While thinking of my grandmother this holiday, I remembered that she was the last person I saw that used $50 and $100 bills. She was a farmworkers’ wife of the Depression generation, so she trusted paper money far more than banks. She would always cash her full Social Security check when she got it, so she’d always have high currency bills to spend. She passed away in 1999 and I haven’t seen either bill in person since. Do you see them often?
I see them a lot in Vegas at the craps tables. Not much around here at home, though.
I usually see them at work, at about 8:01 a.m. when I have to use up all the extra change to break them.
At my last job, my bosses seemed to carry $100 bills almost exclusively. Whenever I had to get cash for something, they’d peel off a $100 bill from their money roll. I always suspected that they did it to show off, because they certainly didn’t *need *to carry cash around. Or maybe a couple of thousand dollars was their walking around money, and they didn’t think anything of tossing $100 bills around. They certainly never had anything smaller than a $20 on them. I always wondered what they did with their small bills and change. Surely they must have gotten change back on occasion?
I usually have a few $100 bills in my purse, just for emergency money. I keep a stash of $50s and 20s, too, in case I need them. If the baby needs formula, if we decide to go out to the steak house at the last minute, if we want to take off to the beach for the weekend... I have the cash to cover food and gas. I only use my credit cards for very specific purchases, and everything else is cash only. It's easier to keep track of spending, if I have a certain number of dollars in my possession. When I'm out of dollars, I'm out of .
I see them all the time. Just the other day an ordinary seeming woman in line ahead of me at Target paid for her stuff (totaling just under $40) with a C-note. I myself have handled a lot of Benjamins the past few months, too, as I typically pay laborers who work on my house (be they painters, landscapers, carpenters, plumbers, etc.) in cash.
When I used to work as a temp back in college, and didn’t have enough money to meet the minimum balance for a checking/savings account with ATM access without paying a fee (this was back in the late 1980s), I would hit one of those check cashing places after getting my weekly pittance, and there would be working class people getting their paychecks cashed into $100s. I’m guessing at least some of them wanted undocumented income because of questionable legal statuses of one kind or another, and others were in the same boat as me and simply didn’t have enough left over after paying their bills and rent and food costs to warrant opening a bank account.
And when you are walking out of a building with over $1000 in cash, you don’t want a fat envelope or wallet bulging with 20s and 10s… Ten 100-dollar bills would be ideal.
I got a 100 dollar bill for christmas.
I wait tables, and I see on average at least one $50 and one $100 bill a night. Usually they are from people aged 30-50, so in theory that have bank accounts and probably credit and/or debit cards, so I don’t know why they choose to use large bills.
Very rarely in my own currency. I’ve been offered $100 notes in Aussie dollars by currency trading banks here before when I’ve travelled across the ditch, but I tend to go for $50 notes rather than $100s. A $100 note is still an unusual beastie to me.
Just before Christmas. I had 30 of em, and 125 twenties. I would have preferred 55 hundreds, but that’s all they’d give me. Well, honestly, I would have preferred to have had the bank write a cashier’s check, but the guy I bought the bike from insisted on cash.
Every time I go to the bank. I usually get a couple in my “cash-back” from a deposit.
Pretty often, I see them at work a lot. But then a lot of the people who pay for their prescriptions from me are older.
Rarely from day to day. If I’m withdrawing cash over the counter at the bank the teller will sometimes offer them to me but I never take them. Like Ice Wolf, I stick to $50 notes as my highest denomination.
I rarely see them. I use my debit card for most purchases and ask the cashier for $20 or $40 cash back. I rarely carry more cash than that with me.
I see them almost every day.
Typically I carry AED 100 notes (UAE Dirhams) which are about $27, and often an AED 500 note ($136). I would guess I usually have AED 1000 on me to pay for taxis (I don’t own a car here), drinks/snacks etc. and to use when credit cards don’t work (shopping in the souq). Crime is not an issue here really, so carrying cash is not uncommon.
I also keep a collection of currencies for travel between Dubai/US/Europe so I always have a few hundred US equivalent in each of USD/EUR/CHF/CZK… and I also have other local currencies so I can get from the airport into town without having to change at a poor airport rate. Currently I have about $20 worth of: Hong Kong, Omani, Yemeni, and Qatari currencies.
Does that not drive you crazy? And they always say, “Oh, I just hate it when the bank gives me hundreds!”
SO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT THEM.
Personally, I see them every day, all day long. I count cash for a living, though.
Are there other bills?
At my workplace, a $1000 bill would be unusual (they do make those, right?).
I believe they were no longer printed since around the end of World War 2, but I’d guess they’re still legal tender. When I was a kid (mid-60’s) my dad once brought home a few large denomination bills, so his children could see them in person before they all disappeared. For the OP, I see’em whenever I want to. There’s been at least one around at any time in the last several years. (I pay cash for almost ALL of my local purchases.)
Kyth, the Canadian 1000-dollar bill was not updated to the new series, and banks are withdrawing them and returning therm to the Bank of Canada when they receive them. I’ve only ever seen them twice in my life, and both times, they were under glass at a dealer’s. I’ve never seen one ‘in the wild’.