Its still cash and you haven’t received anything for it. You just transfered it to someone else’s account. With that logic you could go to the bank and put it in a 30 day CD.
And this is the reason there’s fine print all over everything. You’d take the money to the bank and exchange it for a different currency denomination. Technically you don’t have the money you were given anymore.
Any exchange of money for goods or services is spending it. Not all exchanges are instant. Not all spending is exchanging it for goods and services.
Most definitions are something like:
“to give money as a payment for something” - Cambridge
“To use up or pay out” - Webster
“To pay out or away; to disburse or expend; to dispose of, or deprive oneself of, in this way” -Oxford
In most legal and financial contexts money willingly disposed of and specifically money willingly given to a 2nd party would be considered “spent”.
You can donate your money, decline a receipt, and have spent the money with no goods or services in exchange. You can spend the money today with the expectation of goods or services and not receive them immediately or, sometimes, ever. If you choose to throw 20 grand in the garbage that probably counts as spending it by some definitions.
Kinda difficult to get your roof fixed in one day.
But not difficult to pay for in a day. The contracter will happily take a $20,000 deposit.
Its still cash and you haven’t received anything for it. You just transfered it to someone else’s account. With that logic you could go to the bank and put it in a 30 day CD.
Yeah.
The challenge was to spend the 20 grand by the end of the day. Not to exchange it for equivalent goods in hand.
Am I missing something or is exchanging money for something else just spending the money?
And this is the reason there’s fine print all over everything. You’d take the money to the bank and exchange it for a different currency denomination. Technically you don’t have the money you were given anymore.
Any exchange of money for goods or services is spending it. Not all exchanges are instant. Not all spending is exchanging it for goods and services.
Most definitions are something like: “to give money as a payment for something” - Cambridge “To use up or pay out” - Webster “To pay out or away; to disburse or expend; to dispose of, or deprive oneself of, in this way” -Oxford
In most legal and financial contexts money willingly disposed of and specifically money willingly given to a 2nd party would be considered “spent”.
You can donate your money, decline a receipt, and have spent the money with no goods or services in exchange. You can spend the money today with the expectation of goods or services and not receive them immediately or, sometimes, ever. If you choose to throw 20 grand in the garbage that probably counts as spending it by some definitions.