How much cash do you keep in your home? In your car?

[Anonymous]

I feel like we are constantly running through our small stash of cash for delivery tips, take-out and tips, last-minute daycare teacher gifts, birthday gifts for younger cousins, etc. Clearly we don't keep enough cash on hand, but obviously we don't want too much laying around.

Ditto with car--how much do you keep in your car for the rare times a gas station only takes cash, or to tip a tow truck driver, or cash-only parking fees, etc.?

[Anonymous]

On average, there may be $20 stashed somewhere in the house and whatever change DH throws in the cup holder in the car. I rarely have any cash on me.

[Anonymous]

We blow through our cash like the wind. If I start the week with $70, I'll be down to nothing by Friday. I'll spend it on gas for the car, pick up lunch for the kids at the drive thru, maybe buy Starbuck's when I'm out and about...

I have loose change in my purse. That's about the extent of my cash.

[Anonymous]

We keep around $500 in our safe for emergencies. We try not to touch that so its always available. DH and I rarely have much cash in our wallet and have been known to borrow some cash from my daughters piggy bank to pay the babysitter.

[Anonymous]

None in the car, don't want it stolen

Keep about $40 in wallet and about $50 at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We keep around $500 in our safe for emergencies. We try not to touch that so its always available. DH and I rarely have much cash in our wallet and have been known to borrow some cash from my daughters piggy bank to pay the babysitter.

Our babysitter asked me if I would Venmo her payment and I could have kissed her. She is great with the kids and not having to pay her in actual cash makes her even better.

[Anonymous]

I don't keep cash in my car but there is probably several dollars in change in there. My wallet ranges between no cash and maybe $60 tops, but mostly none. Right now at home I have about $150 in $5s and $1s to pay my kids' weekly allowance. When we were using more babysitter's, I'd try to keep a couple hundred in $20s to pay babysitters. When we go on vacation, we will take out $300 in cash, but at home, we just pretty much always use credit or debit cards. Tips always added to the credit card. Never have given a cash gift--a last minute gift would be running to CVS for a gift card or even emailing a gift card. I don't go to no name gas stations so never came across one that doesn't take credit cards. Even Starbucks, I just pay with my app.

[Anonymous]

None in this country's currency.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much 0. Maybe $10 and some loose change here and there. Nothing to get excited about.

[Anonymous]

Between $100 and $200 in my wallet.

[Anonymous]

Only quarters in my car, for meters and gym lockers. I don't think I've ever encountered a cash-only garage, nor would I think to tip the AAA driver.
I try to keep at least $40 in my wallet but currently I'm out.

I have a $20 bill in my office "go bag" for emergencies and there's some in the house safe.

We don't do a lot of cash tipping (or delivery). For gifts, I wouldn't use cash.

[Anonymous]

No cash at the house;
Rarely cash on my person;
Change/quarters in the car for meters (although usually charge that too - only use the coins if a quick in and out).

Plastic for everything, travel on the points!

[Anonymous]

Almost no cash anywhere

[Anonymous]

Wow, I feel strange if we have less than 1k on hand for emergencies at the house and always $20 on my person if I need it.
If we ever dip into it for a tip or quick cash outing I replenish immediately.

[Anonymous]

$20 in car console, $100 in glove box (tucked in the manual), $100 in smallish bills in an envelope in the kitchen, and a couple hundred under the mattress.

I'd rather have it and not need it than the opposite.