Spinoff - most cash you ever carried in public

[Gumbo4x4]

When I was a tour guide at Meramec Caverns, it was strictly a cash business. At the end of the day, someone had to bring the money to the office. The ticket salesman would wrap the cash in a white piece of paper with a rubber band, and then you’d head through the crowd with as much as $15,000 in your hands. Was pretty intimidating for a teenager LOL

As for my own money, had a guy who owed me for some work pay me ~$5,200 in cash which I then needed to get home from out of state. And I took $8,500 in cash out of state to buy a boat once.

 

[JaxDad]

When I was in the military, I had to make some large cash payments to contractors at our deployed location, sometimes many tens of thousands of dollars. Of course, my co-workers and I were pretty heavily armed at the time.

 

[elgerber]

We went out of town once while looking for a car for my dd. We have seen numerous cars for sale when we drive to this area, so we took the $6000 cash we had to buy a car, with us on the holiday weekend. Made me very nervous.

 

[Tigger in a kilt]

About £8000, when I volunteered at a charity’s formal ball fundraiser. I worked the raffle table, where tickets were £50 each. I enjoyed working the event but it was nerve-wracking to have to be responsible for that kind of cash late at night in an empty hotel when I was taking it to the hotel’s safe.

 

[kimblebee]

It was $1200 and that was only a 2 minute car ride from the bank to home lol

 

[dish rag]

$14,000. I was buying jewelry and was paying with cash.

 

[RedAngie]

About $32,300.

Occasionally one of my company's stores closes and sells the remaining merchandise to another party taking over the business. A physical inventory is performed to determine the value of the product. There is an estimate prepared a few days in advance and buyers almost always produce a certified check for that amount at closing. Any adjustments (usually + or - about $500) are made by cash or personal check.

One buyer decided to pay entirely in cash. I was nervous driving about 100 miles to deliver the cash to company headquarters. The VP of Finance accompanied me to the bank to deposit it.

 

[TavieP]

Traumatic memory: I was 26 years old, just moved into an apartment with my good friend. For some reason I had $1,000 cash - all the savings I had in the world - in an envelope, in my pocket, and it was New Year's Eve and my roommate and I stopped at the Shop Rite in Jersey City to pick up champagne in the liquor department, and then we were going to go to the bank to deposit my cash.

See where this is going, right? I lost the envelope. Fell out of my picket. In the liquor store, or in the parking lot - we searched and searched and searched. Gone forever.

Someone had a VERY nice New Year's Eve that year. But it wasn't me.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Traumatic memory: I was 26 years old, just moved into an apartment with my good friend. For some reason I had $1,000 cash - all the savings I had in the world - in an envelope, in my pocket, and it was New Year's Eve and my roommate and I stopped at the Shop Rite in Jersey City to pick up champagne in the liquor department, and then we were going to go to the bank to deposit my cash.

See where this is going, right? I lost the envelope. Fell out of my picket. In the liquor store, or in the parking lot - we searched and searched and searched. Gone forever.

Someone had a VERY nice New Year's Eve that year. But it wasn't me.

Major bummer

 

[soccerdad72]

Maybe a couple thousand - we had a contractor or two who asked to get paid in cash, so the total extent of being "in public" was the drive home from the bank.

 

[Micca]

I went to Best Buy one time with about 3k in cash to buy some electronics. The kid waiting on me got nervous and called over his manager, I guess he'd never been responsible for a large-ish transaction in cash.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I paid cash for a car once - I think it was about $3500 that I took to the guy.

My DH used to fill ATM machines for a living. He would carry sometimes $100,000 at a time into the casino to refill theirs in a tote bag (like the kind from LL Bean). Of course he carried a gun too, so he didn't ever get messed with, but it was still scary knowing he was doing that.

 

[Kitty 34]

$8,000 and it wasn't even a drug deal........just paying for DH's used truck.

 

[Dream Finder]

Do bearer bonds count? There was an armoured car strike and DH (who was a guard at a bank) carried several million dollars worth in the trunk of his car. Then once, I had to take cash to another branch where I work - it was around 100k. I was NOT easy until it was safe in the vault!

 

[bcla]

Not cash, but I was working a job in college doing accounts payable for a shipping company in San Francisco. One of our big vendors was the pre UP-merger Southern Pacific. Our company negotiated a payout to reconcile hundreds of invoices where we couldn’t identify the shipment in our records. I had to carry a check for about $200,000 to the VP of Southern Pacific. It was just a few blocks, and I walked past the Federal Reserve Bank of SF. That place deals with billions in cash.

 

[Hikergirl]

$9500 buying a vehicle

 

[PanamaMike]

Downtown Chicago. Fall 1993. $65,000 in my backpack.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

The most was probably around 8,000 at one time. I had a customer that paid me cash for seafood regularly, he always wanted to meet at a TA truck stop of all places. I had to start telling him to meet me in different areas every week cause he would count the cash right out in plain view in the parking lot. I’m armed but he wasn’t and I thought you are going to get us shot, at least get in one of our vehicles.

 

[tvguy]

$1,200 when I had my driveway replaced. Contractor made a bid that was several hundred higher, but said he'd do it for $1,200 if I paid in cash.
While I routinely have $500 around, and generally have $1,000 when I go on vacation, that's about the max I will have.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I used to be a captain of a counting team at our church, and one of the duties was to deposit the money. There was a lot, especially during holidays. I hated taking the money to the bank. We always went in two cars, but I felt so vulnerable.