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Originally Posted by Michael 61
I’m thinking may need to go back to using cash again - especially at gas stations.
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Agree, but in reality.... it's difficult to do of course. You can not make a flight or hotel reservation without one. My mother was one of THE very last holdouts concerning credit cards. She refused the entire concept for years, what took her over the cliff was the day she tried to book a flight to Texas and was unable to do so. She called me to make the reservation, then finally relented and was "forced" by the times to get one credit card ! I know growing up my parents we EXTREMELY "old fashioned" people. They paid cash for everything, EVERYTHING. Nothing was purchased if there was not enough to pay for it ! That included automobiles if you can believe that ! For an automobile they paid by check, not cash, but never until the total price had been "saved up". It's amazing how they lived, tried to explain to the grands. One grandson could not understand HOW they could get FOOD without a credit card ! It was like trying to explain a corded phone and what a "typewriter" was.....lol !