To wonder if we really need fifty pound notes?

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I ended up with 3 x £50 notes. I had to change one in a bank because some shops didnt have the change. I spent one in Tesco, the self service dont take them (slots too small) so I went to a chashier who got up and left for 10 mins to check it was kosher.

They're a PITA. When I was working in retail, I would handle thousands banking up at the end of the day, rarely was there a fifty.

And money thats in tens of thousands tends to not be real anyway. Numbers on a screen.

So, is there any point of the £50? Sure they're pretty. But they're a pain!

Oh I don't know, I find them handy for tipping the gardener.

I wish someone would tip me fifties.

The tree above werent even for my pocket or my spending >sob

alibaba That's one big tip for just trimming a bush!!!

Apparently a lot of £50 notes end up in bundles of notes stored in safety deposit boxes - by those who need cash with a certain degree of anonimity IYSWIM.

I have loads of 50s bundled up in my safety deposit... oh shit, Beta's onto me...

YANBU, OP. It's just annoying when shops don't accept them.

Psammead - I hear that 'on course' bookmakers often prefer to hold £50 notes as well - should you ever feel the need.

I have forgotten what a fifty pound note looks like!

Oh no. Do they fit in your purse? Are your diamond shoes too tight? Is your champagne too bubbly? Just joking I am. I understand really. Having worked in retail they used to mess up the system I had going on. My mum remembers a time when £20 notes were a rarity and she had trouble spending one that she had one in a social club. She had to get it verified by the police and everything. :o This was in the 70's.

Won not one.

When I was little (maybe seven or eight) my Dad came home with a £50 note that his friend had used as part of the payment for a car (Dad worked in a garage) so that we would know what one looked like. We spent ages looking at it and holding it really carefully.

Only now I'm an adult do I think this was a bit weird and it's probably a good thing his boss didn't know he'd done it My parents were not rich, but certainly comfortable and could have easily got £50 out of the bank to show us if they were that desperate! My Dad is strange sometimes.

have you ever seen the scottish £100 note - even rarer than the £50's

My ex boss accused me of taking foreign notes on purpose (maybe I was stealing the sterling and replacing it with the foreign stuff? Who knows. He was a right tool. Anyway...) I was called into the office to explain myself. It was a Northern Irish £5 note. It was plasticky (don't know if they still are) and looked like toy money, but was sterling nevertheless... this was around 2002. He looked embarrassed but didn't apologise when I pointed out the word sterling to him. He just told me off for not checking with him first. Idiot.

Well if anyone has any £50 notes that they don't want any more, I'll gladly take them off your hands.

When my husband's car was sold, we preferred to have cash rather than a cheque in case it bounced and the buyer arrived with it all in £50 notes. It was so easy to count to check that it was all there - all 200 of them..

YABU. What else would bankers light their cigars with?

actually, the thing about the lady going to check it was kosher is unnecessary (she was unnecessary, i mean)

mainly because £20 notes are the most forfeited of all notes.
£50 are barely forfeited at all (mainly because they're so underused that they're checked very carefully every time)

They are great if you are working as an escort. Thats all one of my mates has in her handbag as thats all the cash her clients have.

YABU

YABU. A £50 note in my wallet rather than five 10s always makes me feel good. :)

Never seen or had one but if did think I'd feel bad spending it and would just frame it

What about the 500 Euro note?

I got £1000 out of my bank to transfer to my business account the other week.
It came in all £50 notes.
I tried to pay it into the automatic machine at my business bank.
It wouldn't accept it.
I can't do transactions over the counter (oh such a great idea ), so I was stuck with this wodge of £50 that I couldn't put in the bank.
It was a horrible feeling.

turns out, it was the new £50 notes and the machine hadn't been reset to recognize them.
seriously, in a bank , months after they were introduced.

Forfeited or forged nickel?

i have only ever seen one and that was from a minted visiting relative... :(

I don't think I've ever actually seen a fifty squid note in the flesh, and I'm a proper adult and everything.

But if there were no £50 notes, what would I use to light my fire

But as an ex-bank type person, they were handy as they took up less space in the safe. Shame no one ever wanted them though!!