{"id":332241,"date":"2025-12-05T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332241\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:25:12","slug":"do-you-still-use-cash-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332241\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you still use cash? Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Even as use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frbservices.org\/binaries\/content\/assets\/crsocms\/news\/research\/2025-diary-of-consumer-payment-choice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">paper cash continues to decline in the US<\/a>, some Americans continue to use their Washingtons, Lincolns, and Jacksons for purchases. It has even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/09\/opinion\/cash-stuffing-personal-finance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/09\/opinion\/cash-stuffing-personal-finance.html\">taken off as a budgeting strategy<\/a>, with some seeing cash as a better way to track and control spending than debit or credit cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Do you still regularly use cash, either broadly, or for specific kinds of purchases? Do you feel like doing so has helped you curb your spending? We want to hear from you. Fill out the survey below and a reporter may be in touch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagline | font_primary inline_block  margin_top_32\">Dana Gerber can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/05\/business\/cash-use-budgeting-spending-affordability\/mailto:dana.gerber@globe.com\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dana.gerber@globe.com<\/a>. Follow her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/danagerber6\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@danagerber6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as use of paper cash continues to decline in the US, some Americans continue to use their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9073,28,9074,937,926,9076,79079,2066,147,530,79080,79081],"class_list":["post-332241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-bills","tag-business","tag-cash","tag-currency","tag-dollar","tag-dollars","tag-fifty-dollar","tag-money","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-twenty-dollar","tag-u-s-currency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}