Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?

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  1. HalleStar's Avatar
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    £5000



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  2. lebron_23's Avatar
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
    About £500...

    Wasn't mines though.. Was helping my granddad count it and i just sort of ran off with it :/

    ... Only as far as the kitchen though...
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
    This thread makes me feel desperately poor
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
    £2000, £1000 in each hand. I was seven/eight at the time, back in 1999, thought I'd never ever see that much money again. My dad then spent it on car repairs and a new computer.
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    Bout £1000. Spent it on this:



    **** was so cash.
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    About £400. I'd get paranoid if it was any more :L
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
    Not mine, but from work and doing the closing cash for the entire shop: About €100,000.

    Mine? Probably in the region of €1000.
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
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    Large holdall? :lolwut: was it in £1 coins?
    lol no, tens and twenties. The holdall wasn't FULL - 30k in notes wouldn't fill a holdall, that's just what it happened to be in.
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    N10,000.
    when you convert pounds to naira, you feel rich!
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    £1000

    This was holiday money for my 6 month trip. I deliberately told them to give it to me in £5 notes so I'd get a nice big fat bundle!
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    £12K I had to pay some school fees and I felt amazing when counting it. I'd never seen so many crisp £50 notes in my life.

    Also, my parent's once put like 5 grand in my school bag (don't know why) the night before and I went to school not knowing anything about it until my parents collected me from school after 1st period, in year 8. I felt so cool knowing I'd been carrying that much around lool.
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    £400 from doing a paper round. My pay was £24 a week, it was a ball ache . Then i spent it all on a PS3 that i sold 3 weeks later for £250 on eBay aha [s]banana2[/ .
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    3562592894862586001 gold coins in infinity blade thanks to iap cracker lol. it was physically in my hand coz i was holding my ipod touch
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    £800 when I bought my first car - I distinctly remember saying "I've never seen so much money!" Nothing weird though.
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    Something over £5000. My dad tried teaching me how to count money. I failed miserably.

    The weirdest thing was that it got my dad and I to interact. We converse three times a week (if that!) because he's always at work so that one day when I was in one of his businesses, he randomly came to me with a bag full of money and told me to count it.
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
    about £200, I spent the whole day being paranoid making sure nobody could possibly steal it from me.
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
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    £1000 on payday
    You must work for a dodgy company if they pay you in that amount in cash.
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    Re: Whats the most cash youve ever physically held in your hand?
    8500, when buying a car and paying cash.
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    I think, £2000~ was getting my new computer, bass and bass amp all in one day, and neither store took debit cards surprisingly
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