Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How much cash do you keep on hand?

I keep it buried just off the side of the trail to the outhouse.
Easy to keep an eye on it every day.

A little cash and "I don't need a receipt" to an independent business person usually nets at least the taxes waived.

White Claw... or tall boys? Keep your story straight.

I ain't gonna roll anyone for a Claw...

Claw comes in tall boys too.

Damn...

That is terrifying...

I'm trying not to derail your thread, but damn you make it hard.

It don't matter anyway... stupid thread... that I should never have started.

Nah man, good intents and all that.

BTW, it's still hard.

Cash;
Good afternoon again sir, thanks for the reply and the kind words you've directed my way, I do appreciate it.

You are very much correct in that our world has changed considerably since that 2003 fire and perhaps not always towards betterment.

We, at least up here, are very much dependent upon the ether space for all sorts of things that we were not then or even half way back then.

For instance, our youngest daughter is a high school teacher and the other day the internet went down all over the city she was teaching in - because of the flooding down in the Lower Mainland and Greater Vancouver area.

She was dismayed to learn that her class of Grade 8 students had no clue how to use a text book!!!

Our eldest was telling us about it as they were chatting on the phone about it last night. I'm not sure who is or was more dismayed about it, the teacher, her sister or her parents, you know?

You are also very much correct in that one should have a plan for more than a week and for a fact we've got some contingency plans mapped out that might do for awhile, but I'm fairly certain not anything approaching a year.

As I mentioned to Geno, I tend to be quite skilled at worrying, but much less so about worrying about the correct things somehow.

Thanks again for making me think, for the kind words and all the best to you all this Thanksgiving.

Dwayne

I made my living as a professional gambler at one time. I'm used to carrying cash. I'm also used to the downsides of it, and the precautions that have to be taken. I keep a fair bit in the gun safe but it's not the most valuable thing in there.

In the zero rate environment we've had there's not been much incentive to bank your cash. That may or may not change.

Cash is useful in some situations where you couldn't get it, but only to a point. If things get very bad, the value of cash goes almost to zero.

During natural occurring regional disasters credit / debit and money in checking / bank accounts regardless how much / line of credit is, is typically inaccessible therefore pretty much worthless but cash in hand rules. During a widespread power outage that lasted multiple weeks for many due to a severe ice storm several years back I watched people wanting to buy gasoline / diesel, LP, kerosene, groceries, medicine, etc., etc., get turned down time after time because businesses AND banks / credit unions couldn't process electronic transactions.

As an added suggestion -- also wise to keep some cash in small denominations or else accept the probability of not getting some or any change back.

Good advice in the small denoms

That’s how I roll at yard sales

When I go for some surgery at the hospital, I stuff a bunch of ones in my shoe. Me and my iv pole sneakin out and head to the vending machines. Get me some of them dolly madison rainbow snowballs coconut dusted donuts

Fugg that gray broccoli and unsalted scrambled egg white crap

I try and keep $5K in the safe.

Not for end of times but to snag good deals quickly.

Never bought a dirt bike with ammo like those hillbillies in Oregon.

Lol

So hard that a cat couldn't scratch it?

There still are checks.

Good luck writing a check outside of Pissville USA

Know a guy that had renters that paid cash and some customers that liked to pay cash for a small discount etc. he kept a decent amount around normally.
He kept some around to buy booze my I mean his wife didn’t know about either. If I didn’t, she’d think I he was an alcoholic.

Not cool. Christ sakes Jim. Ouch!

I know of a guy that does that with things he hammers out.

Bet there’s a convenience store somewhere in Canada with a bounced check from Wabi posted on the board of Shame.