Poll: Dudes, how much CASH do you typically carry in your wallet in Thailand?

[Jingthing]

In the poll, choose the baht amount closest to the typical amount of baht you carry in your wallet when out and about in Thailand.

OBVIOUSLY, some days it is less and some days more.

Don't count a day you go the ATM to get out 20K as a typical day of carrying cash UNLESS you do that everyday!

Don't count a day you're traveling to the slums late at night and paranoid.

Don't count a day you're about to buy a sofa with cash.

Just state a rough idea of TYPICAL.

Inspired by this article:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-12/who-carries-around-wads-of-100s-a-pickpockets-guide#r=rss

Quick, how much cash is in your wallet? If you’re like the average American, barely enough for a couple of movie tickets: The median consumer carries just $22.

A handful of people roll bigger. Roughly one in five people carry more than $100. One in twenty carry a pickpocket’s dream—$100 bills—according to a new study by Claire Greene and Scott Schuh of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. They were trying to shed light on some of the biggest mysteries about U.S. currency: Where is it all? And why do certain people carry so much more than everyone else?

Personally I like to carry a fair amount cash ... typically about 2500 though of course that varies widely day to day.

Thanks for playing!

Edited January 13, 2015 by Jingthing

[HooHaa]

i withdraw 5000 baht if i am carrying less than 2.

[Jingthing]

i withdraw 5000 baht if i am carrying less than 2.

That's not the question.

Please focus.

[MrTee]

100tnb, but for you teelak: I'm minted

[HooHaa]

jesus, do the math,

[Jingthing]

jesus, do the math,

Pick a number. Any number.

[puukao]

Off the airport and I'm only here a day, won't that skew the results? How about a median number? Or Mode?

Over a year.......ah......maybe 1,000 in the wallet and 1,000 in a pant pocket, for security. Sometimes I am on a budget and see if I can go the day on 1,000....and sometimes I don't trust the 19 locks on my door and take 100,000.

OK, OK...I select D.

[AYJAYDEE]

a wallet is an invitation to a thief. walking around money is best carried loose in a front shirt or pants pocket.

[tutsiwarrior]

hey...I'm Mr Big Bucks over here...in BKK usually got fees to pay at the embassy for documents and I always get a limo from the hotel to do my business...thb10000 usually when I'm out and about...

but, heh,heh, heh...tutsi is a shufflin' old man inna baseball cap and no one is aware...even the girls outside of the Nana hotel ignore me...

[neverdie]

I don't carry cash, that's what my staff are for.

[eeeya]

I usually withdraw 10k.. then the wife withdraws 10k from me..

"for bills" she says

[Rangsitreppin]

500 Baht is enuff the rest in the green bank

[Jingthing]

I don't like to carry ATM cards or credit cards on me unless I'm going to use them that day. So by carrying about 2500 I know I am likely covered for whatever, unless I have a planned special purchase.

[tutsiwarrior]

tutsi is out and about and sees a laptop that tickled his fancy and ponders: 'the nieces would like that one...'

he then slaps down the plastic and sez: 'gimme two and load up original Windows Professional on both...'

later, the nieces are bored: 'whaddawe need them for? a nice iphone woulda been better...'

tutsi sighs and then logs on to the thaivisa forum...

Edited January 13, 2015 by tutsiwarrior

[ExPratt]

Anything more than 5k in your pocket, if you are going out, is dangerous, There is a possibility you could end up dancing on the table , drinking Pina Coladas throwing 1000bt notes at The Ladies

Edited January 13, 2015 by ExPratt

[ATF]

neverdie, on 14 Jan 2015 - 03:29, said:

I don't carry cash, that's what my staff are for.

Exactly I carry 99 baht for a breakfast and call Mrs.ATF to do her phone banking thing if I need to buy anything or send her to buy it in the first place.

[neverdie]

neverdie, on 14 Jan 2015 - 03:29, said:

I don't carry cash, that's what my staff are for.

Exactly I carry 99 baht for a breakfast and call Mrs.ATF to do her phone banking thing if I need to buy anything or send her to buy it in the first place.

You are so full of it. EVERYTIME we go for breakfast I have to pay because you always claim you forgot your wallet. It really annoys me because I then get touched for 2 baht change instead of 1.

?

[DP25]

Probably around 1000 baht. I only eat and drink in Thai places so it's more than enough to cover the day (several if no drinking) and a night out.

[Bluetongue]

I put 2, but it's not in my wallet which I generally don't carry anywhere, just leave the cash in the back pocket

[i claudius]

Money, i'me not allowed to carry any ,i think its what the wife has tucked away in her mullberry purse in her mullberry bag,

[robblok]

On average 10.000 bt or so top up to 25.000 when it falls below 5.000

[mrtoad]

It really annoys me because I then get touched for 2 baht change instead of 1.

?

That sounds pretty cheap, not sure what the going rate is in Boystown

[neverdie]

It really annoys me because I then get touched for 2 baht change instead of 1.

?

That sounds pretty cheap, not sure what the going rate is in Boystown

Just tell me what rate you were charged last week, it's probably the same rate ?

[krisb]

Do 711 stamps count as currency?

I think they should.

[smokie36]

Three or four thousand typically....but I have way more than that today for some unfathomable reason.

[robblok]

Three or four thousand typically....but I have way more than that today for some unfathomable reason.

Probably just like me you ATM 20k at a time to not having to pay those 180bt all the time.

[DP25]

Three or four thousand typically....but I have way more than that today for some unfathomable reason.

Probably just like me you ATM 20k at a time to not having to pay those 180bt all the time.

I atm 20k at a time too, but I don't carry it around in my wallet. It gets locked up back in the apartment, and I take a little from that as needed.

[Jingthing]

A side issue here is whether people are paying everything or most things in CASH or are using credit/debit cards more. Personally, in Thailand it's all cash for me even very large amount purchases. When I was a tourist I would use cards for hotels though. It does feel very retro using cash so much considering the trend is actually the opposite.

[ivan96822]

Sunday thru Wednesday nights: 1,500 Thb

Thusday thru Saturday: 2,400 Thb

Wallet? Rookie?

"Big" bills, right front pocket.

"Small" bills, left front pocket.

Change? Back pocket or fugget.

[smokie36]

A side issue here is whether people are paying everything or most things in CASH or are using credit/debit cards more. Personally, in Thailand it's all cash for me even very large amount purchases. When I was a tourist I would use cards for hotels though. It does feel very retro using cash so much considering the trend is actually the opposite.

I use cash for everything except hotels....even big restaurant bills.