# Man, people are weird about CASH **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591 "2025-01-05T20:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/141 "2025-01-06T18:58:13Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > > [@Gordon\_G](#): > > > > The only time I recall the term is in the controversy where Congresswoman Ilhan Omar accused legislators of supporting Israel because “It’s all about the \*Benjamins baby", a line from a Puff Daddy song. > > It’s just an incredibly dated and corny phrase. I picture someone using that phrase carrying around a tacky money clip trying to impress the waitress at Denny’s. I picture a group of young musicians or dancers oohing and aahing over a suitcase full of banknotes. BTW, many decades ago I was friends with a band of wholesale marijuana dealers. They told me that trades were made with “Grovers” rather than “Benjamins.” (I’ve never even seen a Grover, though I possessed a McKinley once.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/142 "2025-01-06T19:07:07Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > It’s just an incredibly dated and corny phrase. I picture someone using that phrase carrying around a tacky money clip trying to impress the waitress at Denny’s. An article from two days ago: > **[Lions-Vikings huge ‘SNF’ showdown is also a battle of the Benjamins for Detroit](https://www.mlive.com/sports/2025/01/lions-vikings-huge-snf-showdown-is-also-a-battle-of-the-benjamins-for-detroit.html)** > > This is being called one of, if not the biggest Lions game ever played at Ford Field. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/143 "2025-01-06T19:23:58Z")
> [@Gordon\_G](#): > > (I’ve never even seen a Grover, though I possessed a McKinley once.) I once saw a McKinley. I was working front desk in a Holiday Inn and a businessman spending several weeks paid with one. It cause problems when I closed out the register because I couldn’t leave the usual amount of money the register required. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/144 "2025-01-06T19:44:33Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Aren’t all dollar bills adulterated with cocaine? I heard it was $100 dollar bills. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’ve only ever been to casinos a handful of times but I think the slot machines may have been more fun when they paid out a pile of coins. I have consulted for two casinos, but oddly I don’t gamble- which they liked. (I used to play poker, but for quarter ante, dollar limit). But yeah, that sound is great. I was stuck in vegas for a few days during a convention, a decade+ ago, and found that the wedges & ledges machines- rare then, gone now- became a game of skill once you saw how precipitous the ledges were. I could win , but only a handful of quarters, so nothing big time- until one quarter went through the tiny target hole, and it paid out 1000-1- which is only $250, but in quarters that sounds like BIG MONEY. I had a small crowd and everything. I then cashed them in and quit. > [@Spiderman](#): > > I don’t know because I’ve never used them but you seem to be saying Walmart doesn’t have their cashcard anymore; No, they have them, and sometimes the cost is tiny. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > This was during the pandemic lockdown, mask mandates, non-essential business closures … yeah, all that nonsense. Yeah, my wife just refused the licked cash during that period- but she is not allowed to anymore. People dont even think while they do it. > [@silenus](#): > > A lot of gamblers regard fifties as bad luck. And two dollar bills. > [@Baker](#): > > In one of Heinlein’s juveniles the father of the young protagonist tried to make a point by paying his taxes in cash. You certainly can in the USA, but not at all locations. One Revenue Officer invited me in to watch and help- some guy who thought he was being smart paid off a some $5000 tax bill in ones. He thought that was gonna be a big yuck until they explained he was gonna have to sit there and watch until they counted the bills and it came out to the right amount _twice in a row_. It took about three hours. he even got a parking ticket for his trouble. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/145 "2025-01-06T19:57:15Z")
I personally saw somebody pay $3000 in cash for some antiques, I couldn’t help wondering who carries that kind of money. Nobody has ever said anything about me paying cash for something. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/146 "2025-01-06T21:20:44Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > I associate carrying large amounts of cash around with having “cash intensive” businesses I smoke weed. While I do like the convenience of using my card, currently I have 237 dollars in my wallet. We are preppers. We have been through times of no internet county wide (once for three days). We know that when the interwebs are down, nobody can take plastic so if you want beer, you better have cash. There is a thousand dollars of just-in-case money in the gun safe. I give panhandlers cash. I don’t care that they are going to spend it on drugs or booze, that’s what I would do with it if I didn’t give it away. Hubs likes to tip cash at restaurants and we both enjoy buying food from local growers. My friend with chickens doesn’t take venmo, she wants her three bucks a dozen in cash. We still use a lot of cash, but we do live in the country so not as many folks take plastic. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/147 "2025-01-06T23:13:42Z")
