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.....😆

Bit weird that you’re examining people’s forgotten cash receipts in that much detail.

And of course they didn’t leave it there to make people jealous ffs.

Bullying? Oh, ffs...

Probably a business account

Oh yes, I forgot to predict the "ffs".

I am one of those terrible people who has all their money in their current account. Mostly because with interest rates what they are, it hardly seemed worth bothering with ISAs or savings accounts. Not worth the brain-strain of setting it all up, IMO. (Note: please do not try to convert me on this!). I am not by any stretch rich.

YMMV.

its probably Ange, making sure the £40k had gone to HMRC.

This

Probably noone will believe me but I have over 40k in my current account and that's the lowest I've had in for a while. My husband has over a million in his as a month ago he received a partial payment relating to the sale of shares. He does need to move that out as it's losing potential interest/growth but we need to decide where it should go. We could send it to our stockbroker but we already have a load with him and need to diversify a bit. I appreciate this a v rare position to be in but it's our reality.

80k isn't what it used to be, I mean sure it's a few bob - but not unreasonable to have in current account.

If it had been £5m, we would have known it was Nige…

I set up my zopa app in a few minutes and it's been worth it particularly as if you open a bank account you get access to a savings pot that gives you 7.10 per cent interest

For a while we had £100,000 in our current account, after selling our flat and waiting to complete the purchase of our house. We aren't rich if that makes you feel better. We might have £2,000 in there at the moment.

We were like that just a few years ago.

Sold our house but were not completing on our new one for several months.
Had left work with a severance package.
Had activated my pension and received my TFLS.

In the space of just a few days our current account had some very large sums passing through it and it was a busy time allocating funds to the correct accounts.

Sadly those days are now a memory and these days our current account looks more normal.

Genuinely, if you think that's bullying then God help you...

It’s under his mattress, as his Coutts account was closed on him.

This made me smile, it really captures the mood on here sometimes.

I have 30000 in mine as I've just transfered it in before transferring it elsewhere! When I sold my house and money went in, I phoned the bank to ask my balance. Just to hear the amount out loud
Then it all went into other accounts.

I've never had 80k in the bank in my entire life. My mum got a lump sum on retirement that she paid into all her working life of around 70k

Lighten up and unclench.

Exactly….the interest rate will be shit! And there’s a greater chance of losing it if the card is cloned/online/contactless fraud.

Oh don't get me wrong, I am not saying it's a normal amount to have - just the amount isn't what it used to be.

I wonder if they were off to buy a deep fried Mars bar and tell the shop to keep the change.

I’m sure you are aware that the vast majority of people don’t have £80k sitting around.
If they did, it would be far more sensible to have it somewhere that it earns decent interest.

In the long term yes, I am just saying with the cost of things nowdays it isn't a silly amount to have in your account for a few weeks.

Very few Scottish chip shops have deep fried mars bars on the menu.