Usually people do, but they like to be flash with the cash. Daft if you ask me. Why carry around 500 quid in 50's when you can just use your bank card in 99% of places.
Then again if waving around that much cash makes you happy then it's up to you.
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Usually people do, but they like to be flash with the cash. Daft if you ask me. Why carry around 500 quid in 50's when you can just use your bank card in 99% of places.
Then again if waving around that much cash makes you happy then it's up to you.
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I like the very old and green pound notes. They were about the size of a £20 is now. Also old fivers were like A4!
Many places still don't accept card.
Butchers, greengrocers, deli, a lot of small shops, pubs, clubs. Restaurants. Loads of places.
I barely go to large shops unless shopping for clothes etc.
Use my card where possible but it's always better to have cash on you, I always carry a few hundred.
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A few hundred in case the deli or butchers dont take your card..... what the heck are you buying???
My weekly shopping.
Usually ends up being about £100 on fresh food alone at least usually more.
It's like spending money for me, I go down the pub every night near enough, go out on weekends, go to quite a few cafes and restaurants.
I don't spend all of it but I do spend a lot of money in small places with no card machines.
Usually ends up being about £100 on fresh food alone at least usually more.
It's like spending money for me, I go down the pub every night near enough, go out on weekends, go to quite a few cafes and restaurants.
I don't spend all of it but I do spend a lot of money in small places with no card machines.
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Yeah they're not officially legal tender, but generally in practice are accepted as such in a sort of "gentleman's agreement". Either way the only £100 note I ever had I changed in HSBC without an issue.
Scottish notes are not even legal tender in Scotland, however, they are legal currency in the whole of the UK.
Pair of scissors?LOL, they don't shrink in the wash, and the colours don't run. They are virtually indestructible; you actually need some serious equipment to damage them.
Or failing that, a good old fashioned ciggie lighter...
i have clydesdale 50's, royal bank 100's (maybe bank of scotland)
completely worthless in england though
Because there scottish notes?
If so then thats rubbish, it is illegal for any shop not to accept them. Or so I have been told.
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I tried going in to Cafe Nero once to buy a coffee while waiting to for the estate agents to get back from lunch to put a deposit on a house. I had my money and 2 of my house mates money all in £50's in an envelope.. So must have been at least £4,000 in £50's, maybe more.
I forgot this, and it was the only money I had on me.. So when I tried to buy a coffee with one of them, they wern't having any of it, got really edgy, called their managers out who asked me to leave.
Scottish notes are not legal tender in England. iirc it works both ways and English money is treated the same way up here.
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True they aren't legal tender in Scotland... but how in that case can they be legal currency?
First - legal tender is not the same as legal currency. If you go into a shop and buy something legal tender is irrelevant.
Second - If you offer any money to buy something, irrespective of whether its English, Scottish, NI notes then the shop can say no thanks.
Third - if you go to shop and offer to pay with fake money you are braking the law as it is not lawful currency. If a shop keeper doesn't like legal currency money you have not
broken the law.
Fourth - If you go to restaurant and have a meal then go to pay for it then legal tender come into the equation. In England if you hand over a mankie English £10 then the restaurant has to take it as payment. They do not have to take Scottish notes. In Scotland the restaurant can reject any notes English or Scottish.
If you offer to pay with a reasonably clean note of any type and it is rejected and then walk out, you would not be doing anything illegal (i.e. not theft etc) but you would still be liable to pay the bill.
Second - If you offer any money to buy something, irrespective of whether its English, Scottish, NI notes then the shop can say no thanks.
Third - if you go to shop and offer to pay with fake money you are braking the law as it is not lawful currency. If a shop keeper doesn't like legal currency money you have not
broken the law.
Fourth - If you go to restaurant and have a meal then go to pay for it then legal tender come into the equation. In England if you hand over a mankie English £10 then the restaurant has to take it as payment. They do not have to take Scottish notes. In Scotland the restaurant can reject any notes English or Scottish.
If you offer to pay with a reasonably clean note of any type and it is rejected and then walk out, you would not be doing anything illegal (i.e. not theft etc) but you would still be liable to pay the bill.
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