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How do people just go to the atm and keep pulling out cash? And spending it? I mean you have this money burning a hole in your pocket? And you think well, I have more.
Or I can spend it, and suddenly it'd be really easy to be in debt because my mortgage would be due, etc, etc and I had spent all my cash in my checking account.
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We use strictly cash unless we have to use a cc. I guess it is the glass half-full or glass half-empty theory. It depends on how you look at it. We feel the way you do about cash towards credit cards. If we use a cc, then how do you know if you are overspending or not. My cc has a huge limit. My checking account doesn't. I know I have to stop or there will be no more cash. I could ring up 10k on my cc and there would still be another 10k waiting for me to spend. We don't hit the ATM all the time, however. My wife takes out cash at the bank (teller, not ATM) at the beginning of the month that is budgeted for groceries, fun money, etc... Believe me, when it is all the cash you plan on taking out for a month, you are very judicious in how you spend it.
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