to stay at a Hyatt for 2 months... stupid not to if you pay in full.... 200k delta and American airline miles

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My uncle always used cash and paid all bills by a check in the mail, up until his death in 2017.

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81 year old Mom (almost 82) just in the last 6 months has converted to online bill pay. Still no direct debit on the stuff (don't blame her, I only did it due to travel). She still has trouble with it though, passwords and proper website for whichever bill.

(her gas bill is kinda messed up since she paid the electric amount and then reversed charges and this just so happened to be while bill was being tabulated on the gas so it still reads as paid ahead but also shows the pmt reversal )

Stringbean Akeman of "Hee Haw" fame:

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Akeman was modest and unassuming, and he enjoyed hunting and fishing. Accustomed to the hard times of the Great Depression, Akeman and his wife Estell lived frugally in a small cabin at 2308 Baker Road, near Ridgetop, Tennessee. Their only indulgences were a Cadillac and a color TV. Depression-era bank failures caused Akeman not to trust banks with his money.[4] Gossip around Nashville was that Akeman kept large amounts of cash on hand, though he was by no means wealthy by entertainment industry standards.

On Saturday night, November 10, 1973, Akeman and his wife returned home after he performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Both were shot dead shortly after their arrival. The killers had waited for hours. Their corpses were discovered the following morning by their neighbor, Grandpa Jones.[4]

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My cousin does, but he has shitty credit and doubt he can even get a checking account. I guess that doesn’t count though.

I know a guy who doesn’t invest a dime. Bank gets some of it in savings and the rest is in safes here and there. He always has $10K in his pocket to buy shite on the spot.
He is close to 8 digits. He’s old but he did it his way buying and selling shite on a cash basis.