I've become one of those snobs that uses their card to pay for $3 worth of stuff.
I made 7 purchases today. The only one I used cash for was giving two quarters for the Daily News. The other six were put on the card and outside of a $10.15 purchase in the CVS down the street, the others were not more than $6. The smallest was around $2.30 for Dollar Menu items.
Why did I do it? For one, I'm totally milking Bank of America's Keep the Change program that will match 100% of "change" earned for the first three months. Chip in the amount it takes to round it up to the next dollar and get 100% return? I'll be in on that, given that I'm with next to nothing at this point. I'm generous (tipping, paying for other people, etc.), but I can also be that much of a money whore.
Second, I haven't gotten the bucketload of change that I usually get pulling my pants down by the end of the day. Since I don't use exact change when buying (for better or worse), this has saved me from mooning Lower Manhattan.
And third, it's no longer the 5-minute process that it was when I was annoyed by people at the supermarket using a credit card to pay for $8 of items. It's much faster these days. Faster than it'd probably take me to dig around and pay exact change.
So, I'll be one of those yuppie-fied card people. Which only makes me scared at my yuppification.