What is the most money you've ever held in your hand?

Bard

Just curious... the conversation came up between myself and a few friends recently, - don't recall why -... anyway... the question was "what is the most money you've ever held in your hand(s)?" (and yes, cheques count)

Most said a couple of grand. One said a bank draft to the value of a house - don't rightly remember. I "won" though, as for me, the most I've ever held in my hands was IR£500,000 - all in bundles of £20 notes. It wasn't mine, - I was working in a security company at the time. The 500 grand was for sorting - I ran it through a machine to check whether it was fit for use in an ATM. Usually, at least 60% of it wasn't...

So... who's next?

Nemici

I used to work for a charity and I counted donations all day long, the money was exchanged for 50 pound notes,

over xmas I counted 24 grand into a large bundle. the temptation was unbelievable but I managed not to succumb and left after the week with a sh*tty 224 quid pay packet.

honesty

Bard

Oh I understand the temptation... the pay was utterly dire in the security company I worked for (less than £160 per week as I recall), and it wouldn't have been unusual for anything between 2 and 5 million pounds in cash to pass through my hands throughout the course of all the seperate jobs I'd go through in a week.

Lucutus

Interesting topic.

An acquaintances lotto winnings cheque. It was over 3 1/4 million euro, she was the only winner that week.

Consequently, I saw none of the winnings, but there was free champagne on the night.

Luc

Gordon

Wow, my mum sold our car for a few grand and she got it in her hands. She and I got the money and threw it into the air and it rained down upon us... like god.

Ahh money rain.

Wolf

Originally posted by Gordon
Wow, my mum sold our car for a few grand and she got it in her hands. She and I got the money and threw it into the air and it rained down upon us... like god.

Ahh money rain.

Ohhhhhhhh sounds like fun. Im going to do that now!


Owwwwwww coins hurt me and im bleeding now


Oh I once had about 35 grand in sterling. Used to work in a Night club and one christmas eve we took in alot and I was the guy collecting it.

ballooba

Held an order in my hands for €120,000 which i had quoted. I had quoted the wrong price. €10,000 the wrong side. :eek:

Needless to say I wasn't employee of the month. Biggest mistake I've made in my life by about €9,960.

Borzoi

jeez, Bard you set the barrier high there.

I think the most cash I ever had was IR£10,000 in cash - all grubby used nores, unfortunately none of it was mine, and I was nervous as hell carrying it around town

Big Chief

ive seen 12,000 sterling before in front of me, but never actually held it or anything.

Most ive had in my actual pocket at one time was €1500, which was the deposit for my old house

seems little in comparison now after looking at the above ^

Bard

Originally posted by Borzoi
jeez, Bard you set the barrier high there.

I might have done, but then Lucutus shoved it up a bunch of notches

uberwolf

I ran a charity this year, we made €51k, i held the cheque for all the photo's

swalsh

hmmm how about €7.58!!!! oh the joys of being a student

DeadBankClerk

IR£2,000,000

had to carry a bank draft from one aib branch to another.
felt so good

Sarky

Just over a grand, after a long summer's work. I envy the lot of you.

Except swalsh. He sounds poor.:p

monument

Of my own money, a few weeks ago about 2,000 for a new pc and a little bit more for the bank.

But the most I would even have held at the once was about 5,000+ at work.

Some day I might see more in my hands, that is if I ever get around to doing the lotto more then three times a year.

mike65

The most I've held in one go was about €3000 but it was, at least all mine!

Mike.

Corega

€995, but it was mine, all mine. That was one year ago, now it's all gone.

Incidently I was moving banks, from TSB to the EBS cos' TSB were crap.

Cake Fiend

I walked around town with a grand in my pocket on my way to get clothes.

TBH it shouldn't count if it's not your own money, but during the Euro changeover I went around sorting out floats in some Net House stores with serious amounts of cash (party in coins).

Wolf

Originally posted by Sico
I walked around town with a grand in my pocket on my way to get clothes.

TBH it shouldn't count if it's not your own money, but during the Euro changeover I went around sorting out floats in some Net House stores with serious amounts of cash (party in coins).

You spent a grand on clothes?

Hmm, couldnt have told.....;)

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_sheep

Ive heald around 20,000 going to the bank after christmas and new years season where i worked for a while.

In my own money about 2,500 afaik.

