So what’s the deal nowadays with getting cash? I don’t keep any in/under the mattress or coffee can or old cigar box and granted there’s not a lot of instances where I’m “peeling off those dollar bills,” but as long as there are places and business that take cash, I guess I’ll need to get some. I rarely write checks…I can’t even remember when or if I ever wrote a check to get cash. A few years ago, when I moved my money from a monopoly bank to a credit union, I was using the monopoly bank’s ATMs until they decided to spit-shine their image and provide the ATM “free” service only to their customers and begin charging everyone else. I haven’t used an ATM in quite some time. That’s fine, I’ve always been pretty much a 75% (of the time) cash-back at the point-of-sale person. But, what perplexes me the most is getting my $20 or $40 cash-back in freakin’ five dollar bills?!