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Post by Meri-Lyn on Apr 24, 2016 1:29:09 GMT
Meri-lyn...merchants had to switch to the chip reader by Oct or they would have to absorb the fraud. For some the fraud costs are less than the cost to covert their POS terminals, so they still do swipe. I guess so. I was at Ross today, they had a tag stuck in their machine, saying you couldn't use the chip. I guess if that's what they want to do.... I would still feel better when everyone is on the chip system and is consistent with it.
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Post by sues on Apr 24, 2016 2:06:30 GMT
I have saved over 3 grand but it has taken over 2 years! I do the 52 weeks of savings. There are 52 weeks in a year. Week 1 you put $1.00 in an envelope. Week 12 you put $12.00 in an envelope. so on and so forth. At the end of the year you have $1,378.00. I am on my third year of doing it. I am planning to use the money to take my daughter to New York when she is a Senior. I'm doing this too. I usually have some cash in my wallet- my HS daughter seems to need money for school stuff all the time. I have just tried to take the envelope money out of my wallet first- then deal with what I have left for the week. So far, so good.' I'm hoping to use it to defray the cost of 5 Hamilton tickets, when it finally gets to Chicago later this year.
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Post by winogirl on Apr 24, 2016 2:44:01 GMT
I've never tried that with bills, but I should...at least with ones anyway; I always seem to have an abundance of them. I always throw my change in a huge water cooler bottle and in the past ten or so years, I've cashed my change in twice and it's been enough to pay for a flat screen tv, an ipad, a new computer monitor and new car expenses. Just with change. Awesome Dh and I pay for all our non-bill personal expenditures in cash. I seldom use the debit card...that would make me crazy to have to keep track of that...I know how much cash I have and when it's gone, it's gone!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 24, 2016 5:34:45 GMT
I've never tried that with bills, but I should...at least with ones anyway; I always seem to have an abundance of them. I always throw my change in a huge water cooler bottle and in the past ten or so years, I've cashed my change in twice and it's been enough to pay for a flat screen tv, an ipad, a new computer monitor and new car expenses. Just with change. Awesome Dh and I pay for all our non-bill personal expenditures in cash. I seldom use the debit card...that would make me crazy to have to keep track of that...I know how much cash I have and when it's gone, it's gone! PSA time. DH did that once, and it was such a massive pain to get it back out again to take it to the bank that he said "never again!" It took HOURS to get it all out through the skinny neck of the bottle, digging at it with a metal letter opener the whole time to keep the coins coming out. Now he throws his loose change in an empty wide mouth plastic peanut butter filled pretzel jar from Costco. They also sell animal crackers in a pretty good sized tub with a wide mouth like that. Not nearly as big as the water bottle, but MUCH quicker to empty out once it gets full!
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