# Right now how much cash money do you have available? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005 "2014-04-13T08:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/41 "2014-04-13T17:34:41Z")
I don’t carry cash. I think there’s about $25 in the petty cash box at the office right now, but I wouldn’t have that on me if I was walking around town. Of course, I could get quite a bit out of an ATM at any given moment. My wife pulls out about $300 in cash each month; how much she has with her is usually closer to $50, but any number between 2 and 300 is fairly likely at any given moment. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/42 "2014-04-13T17:37:03Z")
I have [$6.95 in change and a five-dollar bill](https://www.flickr.com/photos/komiksulo/13826594235/). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/43 "2014-04-13T19:54:08Z")
I have a 2-dollar bill in my wallet, which doesn’t actually count because I won’t spend it. Probably about 50 dollars in change around the house. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/44 "2014-04-13T19:59:03Z")
I think I have less than $5 in my purse. We hardly have any change around the house either - we took it all to the credit union a couple of weeks ago. Even then, it was under $50. We do debit and credit cards for most purchases. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/45 "2014-04-13T20:00:49Z")
About $200 USD. I have 4 tens in my laptop bag, and I have 2 twenties in each of my three vehicles, and then an estimated $40 in change. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/46 "2014-04-13T20:11:07Z")
I have three currencies in my wallet right now & the coins from each in a different pocket of my pants so I can keep it all straight. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/47 "2014-04-13T21:21:42Z")
$70, plus maybe $20 in change between the vehicles and my bedroom dresser. And since I’m in a state with a ten-cent refund on bottles and cans, perhaps about $2.00 worth of returnables. ---
**Author:** ![delsina363](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@delsina363](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delsina363)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/48 "2014-04-13T22:39:22Z")
I started the weekend with around $37 - $38 dollars. It is now Sunday, and all I have is the change on the bottom of my hand bag (purse, whatever you call it). My two daughters managed to wrangle all my money from me in less than 48 hours. :o ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/49 "2014-04-13T23:53:00Z")
I have C$175 in bills (8 twenties and 3 fives), $10.60 in change, mostly quarters. This includes 20 quarters that I had set aside last Sunday afternoon to pay for parking near a concert. It turned out that the parking lot I use for these Sunday concerts is undergoing renovation and I was able to find on-street, unmetered street parking (illegal during weekdays). I don’t understand this using no cash even for small purchases. I don’t use credit until about $20 (except for parking since the machines tend to be very particular about bills so cards are much easier). My wife also has over $100. Plus a couple of small emergency reservoirs. Oh and I just recalled that I have about US$100 and a couple hundred Bajan (= US$100). I could use the US money fine here, but not the Bajan. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/50 "2014-04-14T00:05:47Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I have [$6.95 in change and a five-dollar bill](https://www.flickr.com/photos/komiksulo/13826594235/). You win 🙂 How very cool! I rarely carry cash, that’s what plastic is for. Last week, I wanted to get my car washed and didn’t do it because I didn’t have 2 cash dollars to tip the people who prewash my car. I do stash emergency cash in all of my vehicles and at work, but that’s not spending money. I did get my car washed the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/51 "2014-04-14T00:08:45Z")
Between wallet and random change, probably around $10-15. I almost never use cash these days. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/52 "2014-04-14T00:28:54Z")
I actually found $200.00 in the cuff of my jeans today. I forgot I had stashed it there for my trip to Disneyland week after next. So my answer has to be revised. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/53 "2014-04-14T01:23:21Z")
I have a pretty substantial stash of cash in the gun safe. I have about fifty bucks in my wallet and another thirty in the console of my Jeep. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/54 "2014-04-14T01:23:45Z")
My son is traveling tomorrow and I got extra cash to give him some so right now I have $160 in my purse and my change jar hovers around $30. I keep a $20 in my glove compartment in case I leave my purse somewhere and need gas. Generally for “walking around money” I like to start the week with $40 or so. ---
**Author:** ![ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThisUsernameIsForbidden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisUsernameIsForbidden)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/55 "2014-04-14T01:50:07Z")
Not too much, as I generally only carry around at most 20 dollars in cash for a meal or two. We have some change in a jar like most people, but it is probably only about ten dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/56 "2014-04-14T02:02:12Z")
Good god people are carrying around a shitton of cash! Tonight between my husband and me we had $47 specifically because we were going out to eat. Now he has $4. Normally I have between nothing and $5 in my purse in cash, usually nothing. I have maybe three dollars in change in my car, and we’ve got a ‘convention fund’ of our spare cash that we keep at home, and a change jar to fund our vacation every year. No idea how much is in either - we don’t track it, it’s just to keep the loose bits that accumulate when we pay in cash and get change back. I rarely have need to use cash, and my credit union rewards me for using my debit card, so that’s usually what I do. Cuts way down on minor little impulse purchases when you have to drag a card out - if it’s less than $2, it’s usually not worth the bother, so it saves me the money. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/57 "2014-04-14T02:21:46Z")
$54.86 in my wallet/change pocket, and an emergency $100 bill secreted within my wallet, so $154.86. Plus some minor amount of change in the tray in my pickup- maybe 45 cents in pennies and nickels? ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/58 "2014-04-14T02:36:17Z")
$50 in my wallet Between $50-100 in change. More in the bank…but I don’t consider that to be “on hand.” But in case of a shit hitting the fan crisis I have enough food on hand for 3-6 months and plenty of ammo, so it balances itself out.😉 ---
**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:** [April 14, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/59 "2014-04-14T02:37:12Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > I don’t carry cash around at all as I have absolutely no need for it in daily life anymore. > > I do have a little over three thousand dollars in coins at home… Three _thousand_ dollars? In _coins?_ :eek: > [@flatlined](#): > > You win 🙂 How very cool! Thanks! > [@flatlined](#): > > I rarely carry cash, that’s what plastic is for. My cash _is_ plastic. 🙂 (Or metal.) > [@Lasciel](#): > > Good god people are carrying around a shitton of cash! Aren’t there developed economies that even now run mostly on a cash basis? > [@Lasciel](#): > > Cuts way down on minor little impulse purchases when you have to drag a card out… Actually, I fond that it’s the other away for me. If I just stick my debit card in and push a few buttons to transfer value, it just doesn’t have the same psychological impact as taking something physical out of my wallet that _will soon be handed permanently to the other person_. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005/60 "2014-04-14T13:36:01Z")
I hardly ever have cash beyond the change jar. Today is an anomaly, because I had a garage sale this weekend so have a little under $200 on hand. And I’m taking the change in to Coinstar today…1/4 of a gallon freezer bag full. So however much that is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-now-how-much-cash-money-do-you-have-available/686005.md?page=4)