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Originally Posted by Nahoa
I hate change and pay with credit eveywhere I can to get miles and avoid dealing with change and cash. Not really a solution to storing change, I just avoid having any.
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I'm just the opposite and use cash for almost everything. Here's why....
My wife and I were in Whitehorse, Yukon on our way back to Florida from a road trip to Alaska. We stopped to get gas and our card would not go through. We went inside and had the guy run it. It still wouldn't go through. Fortunately we had a stash of what we called in the Army "$hit happens money" in the car. The card worked the next day and the bank never did know why it wouldn't go through. They said they saw no indication of a "hit" on the card. The whole experience got me thinking.... what if we hadn't had any cash on hand and the credit card never did start working again. I am almost exclusively "cash only" now.