Going Cashless: My Journey Into the Future<br />I paid for my morning coffee using the Starbucks app on my iPhone, picked up lunches<br />with a credit card and ordered-in the occasional dinner using Seamless.<br />And when I got an overpriced drink with some New York Times colleagues at the steakhouse below our newsroom, I had to<br />add my tip to the credit card bill, a decidedly less satisfying experience than leaving a few singles on the bar.<br />In a study last year by ING, the vast majority of respondents from the United States said they would never go completely cashless.<br />He said that while he didn’t see cash disappearing entirely anytime soon, he — no surprise — had mostly let it go<br />But what began with an empty wallet on New Year’s Day has evolved into something akin to a lifestyle change.<br />As I checked out of a hotel in Charleston, S. C., I didn’t have anything to offer the valet, which made me look — and feel — cheap.
