Whenever I pay for something in cash, I'm trying to make it so that the change I get back requires the least notes or is simpler.
For example, if I owe $7.84, I might give $13.09 so that I get $5.25. I sometimes get confused looks.
Related to that, I don't like having more than 4 $1 bills. I feel like, at some point, I didn't give the cash I should have.
I picked that up after I spent some time in China, where it's a common enough thing that nobody thinks twice when you do it. But back in the US, it gets a lot of strange looks.
God Bless Australia. I love that country, and I really liked how tax is already included in all prices and payment is rounded to 5c since there are no 1c pieces. It makes payments so much simpler.
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Whenever I pay for something in cash, I'm trying to make it so that the change I get back requires the least notes or is simpler.
For example, if I owe $7.84, I might give $13.09 so that I get $5.25. I sometimes get confused looks. Related to that, I don't like having more than 4 $1 bills. I feel like, at some point, I didn't give the cash I should have.
I do this too! Only sometimes I confuse myself and end up looking like an idiot.
I picked that up after I spent some time in China, where it's a common enough thing that nobody thinks twice when you do it. But back in the US, it gets a lot of strange looks.
Not really connected to programming, but: I used to always grab 3 quarters, 2 dimes, a nickel and 4 pennies. That and the M&M thing...
Me too, only it's easier here because 1c and 2c coins have been removed from circulation so you round to the nearest 5c.
where is here?
Australia
God Bless Australia. I love that country, and I really liked how tax is already included in all prices and payment is rounded to 5c since there are no 1c pieces. It makes payments so much simpler.