We are all guilty of using plastic money. Yep, even me, but I do my best to throw a curve ball at Big Brother. I use my credit card pretty much for gas and I always buy it at a station very close to home. Big brother only knows how much gas I buy but he doesn't know which vehicle I put it in because I use High Test in both vehicles. Some folks fill up at home and then go someplace 50 or 100 miles away and then fill up again before coming home. BAD IDEA. Now Big Brother knows where you went, when you left to come home, how much gas you bought, what you paid for it, where you bought it, what the time and date was, etc. Why not just stop using my plastic money all together? If you don't use it, the bank will cancel it for lack of use. Now, I actually do use it once in a while for other things. If I buy something from Amazon or stay in a Motel, you pretty much have to use a credit card. Some Motels won't take cash. I carry cash and use the old rule of Never keep any more money in your pocket than you can afford to lose. Never keep any more money in the Bank than you can afford to lose. Never keep any more money at home than you can afford to lose. As a side story...... I have a dear friend who works hard but makes very little money. They have enough to either feed their family or pay their utility bills. Hmmmm...... If I help them out by writing a check, then there is a record, and they have to pay income taxes on it. If I give them a bit of cash, so they can eat, then Big Brother doesn't know squat. We can't live without leaving a footprint but the smaller the footprint, the better. Big Brother loves Credit and Debit Cards, but he hates Cash.
