# Pee-ew in September (September mini rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** monthly-mini-rant\ **Created:** [September 1, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-ew-in-september-september-mini-rants/1022657 "2025-09-01T16:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 132
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-ew-in-september-september-mini-rants/1022657/132 "2025-09-10T19:32:52Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I mean, 3% on a $19 pizza amounts to couch-cushion change, but for larger purchases, it can make a difference. For the many of us who use CCs for substantially 100% of purchases, if this gets going, it’ll be the same as an extra 3% inflation. So 1-2 year’s worth. Because you know the retail prices aren’t going to go down, or even pause their ongoing increases, as that CC cost burden is transferred from the merchant to the customer. If you haven’t seen them, here are two related recent threads that discuss folks’ attitudes to paying cash or credit. ISTM the government would rather not grow the cash economy. But if everything I spend at retail now has a 3% surcharge attached, I and lots of other biggish spenders will return to doing everything in nice fun un-traceable untaxable cash. > [@How much cash do you typically carry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-do-you-typically-carry/1022656): > > I’m comfortable with about $200.00 on me. Below $100.00 and I get nervous. If its more than $300, I hide most of it in a pocket of my hip pouch. Hate using the cc for everything. I try hard NOT to uae a cc at mom 'n pop stores. I’m 63. > [@What do you do with loose change/coins?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-loose-change-coins/1022709): > > Inspired by the “How much cash do you carry” and “What can you buy for a quarter” threads. In years past, I always had SOME amount of loose change in my pockets. As I was pocketing my wallet, keys, etc., I’d scoop up maybe $1 of loose change and put it in my pocket. If I bought anything, I’d use the change to pay exact or reduce the change I received. I’d also have coins in the car for tolls pre IPass. Nowadays, just about the only thing I use change for is to mark my golf ball on the green… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-ew-in-september-september-mini-rants/1022657)._