Paying with cash is the most private method. I hope it stays.
You already can’t in so many places. I thought it was required to accept cash, but apparently that’s only for paying the government.
Some ATMs track the serial numbers of the bills you get. Even then, though, it’s more private than a card. Unless they have video of you shoving the bills into a machine for payment, say at Walmart self-checkout, they really don’t know how many hands the bills passed through before they passed through a reader again. Also, good if you can get a store to break the large bills for you. Then, they only know that you paid for a pack of gum with a 100-dollar bill.
My wallet isn’t owned by a tech conglomerate that has access and admin privileges to everything inside of it. Also, I just don’t want my phone to be everything, especially my I.D.
My phone’s dead. Guess I’m broke until I find a charger.
Admittedly, I only have a couple of gen Z friends, but they both have the biggest wallets of anyone I know.
Yep. Teacher here. They (almost) all have wallets.
My fellow millennials are usually the ones who have their entire lives on their phones or just those little metal card cases.
Millennial with a hairband for a wallet here.
Almost like no generation is a monolith.
Get out of here with your nuance.
Are they named George Costanza?
I 100% tell him that his good friend is morbidly obese.
Us millennials must age gracefully if youth can’t recognize our age until they ask for our wallet
Checking out at the liquor store
Cashier: “Can I see your ID?”
Me: “Awww. I hardly ever get ‘carded’ anymore. It feels kind of nice.”
Starts to pull out wallet
Cashier: “Oh, nevermind. You’re good.”
Me: “…Listen here you little shit. You started this whole thing. Now I’m going to show you my ID anyways and you’re going to act surprised like ‘OMG! I could have sworn he was 22! I didn’t even notice his bald spot.’”.
We’re well known to have aged particularly gracefully
Yeah, humans still occasionally acquire important small pieces of paper or plastic that are convenient to stow in some type of small container that can be keep on the person, what a shock.
Yeah but inside it is $3.50
Nah. It’s just cards. I haven’t touched cash in a decade, but I do have way too many cards I need that can’t go in my phone.
Do kids in the US not have wallets? I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t have one (in Germany)
Yeah, because paying by card isn’t an option everywhere in Germany. The only time I carry cash is when I visit Germany.
Meanwhile I’m over here with my 1.5in thick wallet with a shitton of different cards and cash.
I was born in 2000, so I count as gen Z, and I genuinely prefer using physical debit card to paying with a phone (except when I need to touch the keyboard on a terminal).
But I’m weird like that and I like physical things, like my wallet with a sewing kit and bottle opener. In other pocket I keep a knife and a small flashlight
And I’m not installing my government app, and especially I’m not installing some shitty gym membership app, when I can have a card in my wallet.
If you can, I’d suggest switching to a credit card and just pay it off every month. The general lack of consumer protection on debit cards is frightening. So many companies put minimum effort in protecting your data.
This is how me, the murican, thinks also. but my euro wife thinks it’s bonker to even keep a personal credit card and that having any amount of debt is like the worst position you can be in. ¯(ツ)/¯
Pretty much the same, renting a car while on vacation would be the only scenario I could think of that a credit card would be useful. And yes I live in EU
Having a credit card is even considered a liability when applying for mortgage here
Perhaps its different there, Europe has far better general consumer protection policies. But in the US, generally, if someone gets your debit card info, they can drain your account and the bank won’t do anything. The money is gone.
That’s because the brain rot starts around 2005+
There are cash only fairs and stuff but then you just take cash in your pocket or bra
Most places will tell you to fuck off if you start handing them cash from your bra, no one wants your boob sweat.
I had an obese customer pay me from her fat tiddy purse and do you know what I did?
I took the goddamned sweaty bills, thanked her, and used the cash to buy edibles at the dispensary later that week.
Dunno what palace you live in but $ > boob sweat
Damn, where I’m from boob sweat is more highly valued than money
I think it depends on the boob, and the boob carrier.
K
Whoof. Tough crowd.
I was hoping to at least get a sensible chuckle from “fat tiddy purse”, but I guess they can’t all be winners
I’ve worked retail, I’ve had people try that shit. We had a sign for a reason, that shits nasty.
Oh yeah for sure. If I was an employee? Nah, hard pass on that ol tiddy sweat. I get it.
Since I’m
unemployedan “entrepreneur” I’ll take what I can get lol
When I’m out I keep my phone on airplane mode and in a little faraday bag. I am not dragging out my phone and waiting for it to reacquire signal every time I want to buy cigarettes. Nevermind that defeats the point of the faraday bag…
I’ve never used a wallet. I either put my credit card and ID in my jeans or the small zipped pocket of my purse. 2 cards don’t deserve to have their own wallet - what do y’all put in there?
A few credit cards (used to carry only two, but when one got swallowed by an atm in a foreign country I learned better), a debit card, id card, drivers license, medical insurance card, car key card, bills, coins. Sometimes a few receipts to expense or the odd parking card.
Basically everything is a backup, my phone has all my credit and debit cards and my car key, but I still carry the wallet just in case: phone dead, traffic stop, sick, etc.
I thought it was crossbody bags and side partings that gave us away?
Oh crap, has the side part came back too? I used to hate my mom brushing my hair like that when it looked too messy for her… That being said I do miss my mom and would probably wear my hair like that if it would bring her back.
I don’t think it ever left… Its not popular with Gen Z that’s for sure but I love my side parting! Give it a go for her.
I still have a wallet in there to keep my IDs and important cards
Well yeah, gotta have a nice purse, its too useful, didn’t mean it as a separate thing just that apparently crossbodies are apparently a very millennial thing…
If I was much older I wouldn’t even count as a millennial, and Im genuinely shocked by some of these replies.
People don’t seem to realize
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Phone cases can have credit card holders in them
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Some states now have virtual driver’s licenses
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if your phone breaks or whatever all your data is accessible from another device and freeze all your accounts if for some reason you skipped #1.
There really is no need for a wallet anymore.
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You guys don’t pay with cash?
So every purchase you make, doesn’t matter how small, you give a cut to the payment processor? I’d be fucking pissed if I were a small shop selling to you. In fact there are many shops that just refuse to sell if you buy something too cheap through a payment processor.
Paying with credit raises your credit score which is required as a check for getting rentals or apartments unfortunately.
What the fuck
It costs me 2-4% to pay with cash. I don’t care about how much money I make for the business, I care how much an item costs me. If paying with credit costs me 2-4% less I’m going to do that. Plus all the added perks, like doubling of manufacture warranty, or travel insurance, to name a couple.
