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mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
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I go to my local bank every few weeks and take out $300 from the ATM to carry me and the wife over for the next few weeks.
Today for the first time ever....it spits out four $50 dollar bills and five $20s!
Maybe inflation is here!
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    derrybderryb Posts: 38,603 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I go to my local bank every few weeks and take out $300 from the ATM to carry me and the wife over for the next few weeks.
    Today for the first time ever....it spits out four $50 dollar bills and five $20s!
    Maybe inflation is here! >>


    Bank's getting rid of them while they can

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    OPAOPA Posts: 17,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wish they would spit out $100's instead of $20. I'm tired of walking into the bank to have them exchanged. FYI, most Casino's, depending on the size of your withdrawal, will spit out $100 bills through their ATM's.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
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    gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    I will NOT use a $50 bill!
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,654 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I will NOT use a $50 bill! >>



    For what reason?
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    chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    back in the 1990s,I was a Maine telephone lineman suddenly sent to Boston after hurricane Gloria to repair storm damage.I had 2 $50 bills in my wallet and no one would touch them(not even the hotel we stayed in) worked 15 hour days and nearly starved image
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    nibannynibanny Posts: 2,761 ✭
    I like $50's and $100's. Everytime we have guests from Italy I ask them for their bills and give the $20's in return.
    The ones they get from the bank are brand new!
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,735 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>back in the 1990s,I was a Maine telephone lineman suddenly sent to Boston after hurricane Gloria to repair storm damage.I had 2 $50 bills in my wallet and no one would touch them(not even the hotel we stayed in) worked 15 hour days and nearly starved image >>



    I don't want anything larger that $20 bills. Too many businesses won't take the larger bills because of the fear of getting stuck with a counterfeit.

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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 24,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've been using $50s, but I really try to avoid using $100s.
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,654 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've been using $50s, but I really try to avoid using $100s. >>



    Never ever had a problem with either $50s or $100s. In fact a number of years ago it was stated that $50s and $100s were popular because $20s were too small to buy a lot of things. It takes more than a $50 to even fill most cars with gas these days. A lot of places don't care for them, because they suck up too much change.
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,654 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I go to my local bank every few weeks and take out $300 from the ATM to carry me and the wife over for the next few weeks.
    Today for the first time ever....it spits out four $50 dollar bills and five $20s!
    Maybe inflation is here! >>


    Bank's getting rid of them while they can >>



    For what reason?
    theknowitalltroll;
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I use fifties and hundreds frequently....never had a problem. Although I have noticed some small shops have signs posted that they will not take them. Cheers, RickO
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    OPAOPA Posts: 17,166 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I use fifties and hundreds frequently....never had a problem. Although I have noticed some small shops have signs posted that they will not take them. Cheers, RickO >>



    Likewise...

    I don't patronage those small mom & pop shops that are behind the curve by not accepting larger bills and in most cases, they don't communicate in English that I can understand.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,654 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I use fifties and hundreds frequently....never had a problem. Although I have noticed some small shops have signs posted that they will not take them. Cheers, RickO >>



    Likewise...

    I don't patronage those small mom & pop shops that are behind the curve by not accepting larger bills and in most cases, they don't communicate in English that I can understand. >>



    That means that they have to keep a lot of extra change when people pay for $10 worth of stuff with big bills. Also means that they lose more in a robbery and are also more likely to get robbed. Because of reward points, I use a credit card as much as I can.
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,963 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I will NOT use a $50 bill! >>

    id rather use a 50 then a 100. more and more places wont take them
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    RedneckHBRedneckHB Posts: 20,233 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think I have ever had anyone refuse a $50 bill.
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,146 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I keep a few hundred dollars in small bills ($20 and under) in my wallet and a few hundred dollars worth of $50's in my back pocket for walking around money.
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think we'd be going back to the $500 bill if money laundering and the drug trade wasn't such a huge issue.
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    LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I keep a few hundred dollars in small bills ($20 and under) in my wallet and a few hundred dollars worth of $50's in my back pocket for walking around money. >>


    Good to know, Capt! Remind me to "bump" into you someday imageimage


    << <i>I will NOT use a $50 bill! >>


    I'll take them off your hands, anytime image


    << <i>Everytime we have guests from Italy I ask them for their bills and give the $20's in return.
    The ones they get from the bank are brand new! >>


    Trading a couple $20's in return for a crisp $50 sounds like a great deal to me! image
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    fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭
    That's great news. I hate getting a wad of $20's from an ATM. I use $50's and $100's all the time. Never had a problem.
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    roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,374 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've never had a problem either with the larger bills. But my emergency cash stash is made up of $20's and lower.
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    LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
    You know, counterfeit detection is fairly easy with a special marker-pen and a light source. I don't think it's the reason $50 and $100 are unfavorable.

    I'm going with "less bills in the register." How many times have you walked into a store and the sign in the window warns "manager never has more than $20" to deter crime ...
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    derrybderryb Posts: 38,603 ✭✭✭✭✭
    don't the newer large bills have something in them that can be detected when carried in large quantites? Maybe just a conspiracy theory and we all know I don't believe in those.

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

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    OPAOPA Posts: 17,166 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>don't the newer large bills have something in them that can be detected when carried in large quantites? Maybe just a conspiracy theory and we all know I don't believe in those. >>



    They sure do...it's normally referred to as a bulging front pocket or fat stomachimage
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
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    LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭


    << <i>They sure do...it's normally referred to as a bulging front pocket or fat stomachimage >>


    Funny I always thought that was the guys who carry a hundred Washingtons in place of large bills ...
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