2 Questions

Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by loswhit in Mid Afternoon Distraction

What is the largest sum of money you have ever carried in yo pocket?
Why did you have that much bling in yo pocket?

Los

103 Responses to “2 Questions”

  1. charles 29 April 2010 at 1:14 am #

    $3000. bought a motorcycle.

  2. Crystal Renaud 29 April 2010 at 1:14 am #

    $100
    church camp. my dad doesn’t like it when i travel light. but he doesn’t seem to help out like that anymore. haha.

  3. Michele 29 April 2010 at 1:14 am #

    $3,500.00 – because I was buying a golf cart for our company, and the guy wanted cash. I was terrified the entire time!!!!

  4. keith Elgin 29 April 2010 at 1:15 am #

    500 bones…I had just turned 18 and “All About the Benjamins” had just come out. Thought I was livin’ the dream.

  5. Matt Beard 29 April 2010 at 1:15 am #

    Largest I can think of is $520. That was this Monday as I was headed to pay the guy at the shop who worked on my truck. They only take cash… Is that sketch? :)

  6. Alex 29 April 2010 at 1:16 am #

    $2,500

    Went to buy my first car my junior year of high school- a ’91 Cutlass Supreme, baby!

  7. Alex Brunk 29 April 2010 at 1:16 am #

    $37000.00 i got a check from the loan company at the last minute and my only choice was to go to that bank and cash it and then take the cash to my bank to deposit in order to get it to my University in time to keep student status. : / i cut it close and was so scared something would happen

  8. Annie 29 April 2010 at 1:16 am #

    lol funny question. im a bartender, and i used to have a bad habit of carrying around hundreds of dollars bc i was too “busy” to go to the bank. i think the most i ever had was 1500. stupid i know. i know better now!

  9. Daniel Beasley 29 April 2010 at 1:16 am #

    A little over $18k — I had to cash my Navy re-enlistment bonus check at the base finance office and drop by the PX to buy money orders (on my way to my re-enlistment party!)

  10. Brennen 29 April 2010 at 1:16 am #

    3,000 I think. To pay for my DTS and my extra cash money when I went to Panama in Central America. Lemme tell you, that purse was super close to my body in that airport.

  11. Tom from Syracuse 29 April 2010 at 1:17 am #

    I carried 300 dollars in my pocket once. I was going on a missions trip to N. Ireland while in high school and needed to exchange some money from dollars to pounds. Probably not the smartest move to do that all at once, in an airport… the service charge was 10 percent as I recall. I was a stupid kid haha.

  12. Albert 29 April 2010 at 1:17 am #

    One time, about 2Gs of cash in my pocket.

    It was to exchange for a new MacBook Pro I found on eBay. =) Did it in middle table @ a Starbucks, us decked out in sunglasses and coats. Somewhere out there, Jack Bauer is pleased…

  13. Joe Hancock 29 April 2010 at 1:17 am #

    I would say around 500ish. I had to pay for an event me and my fiance just threw the other day. We did our own Babbett’s Feast. We got the idea from The Prodigal God.

  14. Chilly 29 April 2010 at 1:17 am #

    $10,000+ (not in pocket but in bookbag)

    Smuggling it into Russia to give to missionaries.
    – it was crazy going through customs…

    • Patrick 29 April 2010 at 7:17 am #

      Chilly,
      That’s the coolest. Mine is very similar, just a little bit more but for the same reasons. :) Where in Russia?

      • Chilly 29 April 2010 at 2:17 pm #

        I took a team into Russia right after ‘the wall came down’ and at that time ONLY cash would work (due to corruption in the govt. and/or russian mafia). So, place the large sum of money in the bottom of my bag and hid around $500 (bait) in the top – they took the $500 in customs (as expected) but didn’t dig further! Whew! I walked out the door handed the backpack to an awaiting missionary who handed me back an empty matching bag & disappeared. Very 007-like! GOD’S WORK ROCKS!

