Honesty box

Short description: Unguarded cash container for customers to pay for a good or service

Unattended parsnips left for sale at the roadside, with a locked honesty box

An honesty box, also known as an honour box,[1] is a method of charging for a service such as admission to a facility or car parking, or for a product such as home-grown produce, baked goods and flowers, which relies upon each visitor paying at a box using the honor system.[2] For services or admission, tickets are not issued and such sites are usually unattended.

When used in camping sites and other park settings, they are sometimes referred to as an iron ranger as there is often an iron cash box instead of an actual park ranger.[3] Some stores also use them for selling newspapers to avoid lines at a cash register.[4]

Such boxes are typically used in rural areas where the low number of customers and other visitors, along with the low quantity or value of the products on offer, means that an attendant would not bring a positive return on investment.[4] Many are also domestically run operations where attendance is not feasible.

## Contents

* 1 Examples
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Examples

The Cake Fridge, an honesty box cake fridge in Bixter, Shetland, Scotland,[5] features in the TV adaptation of Anne Cleeves novels.[6]

## History

A flower and produce stand in St Lawrence, Jersey with an honesty box.

The use of honesty boxes saw a resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic, because purchases can be made without contact.[7][8][9]

## See also

* Take a penny, leave a penny

## References

1. ↑ Bateson, Melissa; Nettle, Daniel (27 June 2006). "Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting". Biology Letters 2 (3): 412–414. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0509. PMID 17148417.
2. ↑ Lockhart, Jessica Wynne (21 February 2021). "New Zealand road trips: An ode to the Kiwi culture of honesty boxes". The New Zealand Herald. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/new-zealand-road-trips-an-ode-to-the-kiwi-culture-of-honesty-boxes/FQBGFSMXPV5XANYCFOSM6P4HBI/.
3. ↑ Armstrong, Michael (15 October 2008). "Don Henry's prolific metal sculpture abounds in Homer 'Divas and Dolls'". Homer News. http://www.homernews.com/stories/101508/arts_14_001.shtml.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Richards, Jonathan (1 October 2007). "Honesty box culture". Times Online (London). https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7041447.stm.
5. ↑ "Honesty boxes in Shetland" (in en-gb). 2019-08-13. https://www.shetland.org/blog/honesty-boxes-in-shetland.
6. ↑ "'Shetland' fans are all going crazy for this one thing" (in en). 2021-11-04. https://www.whattowatch.com/news/shetland-fans-are-all-going-crazy-for-this-one-thing.
7. ↑ "Honesty boxes see a resurgence during Jersey's lockdown" (in en). 8 June 2020. https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2020-06-09/honesty-boxes-see-a-resurgence-during-island-lockdown.
8. ↑ "#FeedTheNation: Honesty box helps ice-cream business beat Covid". 12 September 2020. https://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/feedthenation-honesty-box-helps-ice-cream-business-beat-covid.
9. ↑ "A Dublin cafe is using an 'Honesty Box' to keep business running" (in en). 16 March 2020. https://www.fm104.ie/news/buzz/a-dublin-cafe-is-using-an-honesty-box-to-keep-business-running/.

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