# How much money do you have on you right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451 "2001-09-08T23:34:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/21 "2001-09-09T01:48:50Z")
I think I have about $30 in my wallet. Not counting the change in my change purse. I use my ATM/debit card for just about everything, and have a Speedpass for gas. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/22 "2001-09-09T02:09:20Z")
$99.00 in bills, and $1.70 in change. I’ll go to the ATM when I have less than $30.00 in bills. And I rarely carry more than $120.00. The cash is just walking around money. I use the ATM card to buy just about everything. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/23 "2001-09-09T02:09:51Z")
Zero, Zip, Nada. Cash is too much of a pain in the backside. Before all of the anti-check people came into power, I used to write checks for everything but now it’s all plastic. Me and plastic, plastic and me. See? It’s so simple. No purses bursting with change. No wadded up bills in the washer or dryer. Just a huge bill at the end of the month! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WEW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@WEW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WEW)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/24 "2001-09-09T02:14:03Z")
$0.00 US ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/25 "2001-09-09T02:25:31Z")
$24.00 I usually start with $60.00 on Mondays and use that to buy lunch, etc. during the week. Since I’ve had lots of meetings, and a short week (Labor Day and all), I have “extra” left over. Aside from fast food and movies on weekends, I rarely use cash. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/26 "2001-09-09T02:42:59Z")
105.25 US dollars 2.00 Singapore dollars 40.00 Mexican pesos 2.00 Saudi riyals 250000 Turkish lira I often have more USD, actually just went to the ATM but then had dinner, gave Mrs. ShibbOleth 20 to fill up her car, and went to a movie with a friend. It goes out quicker than it seems to come in. ---
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/27 "2001-09-09T02:44:30Z")
$66.00 US I don’t ever “count” my change. I have a little dish with probably about $4.00 worth at any given time. When I go out of a morning I try to remember to grab 99¢ and spend it off during the day’s transactions. Some days I do pretty good, others I come home with extra. By and large, it’s pretty static. The bills, OTOH, are entirely dependent on when you catch me in my “cycle.” Whenever I go to the ATM, it’s always $200. I try to make that last a whole pay period (semi-monthly). So if this question were asked a couple more days from now, it might have been $180, or $240, or something. - Dave ---
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/28 "2001-09-09T02:46:02Z")
OK, I’m also curious about you folks walking around with all the different nationalities in your pocket. Where are you _living_? ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/29 "2001-09-09T02:46:38Z")
I have $40 in bills, about $1.50 in the coin compartment of my wallet, and a Baggie of change that I can’t find. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/30 "2001-09-09T03:00:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BigGiantHead \* > \*\*OK, I’m also curious about you folks walking around with all the different nationalities in your pocket. Where are you _living_? \*\* I live in Ohio. But I used to live and work in a whole bunch of different places. Ironically, I have no German Marks, Swiss Francs or Thai Baht in my wallet and those are the three countries where I actually lived. I do still have coins from those places but I don’t carry them around. The foreign currency I keep in my wallet out of habit in case I am ever in that country or find some other way to get rid of it. It’s not worth much, in fact the Turkish lira was worth less than 1 USD at the time, and since they have very high inflation its worth even less now. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/31 "2001-09-09T03:45:37Z")
nothing in my pockets but I do have probably about 50 cents in nickels and pennys that I use to make all my change in multiples of 25 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/32 "2001-09-09T04:08:28Z")
4.51, 4.25 of that in quarters. I get my laundry money, do it, and then carry the rest around for snacks and such. I usually have somewhere between $5 and $20, because I take out $20 from the ATM and then spend it until it’s gone, on lunch and such. Larger purchases go through the debit card. I’ve been much broker in my life, but having had a checking account, I simply had too little in the account to hit the ATM. I’d usually have $1-2 in my pocket and be broke and hungry until payday. (hungry meaning I had to bring lunch to work or wait until I got home to eat.) I took out $200 on Friday, but then went to the post office for a money order, gave some to the roomie to trot around and pay bills with, and bought two cartons of cigarettes ($35 total for two cartons. Man, am I good.) Having $50 or $100 really isn’t important to me, but that last $5…now that’s important. Corr ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/33 "2001-09-09T04:08:42Z")
$7.00 ---
**Author:** ![Mythos45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mythos45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mythos45)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/34 "2001-09-09T04:13:23Z")
$37 cash money (a twenty, a ten, a five, and 2 ones, as if you care). ---
**Author:** ![TheNewbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@TheNewbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNewbie)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/35 "2001-09-09T04:21:19Z")
$64.18 US And I went out tonight…geeze thats a lot for me! ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/36 "2001-09-09T04:32:04Z")
As of this moment I have $2.37 in my pocket. In my wallet I have 0.00, and an ATM card. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/37 "2001-09-09T04:32:14Z")
$140. I’m the opposite of many of the people here, I pay cash for just about everything, because I can see it disappearing out of my wallet and, therefore, know how much I’m spending. My plastic, on the other hand, doesn’t run out, or doesn’t provide as good of feedback as to WHEN it’s running out. So I spent more before I started carrying a bunch of cash. -LV ---
**Author:** ![Turlough](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@Turlough](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turlough)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/38 "2001-09-09T11:21:33Z")
$1900 I’m buying a computer in the morning ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/39 "2001-09-09T11:29:41Z")
$5.00 US. I usually keep about $25.00 on me. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451/40 "2001-09-09T11:57:07Z")
I’ve got about $10 in my purse - and that will last quite a while. I do the debit card thing most of the time when I shop, so I rarely have much cash. I did take some cash out the other day because we took our secretary to lunch for her last day, and I didn’t want to do plastic in the restaurant in a big group. It’s embarrassing to have to hit up my kid for cash sometimes… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-have-on-you-right-now/80451.md?page=3)