Use This Hack To Curb Your Expenses
It worked for me!
The pain of payment is real.
Lemme clarify — I don’t mean tapping your watch to buy your flat white. I mean the pain you’ll suffer when handing over cold hard cash for it. Exact same cost. Exact same product. Exact same shop. But the latter feels so much more painful than the former.
Or at least it does for me.
I’ve started doing something recently that I never ever did before: carrying, and paying for stuff, in cash.
Yeah it’s old school, and my regular readers know I’ve rambled on enough about all fiat cash being trash…but there’s something innately painful about paying in cash. So painful in fact, that it’s curbed my zeal for buying random crap I don’t need to impress people I don’t like.
It’s the holiday season and we are all going to gain calories and debt in inordinate amounts. But if there’s one thing I’d recommend you to try to help nullify the overall fiscal damage, it would be to pay for all your purchases in cash wherever possible.
Feel your pain centres light up as you rifle through the notes, count the individual coins, and then hand them over to a bewildered shopkeeper in exchange for something tragically insignificant.
This works even better — I mean it hurts even more — when you do it for the “intangibles”. Like a restaurant meal. Or a Swedish massage. Or heck, your Spotify subscription. Although I doubt if Spotify make it easy for you pay them in cash.
And that’s also my point: the banksters know this pain. And this is exactly why contactless — that numbing analgesic — exists.
How else could they make you happily spend your hard-earned cash?