Mossy Monk

just under £150,000 when i used to work in a bank

my own money, £5,250

Moriarty

About £680,000, bringing cheques etc to a bank during a summer job.

<edit: my own money... oooooo, about €1500>

BabyEater

It was about £5500 as i was buying me car.

Dun

£15,000 at work in notes of all kinds, and of my own, about £2,000 which I had for not time at all Mind you got me puter out of it (which of course is now worth about 1/5 of that :rolleyes:)

Big Chief

Originally posted by Sico
TBH it shouldn't count if it's not your own money,

my thoughts exactly

Jim

in cash about e1,000

in work i had a check for 2.7million [lost it aswell, turned up in the end ]

Victor

My own: about £1,000
College rag ball: about £4,000
Billed client: £750,000 (soemthing felt righteous about that).

daveg

Originally posted by Lucutus
Interesting topic.

An acquaintances lotto winnings cheque. It was over 3 1/4 million euro, she was the only winner that week.

Consequently, I saw none of the winnings, but there was free champagne on the night.

Luc

chuffin hell... I think we have a winnner.

Me.. not much... about 5000 for a car... seems feck all now.

Sundy

i drooled over a cheque for 1/4 of a million once! pity it wasnt mine:mad:

oeNeo

£3000 in 20's and £3000 in a cheque, £6000 in total. That was my Dad's to pay for our conservatory or something I think.

Most money I've had for myself is €1200 in a cheque.

smiles

Held something like £500,000 in shreaded old bank notes before, they're compressed into blocks and used as fuel for fires.... mental stuff.

<< Fio >>

TomTom

Of my own about 1,000 after i was paid for a job.
I held about 15,000 in cash belong to my brother. I felt week at the knees.
I once had 8,000 takings in my pocket, my mother have to me to mind for the night. Forgot about it and wandered down to another pub for a pint. About half way through it I remembered and got wofull parionid that everyone knew I had it.

ballooba

LOL TomTom. I get worried even carrying €1000 down to the bank. Just in case someone knows when im bringing it in. Thats why we deal in bank transfers only now.

amp

One of the punters I was dropping some PC's off to paid in cash. 10,000 in cash. I'm so glad that doesn't happen in my new work.
I never see the cash, so I don't get worried about getting robbed or flying off to Mexico or something.

Rabies

a few years ago had about £20,000 in my hands.... felt really good.... wasn't mine
most i had in my hand that was mine is about €2000 or so

Duffman

Hrm... I carried a few grand in cash in a bucket into an AIB a few weeks ago, school-related fundraising thing...

Had never lodged so much money before, mostly notes but a few hundred euro in coins too...

The cashier counted it... sorted the coins into bags etc... had almost finished when she stopped suddenly and scowled at me... "This bag.... This bag is one cent short..." She made me pay up too... :rolleyes:

Neil3030

Hmmmmm.... do coupons count?

Cos i used to work in "THE COUPON PLACE".

Held a bag with over €100,000 worth once.

TomTom

Originally posted by DeadBankClerk
IR£2,000,000

had to carry a bank draft from one aib branch to another.
felt so good

Going by your name, I would never let you carry a draft for that much.

Silverfish

Cheque : 4.5 million Irish pounds (not mine)

Cash : 250,000 Irish pounds (not mine), which I had to walk up three streets with. I felt like I had a spotlight on me with a target on my back.

Cash: 5,000 (Mine).

Monty - the one and only

hmm of my own money...about $42,000 when buying an appartment:)

£13,000 in an old job quite a few years ago

dendenz

about 500 E note, you could tell I am a student compared to all u rich lads !

Sangre

Originally posted by Neil3030
Hmmmmm.... do coupons count?

Cos i used to work in "THE COUPON PLACE".

Held a bag with over €100,000 worth once.

"Damn chicken gave me a bad coupon"

Neil3030

lol

Duffman

Originally posted by Sangre


"Damn chicken gave me a bad coupon"

lol, best episode evar!

Barry Aldwell

One lotto cheque for €953,840. My parents', but I saw a lot of it

Duffman

I hate you! :mad:

Just wondering how exactly you reacted to the news that you had won?

Selik

My own money in bank draft form - €202,000 for an apartment.
In Cash - €10,000 for a car...

thedrowner

in cash about 2 grand when i was sorting out the wages in an old job

took out 970 in bankdraft this year
scary