Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?2 bundles of £10,000 of £20 notes (so £20,000) - my mum owns a post office, so I was helping her put the money in the safe at the back
Other than that, when I used to volunteer at my local charity shop, I had to go and deposit ~ £2,500 of cash / some coin bags into the bank account - this only happened once though, because we were very short-staffed, so someone had to stay in the shop
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?(Original post by green.tea)
In my case it was when my parents sold their shop and were walking to the bank. Looking back it seems odd that cash was involved.
yeh does seem strange that they sell their shop for cash
did their "shop" sell lots of drugs?
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?lol(Original post by DawnRaider)
yeh does seem strange that they sell their shop for cash
did their "shop" sell lots of drugs?
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?and never tempted once to hop on a bus in the other direction?(Original post by philistine)
In the region of £18,000 - £20,000; no idea how much exactly.
I worked for a bookmakers shortly before I started university, and the manager was one of those super lethargic, lackadaisical nonces. Anyway, every few months he'd forget to take the week's cash to the post office (which was, quite literally ten seconds from the building), and we had to make a mad dash for the bank with huge amounts of money. He had more than me, so we were probably transporting anything from 40 to 50k down the street.
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?While rummaging through my dads' wallet for a fiver I stumbled across £1000. I then proceeded to continue my search for the fiver.
And so ends an exciting saga of my life.Last edited by Vian; 07-06-2012 at 18:53. -
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?£20 000, I was the work experience girl in Barclays and I had to unscrumple the money to put it through the money counter machine.. so tedious, definitely took the excitement out of it!
Shame on those people who scrumple £50 notes anyway :P -
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?i get it , better not to ask too many questions(Original post by PinkMobilePhone)
lol it wasn't for me to mind. It was my mam's, and for some reason she had it in the house in a large holdall.
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?I did some work experience in a bank when I was 15 and they trusted me way too much with the money. I was left alone in a room full of boxes containing thousands upon thousands of pounds and asked to count it. When I left for my lunch break they didn't even search me
They showed me the underground vaults one day, which was pretty cool. Felt like I was in Gringotts diden'I 
My Mum owns a Tearoom and sometimes forgets to go to the bank. At any given time there can be up to 3 grand in her handbag. I have told her that this is bad. -
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?i hear you on that one mate(Original post by nerd434)
Around £550 in my wallet. As when I was younger, saving money seemed like such a productive thing to do. However, now I have difficulties saving a mere £100.. -
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Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?£1,000,0000,000,000,000
Me and my brother used to write cheques to each other from our mum's chequebook when we were little. Thinking back, I really should've cashed them...Last edited by lukas1051; 07-06-2012 at 19:08.