Ime, it depends on the gift card. A (name of store I work for) can be purchased with credit/ debit. I think, though I’ve never actually sold one, this also applies to for instance Chili’s gift card. However, a “Visa gift card” or any other gift card that functions like a debit card must be paid for with cash. The same applied to money orders when we still sold them. It’s otherwise considered money laundering. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/148 "2025-01-06T23:19:08Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > My friend with chickens doesn’t take venmo, she wants her three bucks a dozen in cash. She needs to up her egg prices! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/149 "2025-01-06T23:50:11Z")
> [@motu](#): > > In the 90’s, I knew a guy that when depositing his paycheck, he would get $100 cash in $2 bills. Was his first name Arnold? Cause if so, he did that until he retired and then would go to the bank monthly and get 400 in $2 bills. Sadly, he passed away a couple of years ago. His wife buried him with 50 $2 bills in his pocket. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/150 "2025-01-07T00:55:15Z")
Woooooaaaahhĥ! This thread really blew the \* bleep \* up! KABLOOOOOOOOOEEEY! I will respond to some posts. But I’m going to gamble some more first! ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/151 "2025-01-07T05:28:13Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A lot of gamblers regard fifties as bad luck. Try dropping one on a BJ table in Vegas and watch the reaction from everybody. Bad juju! I usually bring half my cash to Vegas in $50 bills. I like to freak out gamblers and they don’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/152 "2025-01-07T06:29:43Z")
I believe this is the oddest, most involved stealth brag I’ve encountered in recent memory. I’ve got nothing against the OP, but “Benjamins”? “_Chile_”? I’ve never encountered people being weird about cash, and not sure what your “fat wallet” has to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/153 "2025-01-07T23:48:27Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > I’ve never heard anything called TITO - and it doesn’t make any sense. The TITO is a common way of abbreviating ticket in, ticket out, but no one says,’TITO’ like they’re pronouncing the former dictator of Yugoslavia’s last name. ‘Do you prefer TITO or coin droppers?’ could be a thread title on a slot machine related message board. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/154 "2025-01-07T23:55:49Z")
Well, this degenerate thinks of vodka when Tito’s is mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/155 "2025-01-08T00:06:19Z")
I wasn’t clear enough . I never heard anything called either TITO or ticket in ticket out. And I’m certainly not going to say it doesn’t appear on slot machine related message boards - but from what you say, it sounds like TITO and coin droppers are two different types of slot machine ( or at least two different types of caino games, if coin dropper means the same thing as coin pusher) But this line in the OP > When I inserted my ticket into the TITO kiosk, that SOB spat out $759 worth of 1s/5s/20s appears to be calling the ticket redemption machine the TITO kiosk when it’s actually Ticket In, Cash Out. I certainly can’t say that people in the business don’t use that expression or that degenerate gamblers 🙂 don’t - but this isn’t a slot machine message board and the OP shouldn’t expect people to understand that sort of abbreviation. Especially since you and the OP seem to be using it differently ( I think) ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/156 "2025-01-08T00:09:23Z")
TITO refers to slot machines. The OP conflates the ATM/Ticket Redemption machine with the slot term. The slot machine accepts payout tickets from other machines, which it records just like cash. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/157 "2025-01-10T01:29:16Z")
Cash. 100 percent down. Nothing the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/158 "2025-01-10T10:41:50Z")
My country when through a period of hyperinflation in the mid-'80s, when I was just a little kid, and ever since then I’ve distrusted cash. It got better here after that, but growing up, I’ve always seen cash as something that loses value the moment you put it into your wallet. So naturally, I’m very happy with this modern cashless world. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/159 "2025-01-10T11:36:53Z")
But wouldn’t your money lose just as much value if it sat in your bank account and you used some other method to spend it? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591/160 "2025-01-10T11:42:58Z")
First of all, I was just a kid at the time. Someone gave me money, I spent it right away or I lost it. Second of all, bold of you to assume that anyone back then had money in the bank. Everyone had debt, because why the hell not? | [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-people-are-weird-about-cash/1012591.md?page=9)