I used to pay Liz with cash or check, depending on whether I had met my deductible (cash) or not (check). Pre-pandemic, I tried to avoid using my credit card at small businesses so they don't have to pay fees, but I have always felt fine doing it at bigger stores. Liz used to psychoanalyze the crap out of me bringing her exact change (to the dollar, nothing involving coins) every week, although she admitted that she preferred not having to pay the fees. But since COVID and being remote half the time and contactless everything, I've just switched to storing a credit card in her portal thingy. I kinda miss my cash ritual.

Amy is much more laid back and prefers running credit cards through her Square thingy, I think because then everything is deposited directly and creates its own paper trail without her having to do anything. I have to remind her to charge me half the time. I don't think she got into private practice to do administrative work.