Re: T shirt Price Info
From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 2:10 |
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:
> I like cash - I bought my electric guitar and amp with cash, and that
> was like $1800 altogether.
>
> > I use a debit card myself. It feels much safer...and I'm already enough
> > in debt to the federal government. I *hate* being in debt. I see no
> > reason to put myself further in debt just yet.
>
> I have a debit card, but it's on it's own account which only has $6 on
> it - I pay for everything with cash, but then again I don't make too
> many purchases where cash isn't a viable option.
>
I like the debit card because I'm used to ordering things through the
mail. Especially books, when I was in Korea and the only other way to
get them was to *beg* friends who could afford to go Stateside to look
for certain books, which they'd almost never come across....
> > But yes--I can see how people wouldn't know what a money order is, since
> > I barely do myself.
>
> I barely know what they are either - I would've thought that people
> outside of N. America would know what they are at least, but evidently
> they don't even *exist* elsewhere.
Sure don't exist in South Korea. I wonder when the U.S. came up with them?
YHL