It Is Not The Strength Of The Body That Counts, But The Strength Of The Spirit.

I copied this from someone else.  Very interesting and it really made me stop and think about using cash more often.  I have really never thought of this – has anyone else?

Please understand what NOT using cash is doing … and why cash is important.

Why should we pay cash everywhere we can with bank notes instead of a credit card?

I have a $50 bank note in my pocket.  Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it.  The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay for the laundry.  The laundry owner then uses the bill to pay the barber.  The barber will then use the bill for shopping.  After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a $50 note, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank is dry from every cash payment transaction made.

But if I come to a restaurant and pay digitally with my credit card and bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around $1.50, and so will the fee be $1.50 for each further payment transaction or owner for the laundry or payments of the owner of the laundry shop, or payments of the barber etc.  Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 and the remaining $45 will become the property of the bank thanks to all digital transactions and fees.

Small businesses need your help and this is one way to help ourselves too.  Pull small draws of cash out at a time and use that instead of tap, credit, etc.  When this is put into perspective, imagine what each retailer is paying on a monthly basis in fees at 3% per transaction through their POS machine.  If they have, for example, $50,000 in sales & 90% are by Card, they are paying $1500 in fees in ONE Month. $18,000 in a year! That comes out of their income every month.

That would go a long way to helping that small business provide for its family!

I wonder which part flees to the other for a better life.

This is right on the mark!

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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Anaïs Nin (via wordsnquotes)

Overthinking is the biggest cause of your unhappiness. Keep yourself occupied. Keep your mind off things that don’t help you.

unkown (via wsabe)

Dapper day heading out to the Distinguished Gentlemens Ride.

My favorite pic from back in the day.

This could be fun.