What is the most money that you have ever held on your hands, or had in your possession?

Don’t recall, I’m usually so broke I can’t pay attention.

I lost count. But I’m not very good at math.

I feel your pain. Math gives me a migraine.

$6000 cash from selling a motorcycle. Drove straight to the bank and deposited it.

^^how did it feel like?

Like yay I can pay my mortgage!

A couple grand in cash at my wedding, if we’re not counting bank balances.

I wasn’t really thinking about the money, what with it being my wedding and all.

In actual cash was $7500 I had it for buying a a truck a while back.
I wanted to pay real cash for my brand new pick up I just got but the dealer said they couldn’t accept that much cash ,so I paid for it with a bank draft instead.

Back when I started as a timekeeper / payroll clerk in construction there were several times when I made out and paid out cash payrolls of several thousand dollars per week. (It was an interesting puzzle in those days – before the use of desktop computers – to determine what my order to the bank would be in terms of the count of each denomination of bill and coin to make up the pay envelopes exactly. So I not only had “so many thousands”, but I had to have a perfect count of each bill and coin, too.)

After that, I recall buying a used mobile home once for cash, and I think that was $7000, maybe 1980 or so. Since then, I’ve moved retirement savings from one account to another several times – with a check issued to me, for transfer to the new account – but no cash. Those amounts have been, let’s just say, “significantly larger”.

@RedDeerGuy1 What is the most money that you have ever held on your hands, or had in your possession?

Cash or cheque? I guess possession should include the npv of contingent assets, bank accounts, funds under management, real estate, (excluding reversionary benefits to surviving spouses).

One time I was accosted by a robber who demanded, “Give me all your money”.

“What, all of it”, I exclaimed, “Most of it is tied up in property”.

I ended up having to write him a check.

@Pinguidchance I’m thinking cash.

I think the largest sum was R130 000. That is Rand, so in US Dollars 13 000.00. Well then anyway. I had just sold something. It was very unlike me but I had it in a sports bag in the cupboard! It was really nice to just go there and take some when I needed it. Bank costs in SA were MASSIVE. So I decided to use it this way since I wasn’t saving it. It felt like a heist every time!

It was a really nice feeling, for a while anyhow. I wrote this presuming you meant ‘cash on hand’?

In the past I have cashed checks from clients for $5000 to $7000, in order to deposit them in my own account without suffering any fees or delays imposed by banks for doing it in other ways. I think maybe once I had twice that at once from cashing two such checks at the same time, but I don’t remember for sure. Sometimes the bankers would think that wasn’t the best thing to do for one reason or another, and sometimes they offer me a free cashier’s check instead.

My mom was the bookkeeper at my dad’s business. It was clear that things would end poorly so for a few years she would take out about 10K a month. Just 300 or so everyday from the business account so flags weren’t raised. This was a drop in the bucket considering what was made.

So yeah, I have seen a fair amount in a single place.

I won $3,000 on a nickel slot machine once. It wasn’t the largest amount I ever held, but the payout was exciting. He counted it into my hand, while people watched, lights blinking and bells ringing. So, even though I have had larger amounts in hand, that was the most memorable.

If we’re just talking cash, I think it was about $2600, and it was in euros. I was about to take a trip.

For a while I used to keep a private stash for emergencies, just adding a twenty now and then when I could spare one, because sometimes things happen and you have to have something fast. The fund probably topped out around $2000. I was able to produce a quick loan more than once when asked.

Otherwise I’ve never actually seen what looked to me like a large amount of money, other than in a bank teller’s cash drawer.

Around 1990, I bought a car, cash.
Dutch guilders 17.000 (fl. 28 704.20 (€ 13 025.40 – $ 15 351) in 2016)
I had 17 thousand guilder notes in my jeans pocket, and that particular right leg felt electric, all the way to the dealer.

Most cash I have ever had in my hands was $8,000.

There is a famous restaurant in Brooklyn called Peter Luger Steakhouse that only accepts cash. I was there as part of a party of 24. With wine and tip, the total came to well over $6,000.

Cash about $4500.
I use to expedite aircraft engine parts for the company I worked for. In my personal vehicle, a SUV. I have transported up to $1,250,000 in parts and assemblies at one time. We had custom packaging (our plant had the only system to pack them) and the parts were manufactured by another facility. The Materials manager almost had a heart attack when I told I picked up the parts and gave them to the packaging group.
It had been raining freezing rain for over half a day, I had to drive in 4Wheel drive at 20 to 45 MPH on the highway.

I had $4500 cash in my hands once for buying a used car.

The most cash I ever ran through the laundry was about $600.

Gosh, more than once I’ve held in excess of $10,000 in cash in my hands, for the sale of our highend ZTRs. Man, getting from the shop to the bank was an exercise in paranoia.

When we sold the land, the lady who bought it put $17,000 cash down. We were all at the bank in the loan officer’s office. I picked it up and one of the tellers came in and swooped it out of my hands and deposited on the balance of the land loan, about $10,000, and put the rest in my account.

Had a check for $60,000 cut to me, that I immediately turned over to the guy we bought the shop from. :( :( :(.

Largest check was around 250K for the sale of a house I used to own. (now they do electronic transfers; the last two houses I sold the proceeds came as an ACH deposit).

Largest amount of cash was about $6500 ; selling my old Chevette. I got way more than it was worth.

$6500 for a chevette??
I want you to sell my next vehicle.

I have held around $70,000. I worked for a bank and that was our incoming shipment one week. It wasn’t normally that much, but the Ford workers were getting their profit sharing checks that week. The money comes shrink wrapped in plastic, so you really could hold that much money at one time.

In my possession, I think the most I’ve had is $300.

When I was a teller. I had to count $30,000 in drug money, mostl in $20s. My fingers were numb by the time I finished, from the cocaine.

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Fuuuuck.. Now I want cocaine.

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In a round about way, $900,000

Probably about £500 cash, during a time where online bank transfers werem’t available. £1,000 from a business loan for gearing up for the Edinburgh Festival, and running an advertising business there for a few weeks (this was later torpedoed by a dishonourable client, so I had to pay it back by other means). I currently mange a fund of about 4K, but I don’t actually own that myself, and I certainly can’t spend all of it. My job is to earn the fundholder more money, not burn what they had to begin with. If the next startup comes off, the investment range is £5m to £100m, but where it’ll be depends very much on calculations that haven’t been finalised yet, and only a small slice of the eventual profit will be “mine”, not the initial investment.