BBC’s radio feature “Culture Shock” wonders if Cash is on the rise. They point to a (mostly anecdotal) trend of desperate housewives of New York using wads of cash, instead of plastic, to buy stuff. The reason: avoid marital confrontation and painful explanation of the spending trail. Also credit cards have kind of become a great leveler. Everybody (except poor) could get a credit card and pulling out a wad of $100 bills is different (Yeah, yeah, Credit companies have Silver, Gold and Platinum. But its still plastic gold and plastic platinum; Not even close to GREEN).

I was thinking what if we are given the ability to lump all our ‘anonymous’ purchases thru plastic under a “Misc” category? It might be okay if the sum total of category is decent, but there is a good possibility for misc to be the largest chunk (For something totally different, DST for 8 months and ‘Normal’ time for 4 months ?). Anyways, are you using more cash than you used to? I am definitely not.