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⌈ Secret Post #6307 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #901.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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General comments:

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is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Meaning, do you account for any cash you have into your financial decisions?

I don't. If it isn't in my bank account or one of my cards, it doesn't count as real money to me. I'll spend it on things without worrying over it like I would with making a purchase a card. It helps that I rarely carry more than $100 on me.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't carry cash.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't carried more than a few pounds in cash since the pandemic. I never had much cash on me prior to that point as it was, but now I have like maybe £2 in my wallet? I got so used to using my card for everything during 2020 and I've stuck to it since.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

So-so. Mostly the only cash I get is my bonuses. I'll hoard it away to use on special treats or non-essentials I'm saving up for. So no it isn't "real" as in it doesn't count towards my overall savings/bank balance, but it is a separate balance in my mind I do track. But I spend it on fun things so it kind of falls into that "doesn't count" category.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

No, but I also don't carry any cash so that's probably why. If I have cash on me it'd have to be cash someone gave to me as a birthday gift or something and therefore not really factored into any routine finances

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

We never factor it into our household finances. My partner uses cash frequently and I never use it. I have a little table by our door that I keep $40 in a mix of bills in the drawer in case I need to tip for something. But once that cash is withdrawn from the ATM, it’s considered spent.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[tabaqui]

Opposite. Bank card or c.card seems much less 'real' and doesn't mean as much to spend. When I have cash, I want to just hoard it. Stick it in a jar and hide it. NEVER break the big bills, because then they get spent.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I should, but I don’t. I don’t carry that much cash either.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't carried cash in years. It's too easy to just spend it frivolously, whereas with anything I put on one of my cards, I have to see it on my account statement and so that really curbs my impulsive spending hard.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't carry cash for regular use. If I pull some out for whatever reason it's "gone" from the places I look to see my money (bank account, cc, ect) so it doesn't really exist. Or rather it's already gone. But also I hate spending cash (COINS SUCK!) so it's pretty much just for children selling lemonade or cookies.

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah same. I have a bit of cash in my wallet and it's already spent in my mind

Re: is cash "real" to you?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... it's real to me, but like... if I take out a set amount of cash that isn't for a specific purpose, then I can spend it on whatever without worrying about it, because the cash that's already out does not affect the bank balance. It's not something I do very often. If I'm going to a con then I'll take out cash for the vendor's hall and I won't worry about that because in taking it out I have accounted for it, but I will keep an eye on card purchases, because I need my bank balance to remain at a certain place.

[(Anonymous)]

Very

Weekend Plans

[kaijinscendre]

What is everyone doing?

I should have a pretty relaxing one. I do need to put fencing around my garden bed to keep my neighbor's cats out (hopefully). Otherwise, the only thing I am looking forward to is the Suddenly Shocking episode of the Nosleep Podcast. It is one of my favorites.

Re: Weekend Plans

[(Anonymous)]

I was planning on relaxing and finishing up my library book, but I just realized I left it at work and wont be able to get it until Monday. ;_;

Other than that, weeding the garden to prepare for seedlings! I have a few pepper plants and then a bunch of flowers that are ready to go.

Re: Weekend Plans

[(Anonymous)]

A little yard work if the weather allows because we’ve had a ton of storms and there are branches down everywhere. Other than that I’m finishing reading the final Elizabeth Cage book by Jodi Taylor and then I need to find my next read.

Re: Weekend Plans

[(Anonymous)]

There's a screening of the original Universal Dracula (1931) on Sunday not too far away from me at a theater I have free tickets for. Might go if I feel up to it. Closer by a local co-op is having a street fair earlier in the day on Sunday.

Saturday is going to be dreary and rainy so if I'm trying to be noble I'll do housecleaning or else I'll probably faff around and work on an electronics kit.

Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

... but you wouldn't mind if someone else made them for you! As always, including the fandom and full character names is a big help, and while I'm definitely not the world's greatest expert at secret design, I'll try my best. Please note that secrets with lots of text are sometimes difficult to accommodate and I'll give it a shot but might not be able to make secrets where the text is so lengthy that I can't fit it into the limited space. Also, this is not the appropriate place to hold political debates or arguments about what is and is not fandom - those can go in the General Comments section as their own thread, no need to make it into a secret.

I'll monitor this thread until tomorrow's secret post goes up, so feel free to leave your comments until then!

Yours truly,

a secret maker

P.S. Please don't worry if you've submitted a secret and it hasn't been posted yet. I usually post these threads before running out of the previous batch of secrets to get a head start on the next batch.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I like the Prince/Princess roles and Duels for the Rose Bride aspect of Revolutionary Girl Utena. I find it so sexy when Utena acts like a Prince and treats Anthy like a Princess. And Utena defending her position and her right to Anthy with the sword she pulled out of Anthy's breast is so goddamned satisfying. I wish there were an anime where that was the plot and it ended with a fairy tale happily ever after.

SB: That's completely antithetical to RGU. I didn't miss the point, I swear. Just... it's so hot. 😭

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

So. A while back, Thomas Kinkade Studios TM put out a bunch of Kinkade-style Disney artwork. It looks exactly the way you'd think it would, and is also comically expensive. A lot of fannish people were either righteously outraged or hardcore cringing over these Sam's Club specials. But honestly, I never found them any more cringey or awful than a typical fanart commission, and the Kinkade stuff has the advantage of being okay for me to make fun of. Secret because I'm pretty sure this makes me a terrible person.

(relevant image for the secret maker: https://thomaskinkade.com/products/mmshbr_puf)

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

N!S: I really hate racists.
S: One of my favorite songs is from the POV of a confederate soldier. I feel guilty as all fuck about it.
(it's "My Father's Gun" by Elton John if anybody is curious)

FS Hikers

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t know how many are into specialty clothing but I just bought a plus size Outdoor Research Echo sun hoodie for $21 (including shipping!) from backcountry.com (retail price is $80)

I poked around the site a little and they seemed to have a lot of amazing deals across all the categories, so thought I’d share. Especially if any of you are plus sized women like myself because they seem to have a surplus of them and those were the best deals I saw.

Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

cash is king

[(Anonymous)]

Cash is real. I spend it, I don't have it anymore. Contactless spending doesn't feel real, makes it hard to budget. I actively avoid anywhere that will not take physical cash and try to make cash purchases everywhere except occasional online orders. Cash gives choice and freedom. I don't want the rise of 'vouchers you can only spend if and when the government says so and we track exactly what you're buying'; the freezing of customer's bank accounts in Canada because they "supported a 'bad' cause" should have set off alarm bells for more people, and banks telling you how much 'carbon' you've used is sinister, suggesting carbon rationing.

And you might think you're immune but eventually it will be YOUR cause or your carbon usage that gets hammered and it will be too late to backpedal because you liked the convenience of a plastic card over using actual cash.