  15. Alex 29 April 2010 at 1:18 am #

    In my pocket $4,000, to deposit in the bank. But I traveled half way across the country with about $7,500 in a safebox in my trunk.

  16. Jason 29 April 2010 at 1:20 am #

    About $1500 after a day of poker at a casino. Turned $100 into that. :)

  17. Paula 29 April 2010 at 1:21 am #

    Over $10,000. I was terrified.

    I was the secretary for your youth camp and that was fees, offerings, bookshop and canteen takings.

    I had to look after it for 2 days.

  18. Pat Callahan 29 April 2010 at 1:22 am #

    1. Think the most ever – in cash – was $1,800.
    2 Got $1,200 in there right now. That’s just how I roll.

  19. patricia 29 April 2010 at 1:22 am #

    $20,000 in my pocket (in philippine pesos, which was about 1million buckaroos) – I was working for the government during that time :) dont ask about the details.

    • patricia 29 April 2010 at 1:09 pm #

      sorry about the multiple replies…i was replying on my blackberry and it said message sending fail everytime. whoooooops!

  20. Jesse Gordon 29 April 2010 at 1:22 am #

    I carried $1700 to buy my MacBook because my debit card has a $500 daily limit. I walked quickly from my car to the Apple Store to say the least. I found out later that I could have called my bank and had the limit raised temporarily…

  21. patricia 29 April 2010 at 1:23 am #

    $20,000 in my bag (in philippine pesos, which was about 1million buckaroos) – I was working for the government during that time :) dont ask about the details.

  22. Kristen 29 April 2010 at 1:25 am #

    10 grand. Sold a honda civic when we adopted our 4th child and then paid cash for our first minivan.

  23. JuliaKate 29 April 2010 at 1:27 am #

    not really sure. i was a vault teller for years so i feel like i’ve become desensitized to money… not its value, but i just lost the giddiness that loads of cash can tend to make a raised in the ghetto girl feel. anyway, bi-weekly i leave work with my paycheck in cash. i’m no longer a vault teller, i’m a nanny and it’s a lot of cash, bcuz i’m an awesome nanny and i work for very generous folks. Chase bank is just a mile away and they hold checks like their going out of style (oh wait, they are!).
    i better not get robbed now, lol! ;)

  24. Samuel 29 April 2010 at 1:27 am #

    $2K; like many others, I was buying something off of Craigslist: My first car! I was nervous and excited. And mostly nervous…

  25. patricia 29 April 2010 at 1:30 am #

    $20,000 in my bag. (Converted into philippine pesos). I used to work for the congress of the philippines so it was for a business deal obviously :)

  26. MLP 29 April 2010 at 1:30 am #

    $2500 travel money while moving cross country

  27. Carlos Sandoval 29 April 2010 at 1:32 am #

    $850 to pay for my rent because our landlord wanted cash.

    • Jason 29 April 2010 at 10:52 am #

      if you landlord wants cash, that is a problem. Always a check or money order.

  28. Elise B 29 April 2010 at 1:32 am #

    $2400 that i pulled out of the bank to buy my 1980 El Camino. Best $2400 EVER spent by anyone

  29. Zach 29 April 2010 at 1:35 am #

    $13,000 down payment on a car. Carried all day as I car shopped, and checked a million times to make sure it was still there.

  30. Heather EV 29 April 2010 at 1:36 am #

    I personally have had a $1700 check once (for college financial aid). And I have been with someone who had $10,000 cash once because she was mailing to a missionary in Cambodia. Other than that, nothing big.

  31. Alon 29 April 2010 at 1:36 am #

    1,490,000 Malawian kwacha (MWK)…..$10,000 US. On my way to Malawi on a mission trip for three weeks with 18 people. This was our trip funds.

