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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 4410342, member: 15588&quot;]I&#039;ve said this here elsewhere before, but I unintentionally went cashless over the past 5 years or so. During that time, cash became more of an inconvenience for me because it required going to an ATM or to a bank to get it. My card works everywhere and I have yet to experience a single store or vendor that doesn&#039;t accept plastic. Even every vendor I went to at our State Fair last year accepted plastic. So I would now have to go <i>out of my way</i> to use cash. Without realizing it, I stopped using cash completely. Then one day I woke up and realized that I hadn&#039;t even <i>seen </i>a $20 bill in months. I had no cash, no pocket change. I panicked at first because, as a kid, I lived through the generation before ATMs, when the money that you had on your person had better last until the banks reopened. Back then &quot;my last $20&quot; meant something. It meant <i>your last one</i> until you could go to a bank. So people pretty much <i>always </i>had to have cash (or checks) on them at all times. Those days seem to have greatly diminished, though not completely vanished yet. It also seems to depend on where one lives. I live in a pretty big city where everything has become digitized. Things seem a little different in rural areas, where I remember needing cash on road trips in the past. But the last few road trips I took through the countryside, maybe a year ago, didn&#039;t require any cash. I think it will take a while, but I do think that physical money will eventually disappear, unless the world takes a drastic turn in some way, which does appear to be happening at present. So who knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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