old £20.00 notes

[Richiew]

Salaries are reported to HMRC by employers on a real time basis too. DWP and local authorities can and do check them in regard to benefit claims.

 

[Robotstar5]

Cash is doomed anyway. In the shop cash takings have gone way down and most people pay contactless, even for sales less than £1 I’ve had people wanting to pay by card.

The canteens at work went cashless a few months ago, so even a slice of toast has to be paid for contactless

 

[Cobbler]

The canteens at work went cashless a few months ago, so even a slice of toast has to be paid for contactless

I knew of someone that worked in a factory where the canteen went cashless on the charge up card system. Put £10 on his card on the way to the canteen, there was a huge thunderstorm on the way over. Got his meal, tea whatever & went to pay .... nothing .... the electrical field from the storm had wiped the card.

 

[knighty]

most of my customers pay cash, I'm a regular at the (small) local branch of my bank, enough that they recognise me when I go in (I dn't really think they like counting cash or banking cheques)

I've been in before paying cash into my person account at the same time, if the banks empty I can cheet and use two windows at once (next to each other) while one is sorting business account, check it's ok with them and then use the teller next to them for personal account

even then.... paying cash into personal account they'll ask where it came from - normally pointing at the teller next to them is good enough lol

 

[V6BOY]

My dad moved house a few years go and found about fifteen hundred quid in old twenties in a tin behind a fitted wardrobe. He didn't have any problem getting it swapped/cashed in at a bank.

Probably left behind by someone that passed away more than likely.

 

[Wedg1e]

I throw all the loose shrapnel, coppers, 5ps, 20ps etc into a big tub, when it gets full bag it all up and take it to pay in the bank, takes months to fill, longer sometimes. Last time I went in they said they won't take more than 10 bags of change so for coppers there's a quid in each one, 5 and 20p a fiver so small amounts still, these are the sorted out little plastic money bags. They did it for me that time as a one off but in future they won't.

Cash will be gone within the decade, maybe sooner.

Ditto.. or at least with 5p pieces I do. Took me 6 years to fill a Pelforth beer bottle, I squeezed £40.05 into it

 

[Wedg1e]

and when you want to borrow its sky high

Oh no it isn't! When I worked at Yorkshire Bank in the early 80s we had investment accounts that were paying 11% plus... but mortgages were running at 15%. Mind you the house price stupidity hadn't started then; you could buy a flat near me for £9K. They're £109K now (leasehold!), and they aren't getting younger and they're not getting any bigger. Can you imagine the carnage of 15% on what people need to borrow for a house now??!!

 

[brightspark]

paid 28 grand for my house 2 month later I got offered nearly double the prices went stupid and any house available was snapped up in a week everyone was getting gazumped

 

[Wedg1e]

I used to charge 50p to use a card for transactions under £5 but they changed the law so this wasn’t allowed. The payment companies write into the contract that you cannot refuse a transaction because of the amount. Even paying money into the bank you are charged. The banks have business over every way. As said they are sharks.

Until the early 1990s (if not later) even personal accounts had charges; cheques, standing orders etc. had to be paid for.
As a staff member, though, you paid no fees. I left YB in '82 and about 10 years later I got a letter saying they'd just realised I was no longer staff and that with immediate effect I would have to pay charges. I walked in and closed the account, crossed the road to Barclays (who'd recently introduced free banking) and opened a new account

 

[Wedg1e]

paid 28 grand for my house 2 month later I got offered nearly double the prices went stupid and any house available was snapped up in a week everyone was getting gazumped

The house I had with my last ex-wife cost us £30,500 in 1995. When we split in 2001 we guesstimated it had gone up a bit (new bathroom, central heating etc.) - to about 40K - so we planned to sell it, pay off the mortgage and split whatever was left. Then she said she liked the place and wanted to stay, so she'd buy me out. So she gave me £5K (half the equity) and I bought this place for £43K.
Eighteen months later she sold 'our' house for £80K and downsized to a 2-bed end-terrace, pocketing £30K in the process.
Around the same time the end house in my street sold for £110K and still holds the street record for the highest price paid for what cost £6K new in 1976. Actually, the way these houses are put together, I'm not sure there's more than £6000 in materials at today's prices

 

[brightspark]

and now your a barclays banker just kidding don't take it personally

 

[Brad93]

Just open a Turkish barbers...

 

[brightspark]

Just open a Turkish barbers...

one has just opened in yarm hakans

 

[Wedg1e]

and now your a barclays banker just kidding don't take it personally

I've been insulted by better people than you, you know

 

[Wedg1e]

Just open a Turkish barbers...

Is that a kebarber...?

 

[Brad93]

Is that a kebarber...?

Kebab one side of the shop, hair cut the other

 

[Wedg1e]

Kebab one side of the shop, hair cut the other

Add a creche and you could drop off the kebabby while you get your hair done

 

[Cobbler]

Kebab one side of the shop, hair cut the other

something for the weekend sir ............ Diocalm, Imodium, toilet rolls?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I've been insulted by better people than you, you know

Is that a kebarber...?

Add a creche and you could drop off the kebabby while you get your hair done

You're on fire today.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Why do they never show Betty on new notes as she is now?