How much cash are you hoarding?

[stitched]

The GF pulled me up last week for drawing an amount of cash, having lived in less than salubrious areas of the world it seemed entirely sensible to me.
So anyone else putting a few pound notes in the cupboard or is it just me?

[daddy cool]

About tree fiddy.

[Chris Type R]

If we get to the point where financial systems collapse will cash have any meaning ?

Rolls of toilet paper - that's what you want.

I have £2-300 knocking about IIRC, and a couple of hundred $.

Edited by Chris Type R on Monday 20th April 16:50

[98elise]

I don't remember the last time I took any cash out, let alone hoarding it. It's just paper and metal, it has no actual value. We're at the point electronic money has failed, then you might as well wipe your backside on the notes.

[MikeT66]

Fousands and fousands. Sensibly kept in the fridge.

[valiant]

Just before this kicked off, i took a few hundred out of the machine as ‘just in case’ money.

I still have every penny of it unspent. Everywhere you can go prefer that you pay by card and preferably contactless. Whilst I don’t think we’ll be a true cashless society anytime soon, this Coronavirus will hasten things along and be another nail in the coffin of using actual cash.

[Wills2]

£8.57p

[stitched]

Looks like she was right and it is just me being weird.

[anonymous-user]

Even my children don't want cash, my daughter just gave me a £20 note and asked me to transfer the money into her bank account.

So the total amount of cash I am hoarding is £20, to be honest with you I suspect it will sit in my wallet for months as I have no way of getting rid of it.

Personally I see cash as a massive inconvenience, if it is a small amount I will buy that exact amount of diesel and pay using the cash. For larger amounts I prefer to put it in the bank although that in itself is a pain.

[Monkeylegend]

stitched said:

Looks like she was right and it is just me being weird.

Try buying something with cash at the moment. None of the supermarkets I use will take it, even Home Bargains will only take card.

Card is king, you are being weird

[s2art]

Monkeylegend said:

stitched said:

Looks like she was right and it is just me being weird.

Try buying something with cash at the moment. None of the supermarkets I use will take it, even Home Bargains will only take card.

Card is king, you are being weird

Depends. What are the coke dealers taking these days?

[Monkeylegend]

s2art said:

Monkeylegend said:

stitched said:

Looks like she was right and it is just me being weird.

Try buying something with cash at the moment. None of the supermarkets I use will take it, even Home Bargains will only take card.

Card is king, you are being weird

Depends. What are the coke dealers taking these days?

Even they use card.

[PorkInsider]

I've got roughly £50 in cash.

I do have a good stash of toilet rolls, rice, pasta and tinned tomatoes, though, so could easily convert my assets to ready cash if needed.

24 bog rolls, 3 bags of pasta, 1kg of rice and 12 tins of toms. What's that..? £800ish these days?

[SCEtoAUX]

Two large.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

MikeT66 said:

Fousands and fousands. Sensibly kept in the fridge.

I used to make up the payroll for four factories with several hundred staff (back in the day when Friday meant an envelope full of cash).

I can't remember the exact set of events, but one Friday I went back to the safe to get the cash to make up the packets. Inside was three pints of milk. I legged it to our communal kitchen and yes, all the cash was where the milk should have been.

[Muzzer79]

98elise said:

I don't remember the last time I took any cash out, let alone hoarding it. It's just paper and metal, it has no actual value. We're at the point electronic money has failed, then you might as well wipe your backside on the notes.

This.

I hate using cash - it's hassle getting it out and coins rattle around for ages.

If I can't use a card due to world armageddon we're so totally screwed anyway that having a few hundred quid won't make any difference.

[Gilzean1]

s2art said:

Monkeylegend said:

stitched said:

Looks like she was right and it is just me being weird.

Try buying something with cash at the moment. None of the supermarkets I use will take it, even Home Bargains will only take card.

Card is king, you are being weird

Depends. What are the coke dealers taking these days?

The last time I bought some crack I paid with Apple Pay, my dealer used to use PayPal but it's lost it's street cred on Instagram apparently so he just had to change.

[s1962a]

[Branson]

Nothing in cash mate, all mine is tied up in me businesses and private island. Lend us a few quid?

[/Branson]

[fido]

I have some reddies ready for bribing tradesmen to do their stuff after lockdown.

[Jinx]

Got a couple of jars filled up with change?