I operate on an almost 100% cash basis. I use Amazon gift cards for Amazon (one of two big corporations I regularly do direct business with) and I have a prepai

I operate on an almost 100% cash basis. I use Amazon gift cards for Amazon (one of two big corporations I regularly do direct business with) and I have a prepaid debit card for online orders for the odd thing I have to get elsewhere. Both are reloaded using cash as needed. I switched to this system relatively recently, I had a bank account but the nearest branch was pretty far, and I used it primarily for online orders and worked with cash for local stuff, it became a pain to put cash in it when it ran low. I no longer have a bank account. Life is pretty easy. I've noticed something interesting though. Rural areas (like where I live) almost never have cashless storefronts, in fact often they have cash only storefronts. The merchants almost always have some indicator of conservative bent. Whereas in cities, you'll see cashless places all over, and it's often some business owned or staffed by people with an obvious left of center ideology, which IMO are the last people I'd expect to want a big finance company to get a piece of every person to person transaction they do.