I can not emphasise how much I enjoyed your comment. Such class and refinement is surely meant for the halls of Valhalla only. ***** Five stars for Catorina's Establishment.
In the last five years, the US Treasury has printed 100 million $2 bills. (It's been decades since I've seen one in circulation.)
When I used to handle a lot of cash, $5-$10K a week in deposits, I'd see maybe one a month? But a lot of servers and bartenders would collect them as they came in. One guy I knew tried to make a brick out of them, like that $10K brick with 100 $100 bills, only with twos. Don't know if he ever got there. Yeah, same. But I eliminated change from all the drawers a few years ago. That's pretty common now for businesses outside of retail.
How does that work? Are all your items priced at full dollar amounts, or do the staff add in tips in an amount to eliminate any change? Or something else, those were just the first two wild thoughts to cross my mind.
Yeah, basically every cash transaction has a tip attached. For the very few that require change we just round up to the guest's benefit. And all the deposits are rounded up or down to an even dollar amount. You couldn't find change for a moment during Covid, but even before that, we only used quarters.
For the place I used to work at, we had to switch to card payment only because the one cash handling facility in the town shut down. Probably because less people were paying with cash, so they couldn't keep it up.
I got two in change from the swimming pool a week ago yesterday. That was pretty cool. I think people save them so they aren't in circulation much.
The clothing worn by the Egtved girl, who was buried around 1370 BC in Denmark during the Bronze Age has been meticulously preserved. Recently a team of experts have successfully recreated her attire using modern techniques and materials.
I can't help thinking about this girl that lived so long ago and wondering: what was she like? Hopes, dreams, fears, all that makes us human...
In Canada, we have nothing smaller than a $5 in paper money - for $1 and $2 we use the Loonie and Toonie
She was my introduction to archeology when I was in fourth grade. Harry Behn wrote a novel about her called The Faraway Lurs that absolutely captivated me. If you're interested in the string skirt, you might also check out Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years. Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber. Smart aleck. Don't I wish. The pool in question is a natural hot spring and has what seems a steep entry fee until one realizes what it costs to see a first run movie nowadays.
I am one of those opposed to the elimination of cash. I have lately tried, mostly in vain, to circulate $1 coins. I believe they are still being made but are hard to come by. I am retired and explore by walking and public transit. There is a local light rail system for which the senior citizens fare is $1.25. I buy tickets from a vending machine with a $20 and get eighteen dollar coins and three quarters. I spend some and hand about half of them to homeless people. One convenience store clerk exclaimed they would save it. I had to admonish them to keep them circulatting. I see $2 bills an average of about one a year.
Cash and coins are an important backup if the digital systems fail. This overreliance on digital currencies and cards may come and bite us in the arse one day if the sun does not play nice. Though I am a big culprit myself, I never use cash, only have a little of it stored.
One of my objections is the way electronic transactions are used to collect demographic and marketing data to make commercial transactions more efficient. What's wrong with efficiency? That efficiency is benefiting the corporate at the expense of the consumer.
Not only that, but it allows your access to your money to be switched off instantly from a computer interface. Scary 1984 stuff.
Why everything sucks now: Same basic idea, but this video goes into much greater detail about specifics in relation to clothes:
Oh great—now it sounds like our federal government has mandated all cars made after 2025 to have a killlswitch installed, purportedly to allow the police to shut it down in order to prevent dangerous chases or to stop drunk driving. Of course that in itself wouldn't be a bad thing, but once the technology is in place, it's only a matter of time before it'll be used to threaten us. Imagine, you make a post on social media somebody in government doesn't like, and next thing you know you can't start your car.
I know a few people who fall into that category who mysteriously ended up on no-fly lists. Or so they claimed. They could have been into some other shenanigans.
