Without realising it, I’ve converted to “cashless” in the last few years, I now use plastic or Online for everything. I have had a solitary £20 note in my back pocket for months without ever using it. Even the window-cleaner is “cashless”.
Lifetime, since I started earning decent money in my twenties & thirties, I’ve always enjoyed the feel of carrying a nice wedge of folding in my back pocket, but that’s all gone now. Partly an ego thing I suppose, Billy Big Bollox, it gave me a good feeling, especially as in my earlier life I’d never had any money. Course, I’ve wasted & frittered most of it, but that’s another story altogether…
Anyway, for Vegas I took dollars – real dollars, proper folding, & I suddenly realised how much I miss using cash & carrying a wedge. I got it a few weeks ago, & amused myself almost nightly by sitting at home counting it like a little old miser. Weird but true. US Dollars have a lovely smell too, though I don’t generally sit there sniffing it.
Just to be contrary, I don’t use ANY plastic or Online cash in Vegas, just dollar bills. And I love it, peeling off a few hundo like a dude every chance I get. Once a year, it can do no harm.
I am happy to admit i love counting readies and always have a chunk on me at home and outside. I was told right at the start of my online punting career by a dinosaur 'if you going to do it online have a chunk of cash next to your desk so you can sit and look at it when you hit the raise or bet button' ive always done that and never got out of the habit of it as weird as it sounds. I still buy most things in cash wherever possible.