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by eesmith
22 days ago
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Oh, interesting! I read https://www.newsinenglish.no/2024/10/01/cash-cleared-for-a-c... and https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-strengthens-right-to-pay... . The point of budgeting via "cash stuffing" instead of the invisible shuffling of money through a bank card, is something that in retrospect is something similar to what I did when I was younger - the cash in my wallet is getting low, so I should hold back on expenditures. It lists some issues, like "The number of automated teller machines (called a minibank in Norwegian) has also declined, and most of them recently started charging a fee of NOK 10 (USD 1) to withdraw cash. If more people start using cash again, that may change." Can you perhaps tell me how things have changed in the last couple of years? |
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The proportion of payments that are electronic has been very high for many years, cheques were effectively abolished thirty years ago and we have very rapid (seconds) and easy to use ways of transferring money between private individuals knowing only their mobile phone number (Vipps).
Nothing much has changed in the last couple of years except for the new law requiring the acceptance of cash and the issuing of a leaflet on resilience by the DSB to every household in the country which along with saying you should keep several days worth of water and food also says keep enough cash for several days use.
And this year has been declared a year of Total Defence.
See https://www.dsb.no/en/risk-vulnerability-and-preparedness/