I'm so old I Remember when:

[jxp]

Oh I forgot about Bazooka Joe. Has he left us?

Nope. Still available. See website for details on where to buy.

May be just an inflated childhood memory but THAT….WAS…..AWESOME….GUM!

Probably changed the formula like a lot of things. Even "original" coke which I'm certain no longer contains cocaine.

 

[BDutch]

I remember we used actual money to pay. Coins and paper money .

We had an ATM on the wall of every bank and several other convenient places to draw money in the town where I live.

At one point you had to be careful and look out for fake supplements with pass scanners.
Later it got more violent with explosives to open te safe who often damaged the building too.

With Covid most people started to pay everything with a bank-card in the shops.

Nowadays there are only cash machines/ATMs in a few shops on opening hours. The only one that is outside and accessible 24/7 is out of order for a month now.

Nowadays it’s getting almost impossible to pay with cash and we need to pay with a card or phone almost all the time.

This is the situation in the Netherlands. How do you pay where you live?

 

[AntiqueB]

I remember before ATMs! If you didn't get yourself to a bank (and those had hours M-F from maybe 9:30-4) with a withdrawal slip, you weren't buying anything!

These days, credit card fees are so high, some merchants, especially restaurants, are charging extra to use credit cards (around 3%). Some people still use cash, but most use credit cards, I think. I don't see a lot of people using their phones to pay around here.

 

[Rick589]

Cash almost 100% of the time. Withdrawal from ATM, spend it, withdrawal some more. Because of the decrepit postal system I do pay my bills online, and occasionally will still write a check.

 

[RoyalChick]

Cash almost 100% of the time. Withdrawal from ATM, spend it, withdrawal some more. Because of the decrepit postal system I do pay my bills online, and occasionally will still write a check.

I don't really remember when ATMs really took off - but I do remember the cash coming by going into a bank and writing a check to 'cash'.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Cash almost 100% of the time. Withdrawal from ATM, spend it, withdrawal some more. Because of the decrepit postal system I do pay my bills online, and occasionally will still write a check.

Places still accept cheques!? (Yes, that's how Canadians spell it!)

 

[Rick589]

I don't really remember when ATMs really took off - but I do remember the cash coming by going into a bank and writing a check to 'cash'.

My ATM’s are the banks ATM’s,

Places still accept cheques!? (Yes, that's how Canadians spell it!)

yep, many( most I suppose) just convert them to an electronic transfer. Treat them as though it was a debit card.

 

[Rick589]

I remember before ATMs! If you didn't get yourself to a bank (and those had hours M-F from maybe 9:30-4) with a withdrawal slip, you weren't buying anything!

These days, credit card fees are so high, some merchants, especially restaurants, are charging extra to use credit cards (around 3%). Some people still use cash, but most use credit cards, I think. I don't see a lot of people using their phones to pay around here.

I rarely use a credit card. Usually it will be for an online purchase of vegetable seeds or such.

 

[jxp]

I spent the summer after graduation in Columbus, GA where my sister was stationed at Ft. Benning. Being from the northeast this was my first exposure to a lot of southern dishes (as well as "y'all"). Up until that summer I'd never even heard of okra, for instance, let alone tasted it.

At the cafeteria style restaurant where I got a summer job on the beverage line, they had me fill a tray that was around 12 glasses wide by 12 deep with tea. There'd be 11 rows of sweet tea and just 1 of unsweetened. Now I had one aunt who used to put a teaspoon of sugar in her glass of tea. That had been my full exposure. The shear volume of sugar added to the beverage and consumed by all the belles and beaus was definitely culture shock.

My favorite - by far - that I'd never been exposed to up in Yankee land was Dr Pepper. This was an amazing flavor. I looked on the bottle and clear as day, among the ingredients was prune. Why the company tries to gaslight everyone by claiming their beverage NEVER contained this ingredient just floors me.

 

[Rick589]

I like cash because it gives you a little bit of anonymity, just a little bit. If you have only cash and get robbed all they get is what you have on you, I like having the opportunity to confuse the younger generation, being seen as going rogue is a definite benefit to using cash, and cash always works and is available to settle a spur of them moment deal or purchase not being conducted at a retail establishment. Of course, I could just be a weird puppy.