That’s right. I have $186.00 in my wallet right now. I have more in the bank so if I run out, I can just hit the ATM and get some more. But for now, I’m just going to stick with the $186.00. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it yet. Maybe I’ll get a latte at Starbucks in the morning. Maybe I’ll put some on my Metrocard (but probably not since I usually use my credit card for that. Maybe I’ll use it to buy lunch tomorrow. Not sure where though. With $186.00, I can pretty much eat lunch anywhere in the city. Chipotle, Popeye’s, Oyster Bar in Grand Central. I can even eat at Heartland Brewery’s HB Burger. It’s fancier because it makes an acronymn out of the name of the parent bar/restaurant.
I can even give some of it to a homeless guy so he can have the $11.50 to get to wherever it is he is pretending to be going.
Metrocard means NYC right? If so then my question is: DO you, living in NYC, regardles of how much money may be in your wallet, ever actually choose Chipotle or Popeyes over the infinite cheaper and better choices in the city with the best food options on the planet?
Wow…what fabulous adventures you could take! I dream of the day that I could do that, maybe I’d grab a bowl of pho at Saigon Y2K (best name ever), or maybe I could buy a new dog brush, a pack of stamps, or even a new baking sheet!
Until I manage to hit the ATM, I’ll have to live vicariously through you. So - what’s the first five dollar bill going to be used for?
Are you aware that $186 is four months income in Sierra Leone? How do you sleep at night? Do you think your life is intrinsically worth more than a water buffalo farmer?
Wasn’t it that Brimstone TV series (canceled way prematurely) where the hero would always have 37 bucks and change to start each day (the amount he had on him when he died)?
Then, from the balcony of your opulent home, watch the fools spend it. Turn to your manservant(s) and say, “Colsteadworth, I will need another $186.00…”
For all of you who think the OP has ‘too much spare cash’, let me say this: every other Monday (and today was the Monday), I go to the bank and take out $500.00 in cash; that doesn’t pay the electric/gas, etc. but it does buy us groceries, pay for my daughter’s bowling league, pay for dinner/lunch out approx twice per week. If I want a bottle of bourbon or rum, it comes out of that $500.00. It pays for whatever gas I need for the two weeks.
I didn’t get my $500.00 today (Monday), but I will tomorrow, and it will last me the two weeks.
I live comfortably. If I want to take my sister out to lunch at Ruby Tuesday’s, and we both decide to have two drinks, it’s no biggie. But it’s not a fortune.
At the end of those two weeks, I’m often calculating how I can get through the next few days on the $50.00 or so I’ve got left in my wallet.
Yes, I have a debit card. In fact, I have two of them. I try not to use them unless I need to order something online or make hotel reservations, etc.
IOW, I try not to use them for everyday expenses. The cash pays for them.
I know this is a tongue in cheek thread but norinew lives almost the exact opposite life I do. I take $100 out once a month and still have most of it at the end of the month. I use credit cards for everything I buy and just pay the bill at the end of the month. It is so rare that I actually purchase anything with cash. Just interesting how people are so different. My ex wife does everything by check and I can’t imagine writing that many checks. The only check I do write is an alimony check to her…oh great…now I am in a bad mood
