Cash not accepted at ISU athletic events
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I guess I was imagining being there with the kids and they go off to get a treat briefly. I hadn't considered from the angle of it being teens. In that case whatever I'd use would be linked to a debit account with access via phone. My guess is that if I'm sending them on their own, they are old enough to have a phone. If I'm sending them with another family, they can take cash to pay the other parents for whatever they get.
slight thread derail here, but the no phone thing isn't about a lack of trust or accountability. I feel pretty strongly that social media is really bad for pre-teens, particularly girls. Junior High can be so brutal, at least without a phone that **** doesn't follow them everywhere.
Anyway back to the topic at hand, I generally also pay with a card for everything. I don't know how much of an issue this has been anyway but I would think it would also be much safer for the employees not having a bunch of cash on hand.
While my 3 kids were in college I spent quite a long time cashless...
Seems like a good idea in a lot of places including ISU events. Some places in smaller towns don’t do plastic because they don’t want to pay some big bank for people who use plastic.
KidSilverhair
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This is very inconvenient for an old school fan who likes cash over card.
Is this where we say "try that in a small town"?
And that’s the nice thing about the Greenlight cards I linked earlier. No need for a phone. Kids get their own debit card that the parents can add money to really easily and we get notifications about every transaction. Obviously they’ll need to keep track of the debit card, but my kids 7 - 15 don’t seem to have an issue. Also works really nice for them getting dinners when traveling with sports teams and such. Don’t need to think ahead about making sure they have cash.
Totally agree on phones. Was just listening to a podcast that went into that a bit actually and they said if you can hold off til high school it's really beneficial. Or at least make a dumb AF phone before that with no social media, only calling/texting. Our oldest is 5 and knock on wood has had almost zero screen time the past month and prior to that he could watch some tv/our phone but we don't even own a tablet. We'll hold off on phones as long as possible.
Meh sucks to hear but outside of an occasional clone cone I pretty much avoid the concession stands.
Exactly. I paid to watch the game, not stand in a line and miss half of it.
If you pay with cash there is 0 chance of fraud !!
Zero chance of credit card fraud, and the risk is essentially zero with a credit card too since theyll cover it if it happens. Plenty of other ways to lose your money with cash, with zero recourse.
You can tell which parents in this thread have little kids. I was once an idealist on a phone too. Then they hit 5th grade and 90% of the other kids have one and it just becomes inevitable.
It sucks and in a perfect world it wouldn't be that way but here we are.
It sucks and in a perfect world it wouldn't be that way but here we are.
