Somebody left a Cash Withdrawal receipt sticking out of the ATM in the local Morrisons. £86,398 in their account...

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I'm a few miles from Glasgow. Nobody can tell me that wasn't done deliberately to elicit envy.... Well, it worked. I could really do with just the £398 right now, nevermind the £80 Grand.....😆

Maybe they’re moving house and temporarily moved the deposit in there

people are so judgy

Well I for one am very jealous. Living month to month on minimum wage at 54 sucks.

I'm now convinced this site's nothing more than a giant Joy Vacuum. Half the people on here are either badly constipated or dangerously in need of a good seeing to...😆😂

exactly, I don't get cash out very often, and if I do on the odd occasion, I don't ask for a receipt. Not that I have 80k in my bank account (I wish) but leaving bank details behind is a very risky business.

I hear you and I'm 58.

As someone who sadly lives in OD..what a lovely amount to have 😍

I'm sure they didn't leave it to make you jealous. Why would anyone do that? It was probably an oversight.
The money could have just been transferred into their bank temporarily for a house deposit. I doubt they keep that sort of money in their current account normally
But in any case it's no one else's business.

My late father had similar sums in his current accounts. In the end they were writing to him asking if he’d like to do something else with his money…

My other non main account alerts me instantly when a transaction has been made which I really like. My main one only gives me a balance update once a week 🙄

Yes I get that alert too once a week but my other bank of Scotland account sends me a notification as soon as a transaction is made which I really like. Don't know why TSB doesn't have this feature as it's really useful and would help massively with fraud etc. I'll be switching from them as soon as I redo my mortgage.

That's what I was thinking!

I hate to admit to this but we do.

Husband inherited some money. We gave our children each 10%, paid a few bills and were still left with 250K. He refuses to deal with it. Doesn't want to pay the taxes on the interest it would earn. I've decided when a nice little bungalow comes up nearby, it's being bought. It's in joint chequing.

I think after years of living payday to payday it gives him a feeling of control and that he can buy what he wants, when he wants.

That person was lucky to actually get a receipt never mind leaving it behind.

My local ATM rarely gives receipts even if it asks you if you would like one.

This.
Frequent with property dealings, if nothing else.

When my parents very kindly gave me £5k to purchase my first car, I delayed car-hunting for a few weeks because I loved looking at the balance anytime I passed an ATM.

There can be lots of reason someone might temporarily have that sort of money in there current account. I recently had a large amount in mine to pay a deposit, you can’t transfer money from savings accounts etc to an external account.

Someone with plenty of money.

Even more reasons out there, some of which don’t even necessarily mean that the money really belongs to the account holder.

A self employed person may owe a huge amount of that in overheads. It could all be to pay a huge tax bill. We have no idea.

One thing I learnt from self employment is that people who are not self employed can’t get their heads round the concept of earning money which is not really, in large part, yours! It’s the turnover of a business, not personal spends.

I digress slightly….

In a nutshell, OP has no reason to be jealous.

Please can you explain to this really financially dumb person why its not a good idea to do that? Lol 😂

They shouldn’t keep it in their current account. Better in ISAs or a savings account. I never, after bill paying day, leave more than £50 in my current account.

More easily scammed. No interest. 👍

Yes there are, for example when I moved house there was an awful lot of money in my current account for a very short period of time, which had no reflection on my financial status whatsoever (although it even prompted my bank to give me a "high net worth" account which I totally didn't deserve!)

Why do people always have to make up a reason for it as if it’s an anomaly that needs to be explained? Lots of people have lots of money. Having 80k isn’t unusual. Having it all in your current account isn’t best practice but also isn’t unusual.

Plenty of people. Especially older people who just want it all on one place to keep things simple.

There are no bank details on the receipts.