How much money do you have lying around at home?

[TheKitchenWitch]

Just that really.
I’m getting ready for holiday and so am putting together what we have left in relevant currency from last year, and I’ve just come across quite a few euro (we are not in U.K.) which I did not realise were there.
I feel slightly like I’ve won the lottery. It’s going into a rainy day tin.

Nothing other than what's in my purse - about £20 and some change.

I could probably scrape together about a tenner in Stirling and €20 in assorted coins!

I have £100 in coins (our Xmas fund which we counted out the other day, had run out of ways to keep the 5yo entertained )

£1k in cash that needs to be banked but I haven't got round to it yet.

DP probably has a few hundred about as well as he was just paid cash for a job.

None I don’t think. Maybe a tenner in my purse. We pay our window cleaner online and can’t think of any other reason I’d need cash at home.

I have been saving since giving up smoking and have enough cash to pay for my funeral. Either that or it would pay 50% towards a trip to Dignitas if I started to get dementia. Both so cheerful

I pay groceries etc with ec card but I can’t imagine not using any cash at all. There’s so many small amounts here and there, and I get most of our fruit and veg from farm stalls which only do cash.

I have an envelope with £20 in somewhere, I put it away a few years ago with the aim of saving for a holiday in cash, I never bothered again and can’t remember where I put it! Other than that, maybe £2 in my purse and a few penny’s in DDs piggy bank!

£20 in my purse which is a rarity as I use my card for most things.

A jar full of 2ps so no idea how much is in there.

$2 (US)

10 Australian cents; 2 Danish krone; 1 Swedish krona: all of which look like a 10p but aren't so I keep them in a jar in the kitchen so I don't try to spend them accidentally.

Yikes. A LOT more than anyone so far. But I'm a bit of a strange "under the mattress" sort of saver.

Thousands basically.

Very little. £50 maybe? Rarely use cash for anything. I normally have £100 in the car fo riding lessons, activities etc.

Weirdly I have about £3000 in foreign notes. They're not laying about however, they have been lovingly collected since I was a teenager and are framed and displayed (not downstairs for others to see/steal). In £ probably about £30. I pay everything by card and rarely have any cash.

I've got just over £1. Haven't been to the cash machine in weeks and tend to use contactless out and about.

We don't keep UK cash lying around the house and there's no way any can fall down the sofa but DP and I will usually have about £50 between us in our respective wallets. We use credit cards for most things (pay off in full every month) but there's always the odd small shop or parking machine that needs actual money and we are of the generation brought up to believe that only twats and students pay for anything under a fiver with a card - that's a hard habit to break.

There will also be a few euros with our passports from our last holiday, that we just save for the next one (we go to euroland at least 3-4 times per year for holidays or work) and a handful of shrapnel from a non euro country that I visit for work occasionally. Only other coinage is a couple of old 50 pence pieces I found the other day, they are giant.

Often nothing at all. Although my toddler has a piggy bank full of notes from grandparents that I keep meaning to bank properly.

Sometimes we'll have £100 in cash but I'd prefer it to be in the bank.

Nothing. Not a penny.

I have £160 in 2 envelopes for the next 2 weeks shopping plus about £600 saved in a jar under my bed x

I've got £40 in my purse. DH has a large coca cola money bottle filled with £2 coins. I mostly use contactless when I'm out. Also have a jar in the kitchen that I keep £50 in for emergencies.

Recently found about 300 Polish zloty in a purse I used last year... I probably should get it exchanged back but I feel like keeping it guarantees I'll go back someday

About £5k under the mattress.

£560 in pound coins in one of those huge digital money boxes.

£50 I've saved towards uniforms - to be spent tomorrow.

Nothing in my purse, and about £15 in coppers and 5p's.

I don't think there's anything else around.

Not RTFT but those of you with large sums of cash around - do you not worry about being burgled? They always lift mattresses and look in kitchen jars for cash (I know this to my cost - was burgled many years ago - no money around, thankfully). Children’s money boxes are also a prime target for drugs cash.

$706. $700 is in our emergency bug out bag and $6 in coins for the last 3 Gold Coin donation days of the year at the high school.

From next year they’ll just be the $700 as DD2 is leaving school.

Around one thousand in notes as an emergency stash and usually around two hundred in the loose change pot. I also have forty pounds plus change as an emergency stash in my car. I hate the thought of not having some money available if needed.

I keep £200, €200 and $200 in cash in the house. The £ is for emergency and the others are because dh and i both travel for work.

A few hundred, annoyingly so because my tenant always pays rent about 4 weeks at a time (in arrears) and always in cash. He's not a criminal but a worker who gets paid by cheque.
I absolutely declare this rent to the taxman and it's annoying because my bills get paid from my bank account not my pocket full of notes.
He says it's too hard for him to learn to do internet banking and we both live 70kms from a bank.