Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 29, 2021

I keep my $20s and a $50 in the wallet in my front pocket… and I keep the “small stuff” in my hip pocket wallet. I’ve trained myself to think twice about spending a $20… but don’t worry about spending a buck or three from the other wallet. Keeps my spending slightly under control. And I don’t have to sort past both the twenties when I’m looking for enough to buy a package of cookies.

So… Mallet is Canadian?

What was she going to say?

“When people still used . . . " what?

Or still used books. I’ve heard library attendance or online use improved over the last year as restrictions were lifted slightly. I know I have read a good deal more than in past years, but then at my age, lots of my summer physical activities were shut down by the unrelenting heat. Couldn’t adapt to it as I did only a decade ago. Now it’s fallI I can get outdoor things done before winter slows me down again.

Yes we still use dollar bills. The lottery machine doesn’t take plastic.

Reference to more e-book downloads than borrowed books. My library hasn’t been open for 18 months.

So he didn’t finish the books? That’s the only reason a bookmark would still be there when the book is returned to the library.

She’s right, though. I’ve been to a library more recently than I’ve paid for goods or services with paper money. I have some in my wallet just in case, but it’s the same three bills that have been there since 2018. And I’m beginning to wonder, in case of what?

He used to be “ours,” said one West Michigander

I did find a credit card in a library book once. It was expired, but it’s still not something I’d use as a boomark.

I think I took it back to the library and said, “If anyone is looking for this…”

cash is king

I wouldn’t recommend doing this with your credit cards.

I prefer to pay cash, but I sometimes use plastic. So far I’ve resisted the idea of paying for anything with my phone.

That being said, I think it’s ridiculous that we still issue paper money worth $1. Dollar coins make so much more sense (for the same amount of cents). Not many machines take them, but of course that’s a chicken/egg deal; if people used dollar coins, machines would be made to take them.

I think I read once that they found an uncashed paycheck In one of Einstein’s books in his home library after his death..

Ssssh!

Old business cards make great bookmarks and you get a fresh box full every time you change jobs.

One of my friends in middle school used money as bookmarks. I found a five or ten dollar bill in a book that I’d checked out one time, saw that she was the last one to check it out, and gave the money back to her. I wonder how many she left behind in other books and didn’t get back.

Ostentatious is using $20 or $50 or even $100 for book marks not single dollar bills.