The only time I use cash is to buy an occasional $1 Lottery ticket.
Checks? Same story.
My apartment building suddenly decided not to accept credit card rent payments anymore, so I write a check now.
Before that, I had not written check in almost five years.
Before that, the last two checks I wrote were to renew my Passport and my Drivers License, because almost no government agencies accept cards, or, they did not accept them five years ago, anyway.
Unless a person is doing something illegal or embarrassing, I have no idea why they carry cash, in the USA, anyway.
My local marijuana store is cash only, but so far I have not bought any, partly because it was really hard to stop smoking it 30 years ago, and partly because holding smoke inside your lungs cannot be good for your long term health.
I find cash great for shopping, still. Fast food, grocery store.
But it’s rare when I have any substantial amount of it anymore.
And you'll still have no idea, right up to the moment that they freeze your accounts with the flick of a switch for Wrongthink, and posting on Free Republic.
I'm not attacking you personally, BTW.
I use cash as much as possible, because I was a database administrator in a previous life. ;-)
Well, put me in prison for not going all out tech.
Unless a person is doing something illegal or embarrassing, I have no idea why they carry cash***
I know people that never carry cash
I encourage them to always have some with them just in case.
I don’t like to purposely allow myself to be tracked, so in some places I will not use a card
I do use them just to make the beast happy, so they think they know where I am all the time.