Kristi Noem’s bag

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think most people walk around with 3k in cash. But, I can think of 2 occasions that I've had that or more just this year. Also, there are reasons why I may carry over a thousand. For example, if I dont want to leave it in a hotel room.

What actual reasons? I find this so odd. Are you a boomer who cannot figure out Venmo or Zelle?

No, I just sometimes do business with people who prefer cash. They are legitimate businesses (think landscaping, hiring party bus, cleaning services, etc). I don't know if they are legitimate tax filers, but they are legitimate businesses. Also, if I'm going to an estate sale or something similar, I will bring several thousand dollars because cash is king if you have to compete with another buyer. I'm a millennial.

when was the last Easter Day estate sale?

I guess this needs to be clarified: I am not Kristi Noem. I am answering a question about specific situations in which I carry thousands in cash.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very strange. Anyone carrying $3000 in their purse in 2025 is very odd. I can only think of - it's a bribe; she has a drug problem; she's a prostitute; or she's paranoid and has a mental illness.

I’m none of those things and have $3k or so in cash on me regularly. There’s $700 in the center console of my car at the moment. Some people just have cash around.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think most people walk around with 3k in cash. But, I can think of 2 occasions that I've had that or more just this year. Also, there are reasons why I may carry over a thousand. For example, if I dont want to leave it in a hotel room.

What actual reasons? I find this so odd. Are you a boomer who cannot figure out Venmo or Zelle?

No, I just sometimes do business with people who prefer cash. They are legitimate businesses (think landscaping, hiring party bus, cleaning services, etc). I don't know if they are legitimate tax filers, but they are legitimate businesses. Also, if I'm going to an estate sale or something similar, I will bring several thousand dollars because cash is king if you have to compete with another buyer. I'm a millennial.

I pay my landscaper and housekeeper in cash as well, but I don’t go out to dinner with my passport and $3k in cash and leave it unattended. I withdraw the cash from the bank, keep it in a safe place at home, and then give it to the landscaper in person. I also pay certain people with checks - contractors, designers, etc. I keep my checkbook in a safe place and write checks one at a time and mail/deliver them. The average person these days carries less than $100 in cash. When I traveled in Japan, I did carry cash around because it’s more of a cash based society than the U.S. Sure, some people carry cash around, but most reasonable people recognize that carrying $3k in cash, a passport, and a bunch of blank checks is not common.

Its not common, but there are legitimate reasons a person may do it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think most people walk around with 3k in cash. But, I can think of 2 occasions that I've had that or more just this year. Also, there are reasons why I may carry over a thousand. For example, if I dont want to leave it in a hotel room.

What actual reasons? I find this so odd. Are you a boomer who cannot figure out Venmo or Zelle?

No, I just sometimes do business with people who prefer cash. They are legitimate businesses (think landscaping, hiring party bus, cleaning services, etc). I don't know if they are legitimate tax filers, but they are legitimate businesses. Also, if I'm going to an estate sale or something similar, I will bring several thousand dollars because cash is king if you have to compete with another buyer. I'm a millennial.

I pay my landscaper and housekeeper in cash as well, but I don’t go out to dinner with my passport and $3k in cash and leave it unattended. I withdraw the cash from the bank, keep it in a safe place at home, and then give it to the landscaper in person. I also pay certain people with checks - contractors, designers, etc. I keep my checkbook in a safe place and write checks one at a time and mail/deliver them. The average person these days carries less than $100 in cash. When I traveled in Japan, I did carry cash around because it’s more of a cash based society than the U.S. Sure, some people carry cash around, but most reasonable people recognize that carrying $3k in cash, a passport, and a bunch of blank checks is not common.

Its not common, but there are legitimate reasons a person may do it.

Yeah, that is what most people are saying. It’s not common, so it’s a point of interest.

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Anonymous wrote:And an LV wallet.

Someone is spendy.

These MAGA flyover state hicks sure do like to wear tacky crap to remind the rubes they’re a higher rung.

What's the reason for all the Californians and New Yorkers who do it?

New Yorkers do it so everyone knows they don’t live in Queens.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think most people walk around with 3k in cash. But, I can think of 2 occasions that I've had that or more just this year. Also, there are reasons why I may carry over a thousand. For example, if I dont want to leave it in a hotel room.

What actual reasons? I find this so odd. Are you a boomer who cannot figure out Venmo or Zelle?

No, I just sometimes do business with people who prefer cash. They are legitimate businesses (think landscaping, hiring party bus, cleaning services, etc). I don't know if they are legitimate tax filers, but they are legitimate businesses. Also, if I'm going to an estate sale or something similar, I will bring several thousand dollars because cash is king if you have to compete with another buyer. I'm a millennial.

I pay my landscaper and housekeeper in cash as well, but I don’t go out to dinner with my passport and $3k in cash and leave it unattended. I withdraw the cash from the bank, keep it in a safe place at home, and then give it to the landscaper in person. I also pay certain people with checks - contractors, designers, etc. I keep my checkbook in a safe place and write checks one at a time and mail/deliver them. The average person these days carries less than $100 in cash. When I traveled in Japan, I did carry cash around because it’s more of a cash based society than the U.S. Sure, some people carry cash around, but most reasonable people recognize that carrying $3k in cash, a passport, and a bunch of blank checks is not common.

Its not common, but there are legitimate reasons a person may do it.

If you want to hit up the parking lot at a gun show.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think most people walk around with 3k in cash. But, I can think of 2 occasions that I've had that or more just this year. Also, there are reasons why I may carry over a thousand. For example, if I dont want to leave it in a hotel room.

What actual reasons? I find this so odd. Are you a boomer who cannot figure out Venmo or Zelle?

