Taking charge: Town gives up credit cards for 100 hours

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: August 11, 2001| Author: EILEEN ALT POWELL | Copyright information

Taking charge: Town gives up credit cards for 100 hours

By EILEEN ALT POWELL

Associated Press

Saturday, August 11, 2001

New York -- A southern Pennsylvania community named Cashtown lived up to its name last week.

More than 550 people from the town and surrounding area pledged to go 100 hours without using their credit cards. The back-to-cash experiment was part of a publicity event sponsored by a mortgage company that was also intended as a means of drawing a...

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