If you’re a Lloyds customer, and you still trudge to a branch to deposit cash, stop it. You’re wasting your life. You could be buying snacks while sorting your finances. The Paypoint cash deposit is a beautiful, ridiculous, low-tech revolution. It’s democracy in action: get your money into the system without wearing a suit. The next time you have a crumpled pile of notes, march into your local Spar or Co-op, slap the cash down, and tell the cashier “fill ‘er up.”
Then buy a scratch card. You’ve earned it. And if you win, you know where to deposit it—right back at the same counter, like a beautiful, dumb, financial ouroboros. Just don’t forget to smile at the cashier. They hold the keys to your fortune, and they also hold the keys to the pickled egg jar. That is power.