  32. Matt @notmyshow 29 April 2010 at 1:39 am #

    It’s a little embarrasing, but $9k in small bills selling programs at a Nascar race… silly rednecks…

  33. JamesBrett 29 April 2010 at 1:47 am #

    20-something thousand. it was the offering at a big college ministry event, and i was the counter and “protector.”

    the next morning i locked it in my trunk to run inside the building to help with loading some sound equipment, and my wife let one of the organizers of the event into our trunk to get the money — so it could be deposited. but they didn’t tell me.

    i got back to the trunk and completely freaked out. i was about to cry, and then they told me, kind of in passing, “oh, yeah, we took that money out of there and put it in the bank…”

    • Lisa 29 April 2010 at 9:32 am #

      LOL!!!!!!!!!

  34. Lisa Smith (@stretchmarkmama) 29 April 2010 at 1:53 am #

    I carried over $5000 cash on our trip to China to adopt — so many of the fees had to be paid with crisp, $100 bills. I carried it on my body in a money belt and sakes alive, that was stressful.

  35. Zack 29 April 2010 at 1:54 am #

    3500, on my honeymoon. Had a wedding 2 hours away, apparently no one wanted to bring gifts, just straight cash. But me and my bride were totally hooked up by our friends, cause we lived like kings in Hawaii.

  36. courtney 29 April 2010 at 2:14 am #

    about $2000…i was taking it to the bank to start a checking account…before that i hid all my money in a teapot in my room

  37. Derrick 29 April 2010 at 2:16 am #

    About $2500 to buy my first real guitar (Taylor 810). Drove my car, worth less than a grand, to Guitar Center w/ the cash in my pocket. That was odd.

  38. Nathan Peeples 29 April 2010 at 2:22 am #

    $8,500… for about 30 seconds. Used it to get cashiers check for closing cost on our first house. Praise God!!!

  39. Kyle Shevlin 29 April 2010 at 2:54 am #

    $18 – 20,000, was a manager and had to make nightly deposits. Personally, the most I’ve ever had in cash on me was $2400, it was a donation given to me when I left my last job, went straight to the bank and got that in a safe place.

  40. alicia 29 April 2010 at 3:08 am #

    I had 100 grand… not really – I worked at a bank and had to count out the vault money.. I kept thinking, what would it be like to really have this money??? :)

    • kristina 30 April 2010 at 1:45 pm #

      So close…yet so far away!!

  41. Lori Jo 29 April 2010 at 3:19 am #

    i think it was 400…for my car. the rest was a check.

  42. samantha 29 April 2010 at 3:26 am #

    $900, my friends and i were going on a cruise. we put all of the tickets on my credit card and they all gave me cash.

  43. Jennifer 29 April 2010 at 3:31 am #

    I think the most I ever carried was $2500 – when I graduated from high school, my grandma gave me a card with 25 $100 bills in it. Yeah – that was a freaky card to open when it all fell out in my lap! It promptly went into my parent’s safe (so my mom could monitor how it was spent)

    However the most I’ve heard of was when my mom brokered a real estate deal where the guy paid cash… around $150,000. And she had to hold it over the weekend. Stressful? Oh yeah! But that was when I learned that hotels have lockboxes that you can use if necessary.

  44. Sue 29 April 2010 at 5:35 am #

    ouch. $50.00 on my way to the grocery store.

  45. Patrick 29 April 2010 at 7:21 am #

    $400,000 – When we first moved to Kazakhstan as missionaries the bank’s couldn’t do any kind of transfers from anywhere. So for our team, of more than 10 people, we had to carry in all of their salaries. My dad and I did it together. I was about 17yrs old, and when we got home my dad called me over to his office, said “hold out your hands” and let me hold all of that cash. He then said, “you will probably never have this experience ever again!” It was an unforgettable moment! :) Oh and PTL for wire transfers now, I remember how nervous my dad was! :) :)

  46. Dale Schaeffer 29 April 2010 at 8:06 am #

    Around $4,500 for a mission trip/relief trip to New Orleans.

