brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
My wife and I each take a hundred a week in cash.
Carrying cash.
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Honestly the main reason I don't carry cash is I see it as free money. What I mean is it's not in my checking account so it's not affecting any bills I'm paying. So I spend it on stupid 
like its free money.
like its free money.
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Interesting to see the difference. I just checked and I still have 18 from last Friday. Granted I can't remember the last time I bought lunch on the route. We spend about 150-200 a week on groceries which goes on the Amex (3% back up to 6k yr, no annual fee) and another card for the 2% on gas and resurants which we pay off weekly.
Wife is a stay at home mom and really doesn't use her 20 either. Think she bought a purse off a garage sale site with some of her weeks money she saved up. I really can't think of a time when we ever use cash anymore, even all of our bills are set up on auto pay to our credit cards.
rod
Retired 23 years
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Curious as to what you guys spend 200 a week on between you and your wives.
Cementups
Box Monkey
Nunya
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Just asking as everyone I know is either broke and can't take 100's or tight like myself.
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Yes, a lot. Another quote of the day; "Now that we make more I can work even less. It's amazing how much you bring home working two days a week" -a guy that panicked when he didn't get an option day put in so his electricity was going to get cut off.Sounds like you know people that are bad with money then
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
One of my best friends husbands is like this. She just passed her CPA exam and he's bragging about how he doesn't have to work anymore because she is gonna make so much more. Lets just say she has other plans.
retiredTxfeeder
cap'n crunch
When I was a package driver, the first thing I did when I got to my area was take my wallet out of my back pocket and stick it on the top shelf behind the bulkhead. Keep from riding on it and maybe popping out of your pocket, plus easier on your sweating butt. I always took $100.00/week for my allowance. Kept a couple of hundred in my "rathole" hidden in my wallet, which my wife was not allowed to go through.
oldngray
nowhere special
I carried wallet in back pocket until I got sciatic nerve trouble, then it definitely make a difference so quit doing it.
oldngray
nowhere special
No coin purse?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
I take out $60 every Friday and that is my spending money for the week.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
Good question. It does seem to disappear. We have earned the right to wine and dine after 30 years.
Tell the truth. $180 for the wife and $20 for you!
rod
Retired 23 years
Well there is going for a beer with the guys about 3 times a week and grabbing a burger while out and about just about every day. I don't know--it just seems to disappear. At least I'm not wasting it.
Besides if I don't spend it my Son-in-law will get to when we die and there is no reason for him to have more fun on Earth in his time than I did during mine.
I left the county fair a lot of times with 3k+. No safe, cash stuffed in a paper bag and buried in the packages.
