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How much cash do you keep at home?

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  • I might have some spare change lying around

  • $5-10

  • $11-20

  • $20-50

  • $50-100

  • $100-200

  • $200-500

  • $500-1k

  • $1k+

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Meghan54 said:
You'd be surprised how much someone will drop their asking price when their eyes are full of $100 bills, just sitting there right in front of them. Doesn't always work, but it's how we got our "new" boat for under $4K when the asking price was $6500.
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You should be ashamed. Taking advantage of a poor S. Carolinian by flashing your $$.


j/k....$$ talks, B.S. walks.

How much was in the house again? :sneaky:



I'm in a cash business so I could put my hands on a few thousand if the banks were closed.
 
probaly have a 200-500, you never know when your going to need cash. What if the machines are down, then you can't get shit at the stores. Always have cash incase shit happens.
 
~$30 in quarters (for laundry) plus whatever is in the change jar. I usually keep a twenty in my wallet for random stuff, but 90% of my transactions these days are done with cards.
 
I keep about $50 hidden on my bookcase... I could see an emergency wherein my wallet gets stolen and I have to take a cab home (and wouldn't have access to an ATM/credit card, since my wallet was just stolen)
 
velillen said:
Guess im the odd ball here. I keep a healthy amount as emergency money. Nothing super crazy but enough to be able to pay for a decent sized unexpected event. Bought a few things off craigslist or other forums and met with cash. So much easier than having to run to the bank to make a withdrawal when it usually ends up being after the banks are closed.

But i have a good safe to store it in. Without the safe id keep much less at home
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not sure where you live, but around here we have these things called ATM's where you can get money out without the need for a bank to be open.

srsly, they are amazing! there is usually one on every corner too, so they are easy to find!
 
I keep around $2k in my house for emergency funds. Never know when you're a victim of IDtheft. Last time I had to get all my bank accounts changed and my ATM cards redone. For a good while there all I had was cash on hand.
 
purbeast0 said:
not sure where you live, but around here we have these things called ATM's where you can get money out without the need for a bank to be open.

srsly, they are amazing! there is usually one on every corner too, so they are easy to find!
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Where at are you in the DMV ?

I am D[M]V
 
never keep much cash around and never need to either. i had my debit card defrauded once, took a couple days to sort out, but I also did not require much money during that time either. Always have various sources of money and you will be fine. Keep multiple debit/credit cards issued from different places and don't always keep all of them in the same place, and you're fine.
 
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It's in the right middle drawer of my desk, with my kids' birth certificates. I figure that no self-respecting burglar will bother robbing me for just a bunch of 20's.
 
I have a couple hundred K in small bills in the panic room along with my alternate passports and open travel plane tickets.
 
Change and whatever happens to be in my walled for whatever reason. I can't buy anything at home, so there's no reason to have money there.
 
I have ~$1,500 in small bills hidden at home in the case of natural disaster that makes ATM's unusable.
 
Bout a buck fitty.

Naw, I have probably anywhere between $5 and ~$60 in my wallet at all times, plus my change jar which right now has probably about $100 or so in it.
 
I have around $0 in bills and maybe $5 worth of coins at the house usually.
Maybe a couple times per week I leave the fiance $50 or $100 for running errands/shopping... but, the money doesn't last very long, lol.
 
velillen said:
Guess im the odd ball here. I keep a healthy amount as emergency money. Nothing super crazy but enough to be able to pay for a decent sized unexpected event. Bought a few things off craigslist or other forums and met with cash. So much easier than having to run to the bank to make a withdrawal when it usually ends up being after the banks are closed.

But i have a good safe to store it in. Without the safe id keep much less at home
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This.
My safe has guns, cash and silver.
 
purbeast0 said:
not sure where you live, but around here we have these things called ATM's where you can get money out without the need for a bank to be open.

srsly, they are amazing! there is usually one on every corner too, so they are easy to find!
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Sure are, until a storm knocks out power and everything is cash only because nothing electric works.

I know, doesn't happen every day. True. But the habit of keeping a small sum of cash around certainly helps out sometimes.

And you do know you're making the same assumption, with the comment of "one on every corner", that everyone lives in a good sized city. Hint: they don't.
 
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