What was your most expensive cash purchase?

[Spinneret]

I would say £150 for a TV

 

[tvguy]

Remodeling my house.

 

[MICKIMINI]

Our house!

 

[lynxstch]

Our house

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Adding solar to our house.

 

[Jangles]

I would say £150 for a TV

Do you mean paid in actual notes and coins or without credit? To me ‘cash’ means notes and coins, but some of the answers maybe suggest that in the US cash means something different.
I have this image of someone buying a house for half a million and spending 24 hours counting the notes out on the table.

 

[tvguy]

Do you mean paid in actually notes and coins or without credit? To me ‘cash’ means notes and coins, but some of the answers maybe suggest that in the US cash means something different.
I have this image of someone buying a house for half a million and spending 24 hours counting the notes out on the table.

One third of all home sales here are cash. As in, no credit. But probably a check or wire transfer which in the banking industry is considered a cash transaction, not peeling off dollar bills, LOL.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I just insulated and resided my house I wrote a check to pay for it. I wasn’t comfortable walking around with that amount of cash but I considered it a cash purchase. Not sure if that qualifies for this thread.

 

[Karin1984]

Where I am from, if you pay for your house with cash, you are probably money laundering. If you pay construction workers cash, then something is probably not right.

 

[georgina]

Where I am from, if you pay for your house with cash, you are probably money laundering. If you pay construction workers cash, then something is probably not right.

So if you sell one house and use the money to buy another you are a crook? Like was said above, in the US we consider anything not bought with credit or borrowing as a cash purchase. I had a bank wire transfer money for my house.

 

[Jangles]

So if you sell one house and use the money to buy another you are a crook? Like was said above, in the US we consider anything not bought with credit or borrowing as a cash purchase. I had a bank wire transfer money for my house.

I think the misunderstanding is because we refer to them as credit or debit purchases, rather than cash.

 

[FreeTime]

My house and my office. Wire transfer. Didn’t count out the cash although I did say, let’s go get this in ones and roll around in it.

 

[Karin1984]

So if you sell one house and use the money to buy another you are a crook? Like was said above, in the US we consider anything not bought with credit or borrowing as a cash purchase. I had a bank wire transfer money for my house.

Strange remark.
You seem to understand that I am not from the US and that I have a different definition of cash. So, why do you wonder if I mean that you are a crook for buying a house?

The OP gives an amount in GBP, so likely it's a British definition of cash. As the Oxford dictionary says: Cash = money in the form of coins or notes

 

[YachtClubWoman]

My new car last week

 

[barb969]

The most expensive cash purchase was a used Porsche about $60000.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Two homes

 

[BlueStarryHat]

The most I ever spent in cash was for a bed many years ago- $1100.00

 

[emily nicole]

Actual cash, as in bills... my car.

 

[John VN]

CASH to me is paper bills and coin not check or wire transfer so to that point the most cash was for a friend's ca$h bail some years ago of $1,800.00. More recently as by a check it would be our newly installed roof solar and the 2010 Miata MX5 that DW forced me to get. Under 30,000 miles and shows almost like showroom condition.

 

[Stratman50th]

Our house.