What's the largest amount of cash you have ever handled...

doesn't have to yours though.

For me it was just under $70K.
When I worked as a manager at a rather busy Sav-On in an affluent area. It was a couple of days before Christmas. That store routinely did about $30K daily in front end sales (non-pharmacy) and another $40k or so in pharmacy, cash & credit.
but that one night there was a lot of cash purchases. I think overall we did about $110K that one day.

 

only around 5k cash

it was mine though..after selling a truck

 

I can't remember, I used to have a store, some days wads of money, some days not as much, used to buy and sell houses but most of that was handled in cheques, still sometimes, a lot of money. OnceI know for sure was about 80 some grand for a down payment but was a cheque after I got it together from a few bank accounts after other deals were done. Didn't even get to hold it long.

 

I think it was $10k. I took it out of my account to let my sister borrow it. Drove it from my bank to hers to deposit it. You would have thought I had a newborn in the car. I kept worrying about getting robbed during that 5 mile drive.

 

Less than $10 K.
I've never worked in a cash room.
Frequent drops is good cash handling. It can be worrisome if you're in a situation where you can't make cash drops.

 

i've always been too paranoid of handling anyone else's money then my own.
it just seems like too convenient an opportunity for someone to get someone else into trouble. someone who refuses to knowingly lie to themselves for the sake of ANY ideology, belief, or anything else, has good and real cause for concern that someone might do so.

thus i consider a casheer's job higher risk then anything that might happen physically.

largest amount would be when my pension came through, the back amount for the months from when i applied to when it started coming in.

many years before that, i had a much smaller, in numerical terms, lump sum, when i quite my one ever relatively good job. based on inflation rate, the real purchasing value of the two amounts were roughly equal.

actually in at least one sense, the smaller amount was larger, as the cost of land has risen at a rate multiple that of the inflation of everything else.

the amounts were 1600 or so, usd, in 1973, and 11000, in 2009.

an addendum to that, i did work in the coin room, in the sub sub basement of a casino one time, no idea the actual value amount that went through there every day. coins were just a commodity, to be estimated by weighing, and then dumped into coin wrapping machines and the rolls of coins they made to be stacked in open sided tin boxes and warehoused. i guess you could call the whole sub-sub basement area a kind of vault.

 

After decades working retail management, they are just pieces of paper to me...


Helpful tip:

when counting large sums of money, don't count it like 20-40-60, you will always fuck up.
Just count the number of bills and multiply by the denomination.
Much faster and more accurate.

 

i have no idea. never an obscenely huge amount, and i never really paid that much attention to the smaller amounts that i have handled. i spent years in pizza place management, but there was never that much cash at any given time; multiple deposits were made on busy days, and credit cards were always used more than cash anyway.

 

less than 10 grand. probably much less.

 

Maybe $14-$15k. It was mine. I don't worry about carrying money. Nobody knows you have it unless you show it off.

 

less than £500. much less, probably. never been comfortable carrying around large amounts of money. Never had to either.

 

About 15 grand. Key money for an apartment I was splitting with a couple buddies. This was in China, so the largest denomination is worth about $20and it looked like a hell of a lot. Pretty much covered the coffee table.

 

1,000,000 Dominican pesos that I was exchanging for US dollars (about 230,000 US dollars). It wasn't my money though, that was when I used to work for my dad's company and he left the money there so I could exchange it when the guy came with the dollars. I was the worse person to do that, I'm terrible at handling money and any little thing distracts me. It took forever to count it.

 

Somewhere between $10,000 and $20,000 probably. I used to handle the cash and put together the bank deposits when I worked for my dad's business, so I would pretty regularly handle $10,000+ at once.

 

I was always afraid to show off any money. I'd get nervous having a lot on me just because I knew I had it. Always did everything by cheque or through the bank when I could.

 

25k,30k,33k,32k,14k.
not at the same time tho

 

When our mechanic shop burned down, I got my portion in cash, 275k. That was because he was closing that shop down and opening another which I bought back into being family owned.

Just today, A friend called and needed a favor, Asked if I could make a deposit for him because he wouldn't make it in time and didn't want to hold 50k.
I got the account # and cash, Went and did that, Few other errands and met him around 5pm to give him the deposit slip which he never asked to get or even cared to see.

 

When I was younger it was a status symbol to carry around large wads of cash. At the most maybe I had $1000.00 dollars in twenties and fifties. – It wasn't much but oh, it felt good.

Never had that same feeling even carrying two credit cards with limits of 32,000 & 24,000 dollars respectively.


Hotwater

 

A bank cheque of $487,500 of our mortgage.

 

Cash... Not too much.

Wrote some big checks when buying a house though. They were considered "Cash sales"... No mortgage.