Personal Finance for Residents of Japan
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AC Japan made an ad just for you!Deep Blue wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:28 am One of the life’s little annoyances is getting stuck behind (typically little old ladies) counting out their coins 1 by 1 to take a minute or two to complete a transaction that should take seconds. I suspect a lot of them are doing the same as Bushiman
Maybe I’m an outlier but I’d say 98% of my shopping is cashless. There is only one place I regularly use cash, a local bakery that doesn’t have any other options. Occasionally a drinks vending machine out in the sticks will be cash only too.
Probably 60% is done with ID (on my phone), 25% with Visa touch (on my phone) and the rest Pasmo (again on my phone). Even the car park near my children’s school uses license plate recognition and lets me pay by credit card on the app.
That is pretty much a real world example!
And that was pretty damn fun! Hahaha! Sad, I know...nanaya wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 6:20 am
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Not that "deep", but I have my change out and have looked at it before the checker at the supermarket gets to the total. I then try to do something like that (keeping it quick). Sometimes they help a little, like handing me back a 10-yen coin before making change, or suggesting I add one more.Bushiman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:12 am
I always love freaking the cashier out when the bill totals a number like ¥836 and I hand over something like ¥1341... You see the cogs whirring, do they say something, am I mental. It's a foreigner, he probably doesn't understand... Then they just chuck the money in the till and it spits out 2 coins. Makes me chuckle anyway...
I do something like this if I know I'm going to a place that only takes cash. Except I usually know before I get to the till how much I have in coins! One 500, four 100s, one 50, four tens and a few smaller ones is ideal.captainspoke wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 7:29 am Not that "deep", but I have my change out and have looked at it before the checker at the supermarket gets to the total. I then try to do something like that (keeping it quick). Sometimes they help a little, like handing me back a 10-yen coin before making change, or suggesting I add one more.
¥836 is 9 coins minimum (13 if you don't have a 500). ¥1341 is 7 coins and you get 2 coins change. Net result is the sameBushiman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 7:22 am That is pretty much a real world example!
My leather wallet has a little pocket for change, so unless I upped my math game, I'd never fit the thing in my trousers! I see it as a good mental arithmetic challenge... Plus, like I said, it's fun to see cashiers spin out when I hand them what looks to be a random assortment of notes & coins.
northSaver wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:15 pm ¥836 is 9 coins minimum (13 if you don't have a 500). ¥1341 is 7 coins and you get 2 coins change. Net result is the same
