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I’m back I feel well rested and I’m so ready for the English smiles and the good banter we have here ❤️Emma Lou Welsh

I hope everyone will read Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. It’s a two minute read. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations I'd never considered.
NO CASH means ABSOLUTELY NO CASH. Here is an idea. The next store you go in and order a drink or want to buy their product and they tell you “card only” …. Walk Away

Dave Ramsey repost:

HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:

* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting £20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every pound in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.

If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to deposit cash.

Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.

Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.

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Every barber needs to understand something very early on this path: what exactly this craft is. Because maybe you have never truly stopped to think about it the right way.

Barbering is not simply a service. You are not just cutting hair or shaving a beard. It is not a product either, and honestly, it is not even the “barber lifestyle” that so many people try to sell today. Barbering is a craft, and that changes everything.

A profession may live in diplomas, certificates, titles, or external recognition. But a craft is different. A craft lives in the hands. It lives in repetition, in care, in patience, and in the time invested until something simple begins to be done exceptionally well. You can study to become a barber, take courses, buy expensive tools, and even build a beautiful barbershop, but if you do not develop the craft, perhaps you have only learned a skill.

Because a craft carries weight. It carries responsibility. It demands standards.

Think about this for a moment. A man sits in your chair and closes his eyes. Have you ever truly stopped to think about what that means? In a world where people barely trust one another, someone decided to trust you. Your touch. Your attention. Your judgment. That should never feel ordinary. That should mean something.

And there is something even deeper than that. When you enter classic barbering, you are not starting something new. You are stepping into a tradition that has existed for centuries. But tradition is not a vintage chair, dark walls, black-and-white photographs, or an expensive straight razor hanging on the wall.

That is aesthetics.

Tradition is commitment. It is honoring a standard. It is understanding that men came before you, trying to do this the best way possible, preserving something greater than themselves. Perhaps this is exactly where many lost themselves. They became trapped in appearance, aesthetics, validation, ego, and the desire to look like a barber, but never reached the essence of what it truly means to be one.

So maybe every barber should ask himself one honest question: did I simply choose a profession, or did I accept the responsibility of carrying a craft? Because the answer to that question changes the way you work, the way you serve, and ultimately, the way you see yourself within this profession.

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