  47. wpusey 29 April 2010 at 8:08 am #

    $10,000… we were traveling to China to adopt our daughter. :)

  48. Toby 29 April 2010 at 8:18 am #

    $6,000 on our honeymoon cuz it came in the form of gifts the night before and I didn’t get a chance to hit the bank…..That, plus I’m a moron :D

  49. chrissynoelle 29 April 2010 at 8:28 am #

    may I ask why? I’m just wonderin why you are wonderin?

  50. Pam 29 April 2010 at 8:36 am #

    Love your blog by the way! Had $5,000 to bail my little brother out of jail and another $5,000 for his lawyer.

  51. c 29 April 2010 at 8:37 am #

    several thousand…often in ones. we have laundromats. we also routinely have 5 gallon buckets full of quarters. yeah, we’re cool.

  52. Iler Poe 29 April 2010 at 9:04 am #

    funny you ask because I am holding 350 bucks in my pocket right now because of my lawn business that i’ve been doing… i feel like the richest teenager in the world.. Dakota Fanning ain’t got notin on me! :)

  53. Scott P. 29 April 2010 at 9:24 am #

    The largest sum of money that I have ever had in my pocket is around $35,000. I sold a car and was buying another. I only had it for a week or so and didn’t carry it in my pocket the whole time.

    I have carried a bank deposit with over $175,000 in cash to the bank, but it wasn’t in my pocket and it didn’t belong to me.

    I do like carrying cash and usually have around $300-$400 on me. The funny thing is that I don’t spend much cash. I use credit cards for nearly everything. I only replenish the cash in wallet every six months or so.

    • Zack 29 April 2010 at 1:43 pm #

      Scott,

      Me and you need to be friends.

      Especially on my birthday…

  54. MJT 29 April 2010 at 9:25 am #

    Between 35,000 and 40,000. I had a fireworks stand, it was all cash.

  55. Jonathan Charlie Chang 29 April 2010 at 9:28 am #

    $3000. It was after our wedding and we were going to a hotel near BWI. I was like, I hope we don’t get robbed!

    nicodemusatnite.blogspot.com

  56. Ben of BenandJacq 29 April 2010 at 9:30 am #

    4000 bones. Counted (some of) it out onto a table at a jeweler, and not it resides on the hand of my bride of 4 years (today!)

  57. Izzie 29 April 2010 at 9:39 am #

    I had $5000 because I was in Korea and they don’t really do checks, it was my deposit for my apartment.. Most of it was in the equivalent of $10 bills, no joke.

  58. brandon 29 April 2010 at 9:50 am #

    $7000 for a new ride while in college. Used Accord

  59. Shaun Groves 29 April 2010 at 9:50 am #

    These comments are making me seriously consider a career change from musician guy to mugger guy.

    • Bryan 29 April 2010 at 10:42 am #

      Don’t worry, I had the same thought…

    • ERin 29 April 2010 at 11:12 am #

      LOL

  60. Chris 29 April 2010 at 9:51 am #

    Back when I ran a store, it wasn’t uncommon for me to have multiple thousands of dollars on me on the way to the bank. Earlier this week I finished an event for my current job with a bit over $1000 to take back to the store (made my boss happy!).

    Probably the craziest cash-hogging day was when I bought a car off of eBay. The seller insisted on cash, and it took me stopping at several different banks to gather up all of the necessary funds. That was somewhere around $4-5K in $100 bills.

    Once a month in Dallas they have a big computer flea market under a bridge downtown. When we were opening our store I went down there, around midnight on a Friday, carrying about $1800 in $20s. I had to hit a half-dozen ATMs to get out all the cash I needed. Walking around a city in the middle of the night with that much cash makes you feel like a drug dealer about to get mugged.

  61. Angela 29 April 2010 at 9:53 am #

    I’ve never held too much cash, other than about $2k from the deposit from the bar, but I’ve held someone else’s $1,000,000 check in my hand (I process annuities). I was terrified to mail it!

