# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/41 "2006-12-07T18:45:26Z")
$63.00 I don’t usually carry that much around, but my boyfriend paid back a loan and I haven’t spent it yet, or put it in the bank. I’d just have to take it out again sooner or later. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/42 "2006-12-07T18:47:16Z")
$10, plus loose change. I usually try to have at least $20 in my wallet, but it’s finals week so I haven’t had much need for cash. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/43 "2006-12-07T19:04:10Z")
None, I don’t carry my cash in my wallet. Everything in my wallet can be replaced if it gets lost/stolen, my cash can’t so the cash goes in my pocket. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/44 "2006-12-07T19:51:29Z")
Two 20s and a bunch of ones. I use the debit card for a lot of stuff, but not small (under $5 or $10) purchases, or movie tickets, or train tickets. I also like to have cash for when having a meal out with friends – it’s so much easier to be able to throw in money for my share. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/45 "2006-12-07T19:52:50Z")
No cash, just my debit card. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/46 "2006-12-07T19:54:02Z")
$5. That is all that’s left since I came back from Las Vegas over Thanksgiving. But I haven’t used my debit card in almost two weeks! ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/47 "2006-12-07T19:55:14Z")
About $30 in cash, and easily another $10 in coins I haven’t dumped out yet. ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/48 "2006-12-07T20:05:16Z")
11 simoleans ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/49 "2006-12-07T20:45:00Z")
None. I can’t carry cash or I’ll spend it all on food. It’s bad enough that I had to bring my debit card today, because of having to buy a prescription; that left me open to charging McDonald’s and other “bad” food. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/50 "2006-12-07T20:46:41Z")
Oh, and I don’t really have a wallet. Just a holder for my license and cards, with a keyring attached. No purse either. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/51 "2006-12-07T20:46:42Z")
Nothing at all. I stopped to buy a new winter coat on impulse (long story). It was cash only, $19.99. I had a twenty and a bit of change which I thought would cover it once the tax was added on - and if not, that the salesperson would have some sort of flexibility (which they usually do in cash-only places, I’ve often come up short and had them say “No problem.”) I was about 67 cents short (or something), the salesguy actually rooted through his pockets for enough change to cover me … So no cash in my wallet, but at least now I’m warm! ---
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/52 "2006-12-07T20:58:30Z")
Where on earth can you get a _new_ winter coat for only $19.99? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/53 "2006-12-07T21:04:29Z")
$150 in notes $4.65 in coins ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/54 "2006-12-07T21:10:14Z")
No wallet either, I just have some cards and ID in a money clip and the actual cash itself is always folded but loose in the pocket. $51 cash right now and about $1.20 in change. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/55 "2006-12-08T04:54:49Z")
Weird this thread should come up. I’ve got nothing - I’ve just spent my last 20c in the M&M dispenser. Stupid me. Went to a gig in the city last night, about 2 hrs away on the train (it was [The Lucksmiths](http://www.thelucksmiths.com.au/), BTW, who were as awesome as usual) and didn’t want to have to carry a bag. So my gentlemanly friend offered to carry my credit card and my licence for me. And I forgot to get them back from him. Even after we reminded each other at the breakfast table not to forget. Luckily I’d bought a return train ticket. No money, and no access to money. I’m treating it as a sociological excercise. I have literally no plans this weekend, so I should be fine till it arrives in the post on Monday. ---
**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 8, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/56 "2006-12-08T10:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=araminty] No money, and no access to money. I’m treating it as a sociological excercise. I have literally no plans this weekend, so I should be fine till it arrives in the post on Monday. [/QUOTE] Ugh. The last time I did something like that, it was the night before payday. I was downtown and had spent my last change on a snack, when I went to get on the subway to go home, and realised I didn’t have a subway fare (and no token or ticket either). All I had was my Mississauga bus pass (I lived and worked in the suburban city of Mississauga at the time.) So I walked. It took me four and a half hours to walk from Queens Quay and Bay (the centre of the waterfront) to Islington (where I could get my Mississauga bus and go the rest of the way home). Man, did my feet hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/57 "2006-12-08T12:52:15Z")
A dollar bill and less than 50 cents in change, mostly pennies. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/58 "2006-12-08T12:54:10Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Where on earth can you get a _new_ winter coat for only $19.99? [/QUOTE] Steve and Barry’s, down here. Don’t ya’ll have them Up There? Their poofy coats are about that, even less for the kids’. ---
**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 8, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/59 "2006-12-08T14:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=Nawth Chucka] Steve and Barry’s, down here. Don’t ya’ll have them Up There? Their poofy coats are about that, even less for the kids’. [/QUOTE] And last time I checked, the Hudson’s Bay Company was charging around $400 for a new parka. Wait… how do you define ‘winter coat’? I define it as one of [these](http://www.sears.ca/gp/product/B000K6D2JA/sr=1-0/qid=1165586342/ref=sr_1_0/103-9012193-1450221?ie=UTF8&searsBrand=core&mqnodeid=16337181). ---
**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 8, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196/60 "2006-12-08T14:03:53Z")
[QUOTE=araminty] No money, and no access to money. I’m treating it as a sociological excercise. I have literally no plans this weekend, so I should be fine till it arrives in the post on Monday. [/QUOTE] He’s _mailing_ your wallet back to you? When this could be the perfect excuse for another meeting? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-cash-is-in-your-wallet/383196.md?page=4)