Smart SpendingSmart Spending  6 reasons why I love cash
Sticking with bills can help keep you on track.
By Donna_Freedman Oct 6, 2009 6:47PM  Last month my colleague
Karen Datko linked to a post from personal finance blogger
"Broke Grad Student." The short essay, "6 reasons why I hate
cash," seemed at least partly tongue in cheek, especially since
a couple of days later he followed up with reasons to love
money. Yet the underlying sentiment -- plastic rules, cash
stinks -- seemed genuine.  Broke Grad Student wrote his piece
after making an ATM run to buy food at his workplace cafe.
"Having to make the trip to get the cash (annoyed) me," he
wrote. Good grief -- hasn't this man ever thought about getting
cash back with a purchase from the supermarket or drugstore? Or,
for that matter, about packing his own lunch  The blogger
further groused that cash is "easy to lose." Just about
everybody misplaces moola, he claimed, and afterward "you can't
call an 800 number and have them cancel your $20 bills."  Yeah,
and