re: Ever met anyone who used cash only?

I had an uncle like that. He made his money in cash exchanges only. Nothing illegal, but he only dealt cash. He was an old school NOLA kid. Always found ways to make money. Whether it was a fruit stand or selling water bottles during Mardi Gras. When the Packers came to NOLA for the Super Bowl, he took some wooden triangle blocks, drilled holes, painted them yellow and attached them to green beads. Make an arse load of cash. He paid for my parents’ wedding reception in cash. Too bad he passed away. He was a kind man.

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My paw paw used to show me all of the places he had cash hidden in his house in case he dropped dead suddenly. He made me remember them all.

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My Grandpa had the family farm with a farmhouse on it that we still have in the extended family but he also had a house in town too.

He was on the local Bank Board and in 1965 when the new clad US coinage came out, he bought the entire bank’s stock of dimes, quarters, halves, and Silver Dollars for their face value.

When he died in ‘74 we spent months finding coins stashed about his town house.

Good times, I’ve still got a few of them.

My grandmother. She was so pissed when the government started doing direct deposit only for social security.

She had thousands of dollars hidden throughout the house and never told anyone. My grandfather decided to move a couple years after she died and my dad and aunt found something like $7k just in two rooms. They ended up having to unpack a lot of stuff that was being donated to go through to check for cash in like every pocket of every piece of clothing among other things.

There's no telling how much cash got left that the new owners have come across.

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My Grandpa had the family farm with a farmhouse on it that we still have in the extended family but he also had a house in town too.

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My paw paw had 38 acres in Central/Pride but it was pretty country even in the 80s. He said it was all dirt roads in 1939 when he bought it. He told me he paid $800 for it. I think it's worth around 800-900k right now. Pretty decent ROI.

It'll be developed for a neighborhood or something like that when my dad and his sister decide to sell it. Central school districts and all.

My grandpa used cash mostly for most of the reasons mentioned already. He even had a old butter tub in the fridge that he kept a few hundred in. Someone that live around him eventually stole it one day.

A great grandfather used to keep cash in a suitcase under the bed.

I rarely ever use cash. The credit card rewards are just too much to pass up on for people with just a little common sense and self control.

I had a great uncle that went by cash only. He owned a general store. Whenever someone paid with a fifty or hundred dollar bill he just put it in his pocket and didn't record the sale.

When he died my dad and his brothers and sisters had to clean out the store, and his house because there were no children. They found envelopes with cash all over the place... under floor boards, in the attic, stuffed in coffee cans. They also found cans of silver coins all over the place because my great uncle hoarded silver coins. There were several hundred thousand dollars squirrels away.

I'm sure there is more in the walls, and probably cans of silver coins buried around the property even today.

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I'm sure there is more in the walls, and probably cans of silver coins buried around the property even today.

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Ain't nobody here can beat the 1,427 US gold coins from the Saddle Ridge hoard found in California in 2013.

Eight old rusty cans buried on a ranch.

Wikipedia Link to the stirry

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credit card companies aren't making their money off of us.

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We own a retail store here in Bham. The transaction fees we pay for the privilege of accepting your credit card are astronomical. While my business pays that fee, it’s my customers that truly pay that.

I always get a kick out of people that think they are getting shite “for free” using their credit card points. You paid out the arse for those points.

When I was a bartender and coming home with cash every night, I would deposit large bills in my bank and keep 1’s and change (usually $50 in ones/per shift and a few bucks worth of change) in a shoebox in my closet. I’d take the shoebox to the bank at the end of the month and use it for rent money. Bank tellers probably hated me but oh well.