  62. Amanda Mae 29 April 2010 at 10:05 am #

    A few hundred dollars a few different times. In Mexico I carried a lot of cash, just for simplicity’s sake. I’m a nanny and occasionally I get paid in cash instead if with a check. And a few weeks ago, I bought concert tickets for a few people and everyone paid me in cash. Also, I was a youth minister and a day camp director at one point, so I would sometimes have lots of camp from parents and kids with me.

  63. Greg 29 April 2010 at 10:05 am #

    Just over $6,000. Withdrew it from one bank to go to the other and pay off a vehicle.

  64. Kirsten 29 April 2010 at 10:24 am #

    A little of $3,000 to pay the “mandatory orphange donation” (is that an oxymoron?) when we adopted our son from China.

  65. gretchen 29 April 2010 at 10:42 am #

    $2,500 – To pay cash for the best Dave Ramsey-loving all-cash minivan we’ve ever owned.

  66. Bryan 29 April 2010 at 10:44 am #

    22k, we sold our first house, the guy literally brought cash for the downpayment. It seemed a little sketchy, but we took it anyway ;)

  67. Jared 29 April 2010 at 10:47 am #

    $5320. It was a refund for left over financial aid that wasn’t used toward tuition. Took 2500 to savings, 2500 in my checking account and spent the rest on a sweet tv for my dorm…

  68. Lindsey Harts 29 April 2010 at 10:48 am #

    Probably 200. I believe it was given to me before I went on a youth trip.

  69. Chris Burke 29 April 2010 at 11:12 am #

    about $22,000 CAD (thats like $1 US right?) we were doing a mission trip to New Orleans, and I was collecting all the money for the trip.. I then took it all to the office, and handed it over to our finance person..

  70. stacikristine 29 April 2010 at 11:17 am #

    I think it was between $800-$1000 when I was 16 and I’d just finished babysitting for a couple of weeks. The parents owned a fireworks superstore, and I was working VERY long hours keeping their kids. They paid me in cash so there wasn’t a trail. ;) I took pictures with all the $100 bills before I deposited them!

  71. C. Fry 29 April 2010 at 11:20 am #

    $5,500. I use to sell a lot of drugs!

  72. zach 29 April 2010 at 11:41 am #

    I got to carry about $200,000 once for a bit. My dad was in the Air Force and he would travel with government envoys. The cash was used to pay stuff like landing fees and fuel bills in other countries

  73. Luc 29 April 2010 at 12:48 pm #

    $400

    i found it on the ground in a parking lot at a movie theatre this last winter

  74. Amy 29 April 2010 at 12:53 pm #

    Hmmm, I think it was $6,000. I had cashed a check in order to pay another bill and didn’t want to write a check for $6,000 because any amount over $3,000 causes my bank to place a hold on the account and investigate.

  75. bex 29 April 2010 at 12:56 pm #

    $2,000! But only between work and the bank. Someone anonymously gifted my husband and I $2,000 in cash to help with our international adoption expenses! Amazing.

  76. Zack 29 April 2010 at 1:31 pm #

    About $8,000…

    I was entering a 3rd-world country to do missions for a year, so I needed cash for a year.

    The place where I was going was ranked as the 5th-most-corrupt country in the world, so I lied right through my teeth on my customs form…

    I didn’t have any problems that day, but we had to lay down a SERIOUS bribe for them to let us back out of the country.

  77. Jamie the Very Worst Missionary 29 April 2010 at 1:41 pm #

    We had to pay cash to buy our car in Costa Rica. $12,000, which we took out of the ATM $1000 at a time for two weeks prior. The trip to buy the car – 2 hours on 3 different buses – was a little nerve wracking.

    I NEVER carried cash in the states. Now I carry $1500 every month to pay bills, rent, etc. It didn’t bother me until I had my purse stolen with $600 in it. :( Now, it totally freaks me out to carry that kind of $$$!

  78. Michael Chase 29 April 2010 at 3:18 pm #

    My wife and I carried $10,000 once.

