# How much cash is in your wallet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2006, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196 "2006-12-07T10:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/21 "2006-12-07T14:59:42Z")
I haven’t been to the bank for a few days, so I have a total of…$9 in the wallet. As long as the ATM card still works, I’m golden. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/22 "2006-12-07T15:05:48Z")
Ummm… $214 Cdn including a couple of toonies. I didn’t count the other change. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/23 "2006-12-07T15:07:36Z")
I never carry cash on me. I have a little box in the glove compartment I call my “bridge money” which has a few dollars in coins for tolls and parking meters. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/24 "2006-12-07T15:21:47Z")
£0.03, which is pretty much all the money I have in the world at the moment. Hopefully, I’ll get paid tomorrow… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/25 "2006-12-07T15:29:20Z")
In my wallet: $5 Canadian, plus a prepaid Mastercard containg $22, plus my ATM card. The five-dollar bill is one of the new ones with the hologram stripe; now our money all matches again! In my change pouch: 1 loonie, 11 quarters, 6 dimes, 6 nickels, and 12 pennies. Plus my keys, and a Toronto subway token (one of the new ones that looks like a very small toonie). Tomorrow’s payday. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/26 "2006-12-07T15:38:09Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] What’s the deal with carrying so much cash? I got $25 in cash in my wallet which is more than normal. Unless I’m going to the bars - then I might take $100 in cash with me. I generally use my debit card on everything I buy. [/QUOTE] Well, I usually get a hundred out at the beginning of the week. This includes $43 for my weekly regional bus pass, plus lunch and food money. The fare booths at the subway take cash, not credit cards or debit cards, so I need cash to buy my pass there. I can use a debit card to buy my pass at the bus station in Mississauga, but that’s usually out of my way. The caf at work doesn’t take debit cards either. I’ve been trying to convince them to install a terminal for years, but no luck. Usually I use debit when buying things like intercity bus tickets and such. I’ve taken to [emailing](http://www.certapay.com/en/) money to people as well, rather than using cheques. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/27 "2006-12-07T15:46:29Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] What’s the deal with carrying so much cash? I got $25 in cash in my wallet which is more than normal. Unless I’m going to the bars - then I might take $100 in cash with me. I generally use my debit card on everything I buy. [/QUOTE] Well, the nearest ATM that doesn’t charge me for withdrawls is not very close to where I live and work, so when I do get to it, I take out $200 at a time. There are some things that you need to pay cash for – and I’m likely to need to take a couple of long taxi rides, costing about $50 each, before I get to a free ATM again. I don’t think the taxis round here take credit cards (though I could be wrong). ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/28 "2006-12-07T15:54:02Z")
some change…I used my last dollar at wendys ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/29 "2006-12-07T16:01:23Z")
Buck sixty ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/30 "2006-12-07T16:07:01Z")
40 bucks, maybe a five as well. That’s a lot for me! ---
**Author:** ![Marjorie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@Marjorie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marjorie)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/31 "2006-12-07T16:07:31Z")
$6.61, nearly all of which will be used to do laundry this afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/32 "2006-12-07T16:14:06Z")
None, I’m in my bathrobe. 😃 I don’t carry money in my wallet, but in my front pocket downstairs I have $80. My wallet is already too fat with cards. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/33 "2006-12-07T16:25:33Z")
About $60.00 in my wallet, plus another, oh, $20.00 in small bills/change in the coffee can. I keep a coffee can on top of the dining room cupboard, so when my daughter goes to the store, she can take money out for milk, or put change in if I send her with a larger bill. I don’t usually have more than $20.00 or so, but my mother’s helper gets paid today, and she likes cash. So yesterday at the market, I paid with my debit and got out enough cash to pay her with. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/34 "2006-12-07T17:18:40Z")
Don’t carry a wallet, but an even $50 in my money clip at the moment. I get $100 from the ATM every couple weeks, but don’t use cash for much. Everything $10 and up gets the MasterCard. Once I’m below $10 in cash I hit the ATM. ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/35 "2006-12-07T17:21:16Z")
15 dollah. One ten, five ones. In other words, enough for lunch today, breakfast tomorrow and lunch tomorrow. This is not counting the randomly changing but sizeable amount of change in my purse. Last time I went through it I had approximately 14 dollars in assorted small change. The cash value of the amount fluctuates between 10 and 20 bucks. The poundage between 3 and 5 pounds. It’s a rare moment when I have more than 60 in folding cash, but an equally rare moment when I have no folding cash. I tend to get it in lumps of 60 to use for refilling my metrocard (the machine at my subway stop has refused to take plastic for the last 6 months), meals, and springing for my husband and my entry fee to the weekly card tournament. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/36 "2006-12-07T17:43:01Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] None, I’m in my bathrobe. 😃 [/QUOTE] I’ll take your word for it. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/37 "2006-12-07T17:44:45Z")
Cash??? I have some random change, less than a dollar. All of my money is trapped in a little plastic ard that says Visa Check Card 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/38 "2006-12-07T17:59:36Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] USD 239 and AUD 85 in one (I just went to the ATM, and I’ve kept the Australian money from my last visit to AU, because I’m going there again shortly) USD 2.73 in coins in the other (including 2 Sacagewa dollars) [/QUOTE] Ah! The “Golden Sac”. A truly silly and useless coin. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/39 "2006-12-07T18:10:30Z")
Maybe $10 and some change. Lunch was almost six bucks today! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/40 "2006-12-07T18:35:57Z")
$187. It’s a bit higher than average right now - I’d say $80-$150 is normal, enough so that I can have a night out or a lunch or something without having to be the pain in the ass who doesn’t have cash and makes things more complicated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196.md?page=3)