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Buying gas I was reviewing ways to move to all cash, as a budget tool.

I realised in this area it is next to impossible to buy gas without a card.

What things are you finding are hard to buy, off the card?

Not sure impossible is the best word but very inconvenient is common. Hotels and rental cars and air travel are difficult without a card. Gas is more convenient with a card but you can certainly prepay with cash.

68Camaro wrote: Gas is more convenient with a card but you can certainly prepay with cash.

I've always seen prepay pumps as a sign that it's time to move.

Gas station gift cards are a decent way to avoid CCs with the convenience of paying at the pump or filling up after-hours.

The annual Rock-in-Rio festival is in Vegas this year, a few blocks from my place in fact. Thought about walking over and checking out the scene but discovered it's cashless - "Your wristband is your wallet".

http://rockinrio.com/usa/cashless/

Edit: Just talked to someone who went. Single beers were $12.50 and if you weren't careful, vendors added tips to the price since tip cups weren't allowed. He talked to people who said vendors eventually started adding tips without even asking people. Some people spent far more on food than admission! And if you didn't spend all the money you uploaded to your wristband, they charged you $3 to get the balance back in cash.

$3 to get a refund? That's robbery. Im surprised that they call it a refund instead of converting rock points to dollars. Either way lots of events are creating their own fun money recently. People must not be converting the fun money back into dollars.

deacon wrote:$3 to get a refund? That's robbery. Im surprised that they call it a refund instead of converting rock points to dollars. Either way lots of events are creating their own fun money recently. People must not be converting the fun money back into dollars.

That's what I thought. Apparently it's free to have the money refunded to a debit or credit card.

I just went back to .. more or less .. cash but I still have a pocket full of credit cards, I try to use them for the cash back purposes but hate getting CC bills in the mail a month later. I tried something new, you spend on CC, move the funds from checking into a separate savings account.