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Old 05-20-2014, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by justjim View Post
VPL, I have a good friend who insisted on paying cash for everything. That is until he retired and he and his wife wanted to travel a lot. Do you know how difficult it is to do much traveling without a credit card?

He broke down and got a credit card. Now he sometimes travels for FREE because of the rewards points he gets for using his credit card. But to each his own---like you said----we are retired now and have plenty of time.
How about travelers checks? About 50 years ago I took a trip to Mexico and used travelers checks. I would go to a bank about once a week and convert some of my checks to cash.

Having said that, I'm not all that interested in traveling abroad.