I’ve seen plenty of $100 bills. I’d say they’re rarer than 50s because of 50s being used in bank machines, but they’re hardly rare. If you want to see rare, try breaking a $1000 bill. Now that will get you some seriously funny looks.
I’ve never seen $50s used in bank machines. Then again, I always assume that bank machines only contain $20s, so maybe I could have withdrawn $50 at some point but didn’t notice it. I have once seen an ATM that gave $5s, though.
As for the $1000 bill, hasn’t it been taken out of circulation a few years ago?
The TD machine here used to give them out until a couple of months ago, when the machines were replaced. The credit union ATM still gives them out though.
Yup, it was withdrawn in 2000. However, you can still find them floating around. I probably saw them more than most due to some murky aquantences I used to have, who found them very … convenient.
I’ve gotten maybe half a dozen of the new $100 bills since they were released, but that’s about it.
I get that a lot at Tim Horton’s and some other fast food joints. I presume that the volume of business they do coupled with the price of an average meal and the average denominations they take in show that they probably go through more $5 bills than anything else. Supermarkets and the like seem to carry a lot of $5, $10 and $20s though, probably due to the wide fluctuation in the value of people’s purchases and the denominations they take in.
Royal Bank machines at one point in the recent past (at least 'til the turn of the century) had everything from $5s to $50s. It was really convenient when your account was pathetically low and you could take out $5 or $10. I don’t think they do this anymore though, which is sort of a shame. I’m a BMO customer though, and I’m pretty sure all of their machines contain nothing but $20s.
I’ve never seen a $1,000 bill in person. Ever.
$1000 bills no longer exist for public distribution in the US. $500 bills and over stopped being printed for general use in 1945
The local ferry system has, until very recently, always given $2.00 bills in change. The prices went up, so the change from a $20.00 is, well, change.
Me neither. Maybe I should ask Mithrander to send me one, for research purposes? 
I ask for $20 in $2 bills whenever I go to the bank.
I enjoy spending them for the reaction, and also because I happen to be a big fan of Thomas Jefferson.
Royal Bank machines only have $20s these days. I did like it when I was a student and could get $10 if that was all I had in my account at that moment. Even when I had money, I’d try to maximize the number of $5s I could get by withdrawing $55 or $75, or some other amount that was $5 less than a multiple of 20. Considering that I use debit for pretty much every transaction over $10-15, I like having small bills and change.
I’ve seen them twice in real life, both about seven years ago. The first time, one guy ahead of me in line at the university registrar’s office paid his tuition with two of them, which caused a bit of excitement. Second time, I had around 20 of them in my hands, which caused me a lot or excitement. Of course, there were some not very nice guys with guns in the room, so taking them wasn’t exactly an option. Since I don’t do anything anymore to hang out with that sort of crowd, I haven’t seen them since.
If you just want to see what they look like, you can find a picture of them on wiki.
When I was a college student, the ATM in the student union dispensed $1 bills. I never actually used the feature, I don’t think, because I couldn’t see paying even a small fee on a transaction less than $20. It was available, though. I guess I should have gotten $21 dollars one time, or something.
I recently paid a fine at the library with a $2 bill. The lady got a kick out of it. I came by the bill from a survey in the mail - the company sent out this survey with a $2 bill enclosed, hoping that you’d fill out and return the survey. I didn’t (because the small business the envelope was addressed to is defunct), but I did enjoy receiving the $2. It may be the only fun junk mail I’ve ever gotten.