No, I just sometimes do business with people who prefer cash. They are legitimate businesses (think landscaping, hiring party bus, cleaning services, etc). I don't know if they are legitimate tax filers, but they are legitimate businesses. Also, if I'm going to an estate sale or something similar, I will bring several thousand dollars because cash is king if you have to compete with another buyer. I'm a millennial.

I pay my landscaper and housekeeper in cash as well, but I don’t go out to dinner with my passport and $3k in cash and leave it unattended. I withdraw the cash from the bank, keep it in a safe place at home, and then give it to the landscaper in person. I also pay certain people with checks - contractors, designers, etc. I keep my checkbook in a safe place and write checks one at a time and mail/deliver them. The average person these days carries less than $100 in cash. When I traveled in Japan, I did carry cash around because it’s more of a cash based society than the U.S. Sure, some people carry cash around, but most reasonable people recognize that carrying $3k in cash, a passport, and a bunch of blank checks is not common.

Its not common, but there are legitimate reasons a person may do it.

Do you know the saying, Nothing good happens after midnight?

Same for having $3k in cash in your purse. Nothing good comes of it

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Anonymous wrote:Word is she is having an affair with one of her aides. Both are married. What do want to bet the cash was for a hotel room.

This sounds very logical to me.

Can you even get a nice hotel room with no credit card these days? We always have to give a card for incidentals even if not used.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very strange. Anyone carrying $3000 in their purse in 2025 is very odd. I can only think of - it's a bribe; she has a drug problem; she's a prostitute; or she's paranoid and has a mental illness.

I’m none of those things and have $3k or so in cash on me regularly. There’s $700 in the center console of my car at the moment. Some people just have cash around.

I have cash in my console too. I also dump the small bills in my bedside table so there’s always a few hundred there. My daughter needed $80 for a field trip so I just opened my draw and got out four $20 bills. Easier than going online to pay. When they come home with a friend I just grab some money from my drawer and give it to them to go eat.

Some people hate dealing with cash but I don’t. All but a couple of bills are autopay and some online shopping is billed. Otherwise I can use cards or cash for anything else and I use cash for the most part.

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Anonymous wrote:Word is she is having an affair with one of her aides. Both are married. What do want to bet the cash was for a hotel room.

This sounds very logical to me.

Can you even get a nice hotel room with no credit card these days? We always have to give a card for incidentals even if not used.

You do need a credit card for a hotel or rent a car or plane tickets and other things. Most cash people also carry cards with them.

I hope maga people turn against her and I hope it comes out that it was a $6,000 handbag. The sensible hardworking people of the Midwest don’t carry cash like that and it would take them weeks to come up with it.

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This mugging never should have happened, there is more to the story.

This thread raises several issues:

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I don’t think losing a purse disqualifies Noem for heading up DHS. She did that all on her own. To me, it’s just an entertaining diversion to distract myself from the cratering economy, measles outbreaks, dissolution of due process, abandonment of millions of lives that were dependent on USAID, impending pandemics, DoD security lapses, assault on education and research, and the general embarrassment about our leadership. I do hope there is something super weird or incriminating in her bag. Like a bunch of stuff she shoplifted, or deviant porn or something.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe she was going to give cash to her kids and grand kids for Easter.

Is this a new tradition? I have never heard of giving cash for Easter. Candy, toys, Easter baskets, yes. Cash, no.

I gave my kids cash for Easter. Hid the money in plastic eggs. They had a blast on the egg hunt.

Me too! But it was a total of like $25 in coins and small bills that I’d found in the laundry or while picking up around the house. Not $3k at a burger joint!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think most people walk around with 3k in cash. But, I can think of 2 occasions that I've had that or more just this year. Also, there are reasons why I may carry over a thousand. For example, if I dont want to leave it in a hotel room.

What actual reasons? I find this so odd. Are you a boomer who cannot figure out Venmo or Zelle?

No, I just sometimes do business with people who prefer cash. They are legitimate businesses (think landscaping, hiring party bus, cleaning services, etc). I don't know if they are legitimate tax filers, but they are legitimate businesses. Also, if I'm going to an estate sale or something similar, I will bring several thousand dollars because cash is king if you have to compete with another buyer. I'm a millennial.

I pay my landscaper and housekeeper in cash as well, but I don’t go out to dinner with my passport and $3k in cash and leave it unattended. I withdraw the cash from the bank, keep it in a safe place at home, and then give it to the landscaper in person. I also pay certain people with checks - contractors, designers, etc. I keep my checkbook in a safe place and write checks one at a time and mail/deliver them. The average person these days carries less than $100 in cash. When I traveled in Japan, I did carry cash around because it’s more of a cash based society than the U.S. Sure, some people carry cash around, but most reasonable people recognize that carrying $3k in cash, a passport, and a bunch of blank checks is not common.

Its not common, but there are legitimate reasons a person may do it.

Yeah, that is what most people are saying. It’s not common, so it’s a point of interest.

+1

Even my house cleaning person has venmo and zelle. Or take a check. I pay service workers who landscape, plumbers, electricians, etc but have yet to come across one who only takes cash. I do not even know the pin number to my debit card since the bank sent me a new one last year. I still find this so odd.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very strange. Anyone carrying $3000 in their purse in 2025 is very odd. I can only think of - it's a bribe; she has a drug problem; she's a prostitute; or she's paranoid and has a mental illness.

I’m none of those things and have $3k or so in cash on me regularly. There’s $700 in the center console of my car at the moment. Some people just have cash around.

That is bizarre and frankly, not smart? People try door handles to rummage through cars. You must be rich to be so cavalier with large amounts of money.