    It was a ridiculous story where a producer associate of mine, from NYC, was sponsoring a new mental illusionist who was going to be on the Ellen Degeneres show. Part of the illusionists act was to offer $10,000 to a guest in the audience if they could guess something from him and he needed “flash money”. We were asked, since we were in LA and they weren’t, if they could borrow our money for this 1 min act on TV. We happened to have the money (just) and got a free back-stage tour of the Ellen show.

    … and yes, the money was returned to us, and the bit was cut from his 5 min spot on the show.

  79. Paul Kerslake 29 April 2010 at 4:43 pm #

    £95,000. In my bag. I was (still do) accounting for a festival here in the UK, and they didn’t have a night safe. So I brought the takings home each night.

    Have also done various tour drop offs/pick ups, but they’re only in the £5,000 – £10,000 area.

    Only he says…..

  80. Aaron 29 April 2010 at 5:35 pm #

    $5k (in Chinese Yuan, which translates to a very thick money belt). Payment to Adoption Affairs office in Chongqing, China to adopt our daughter.

  81. Jim 29 April 2010 at 7:02 pm #

    $600,000 USD / Central America / Prior Life…

  82. Sarah 29 April 2010 at 10:44 pm #

    I once had a check on my desk for $468,000. It was the balance of a huge donation that our community was given about 10 years ago…and it was incredibly surreal to look at. We continue to use money from this fund here and there for various projects and ministries.

    • Sarah 29 April 2010 at 10:47 pm #

      Oh, and in my personal possession I once had over $4000 in my purse to deposit in the bank. My husband and I received all of it as gifts on our wedding day from our amazingly generous and supportive friends and family.

  83. Jennifer 29 April 2010 at 11:35 pm #

    roughly $2,000, going to deposit money from my graduation party in high school.

  84. c 30 April 2010 at 12:32 am #

    about $3000. To China as a customary donation to the orphanage that our daughter lived in for her first year. It was nerve wracking to carry that much cash and fly across the world and then go site seeing for a few days and then finally hand it over after about 5 days in China.

  85. Renee Garcia 30 April 2010 at 8:31 am #

    $14,000 on our way to Ukraine to adopt our little girl. :)

  86. Globalamy 30 April 2010 at 10:41 am #

    Several thousand…Don’t remember the exact amount. We, too, were on our way to Ukraine to adopt 2 children. Money well spent. :)

  87. LitaNJ 30 April 2010 at 1:42 pm #

    $6,500.00 in a money belt to Russia so we could finish the adoption process and bring home our son <3

  88. Marla 30 April 2010 at 4:45 pm #

    Ten thousand, Vegas Baby!!!!!

  89. Chris Day 30 April 2010 at 7:14 pm #

    $2200. To buy my Mac Book Pro last summer. The guy at the Apple store was floored when I counted out the $1800 it cost in $100 bills.

  90. Pam 30 April 2010 at 10:07 pm #

    $10,000 cash. I carried it to Kazakstan to help a family adopt their daughter. We took over $25,000 in cash to pay the baby house and the government.

  91. kermit 1 May 2010 at 8:49 am #

    2.5 million php (about 35,000 pounds ) from cebu to zamboanga city on plane security guards thought i was mad thay kill you for 5 php were i live in zamboanag city but banks dident have that much cash in zamboanag city at time lol im english from birmingham, to buy a housae and new car things lot cheaper with cash not like uk thay wont take cash now but philippines cash talks :)

  92. kermit 1 May 2010 at 8:54 am #

    forgot to add we both carry smith@wesson 40cal guns lol in zamboanga city and had been shooting every 2 weeks for 5 years while we lived there :) .im ex army allways told my wife if you shoot someone allways make sure there dead :( it did come to that one day when my wife was on her own and she did come out the winner with 3 guys dead. who tried to rob her. my 5ft 3 tall wife, size isent important it,s will to win :)

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