Would You Use A $500 Bill?

[Mojotronica]

The trick is to get one $500 bill and put it on the outside of your wad of $1s and $5s. The ladies love the flash money.

 

[cgannon64]

My grandma says put the big bills on the inside of the $1 ones, so theives won't think you're rich.

Hmm...I suppose that reflects the generation gap.

 

[AVN]

My grandma says put the big bills on the inside of the $1 ones, so theives won't think you're rich.

Hmm...I suppose that reflects the generation gap.

No, that is common sense.


Oops I just realise I'm forty and you are an teenager.
So maybe there is a generation gap here...

 

[cgannon64]

Yep.

You old people () hide your $500 bills.

I would feint, wondering why I had a $500 bill.

EDIT: As some comic said: The only thing worse than waking up from an evening of drinking with no money in your pocket is waking up with $1000 in your pocket.

 

[roadrunner23]

Add the $500 bill and do away with the $1, replacing it with the coin. Much cheaper (coins last way longer that bills) and if they just stopped printing them, people would be forced to get used to the coin.

 

[cgannon64]

You live in New Mexico, you might not know this common New York experience:

Put in $10 to the Metrocard machine. Buy your Metrocard. Out comes eight dollar coins to weigh down your pants for the rest of the day.

I hate dollar coins. I like the idea, I hate them in practice.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

I used 500-euro bills when I was in Europe, and I didn't like it one bit.

$500 is just too much money to have in one bill, especially for somebody like me who loses things easily. I just don't feel comfortable with them. With multiple smaller denominations, I can at least hedge my bets; if I lose some bills, the others remain.

 

[Laughing Gull]

yeah. I would. just for my own amusement.

 

[roadrunner23]

eight dollar coins to weigh down your pants for the rest of the day.

too true, but as more and more people use them the inconvenience will decrease. This almost needs another thread, but we ought to do away with those #@@%* pennies too, just round the odd cents up or down to the nearest 5. That will make your pocket a little lighter.

 

[GerrardCapashen]

too true, but as more and more people use them the inconvenience will decrease. This almost needs another thread, but we ought to do away with those #@@%* pennies too, just round the odd cents up or down to the nearest 5. That will make your pocket a little lighter.

If you don't like the pennies, just drop them in the street. Since they're almost worthless, you won't miss them.

Dollar coins on the other hand are worth saving.

 

[Perfection]

T'is a joke, right?

Nope, It happened, the volume of it wasn't too much, maybe 1/3 of a water jug.

 

[Perfection]

If you don't like the pennies, just drop them in the street.

Hey, I make about 15 cents a day from dropped coins, I like them!

 

[GerrardCapashen]

Hey, I make about 15 cents a day from dropped coins, I like them!

Me too. Why do you think I was encouraging him to drop them?

 

[sabo]

I would go into McDonalds and buy a hamburger and coke with it, then when I couldn't get change for it I would get it for free.

 

[GerrardCapashen]

I would go into McDonalds and buy a hamburger and coke with it, then when I couldn't get change for it I would get it for free.

Most places like that have little signs saying "We do not accept bill of denominations above $20, sorry for the inconvenience."

 

[Smidlee]

I would go into McDonalds and buy a hamburger and coke with it, then when I couldn't get change for it I would get it for free.

you would be surprise how much one McDonalds would bring in a day. I doubt they would have no problem cashing it if they choose to.

 

[cgannon64]

too true, but as more and more people use them the inconvenience will decrease. This almost needs another thread, but we ought to do away with those #@@%* pennies too, just round the odd cents up or down to the nearest 5. That will make your pocket a little lighter.

The inconvience won't decrease, it will just become acceptable! Which is unacceptable!

 

[Tomoyo]

In my school cafeteria no such rule exists...

One kid paid with a $100 dollar bill once, but they didn't have room in the cash register. He did get change though.

Note: He was buying $1 worth of food.

 

[The Yankee]

If I ever have 500 dollars, sure, why not? We should resurrect the $100,000 bill as well.

 

[Loaf Warden]

My grandma says put the big bills on the inside of the $1 ones, so theives won't think you're rich.

Hmm...I suppose that reflects the generation gap.

I'm 23, and I do that. It won't stop a really determined criminal, but my theory is that a casual pickpocket will be less inclined to risk stealing from you if it looks like all you have is a small wad of ones. If they don't see the twenty on the inside. . . .

As for the question of the thread itself, it all depends. Are we talking about using a five hundred dollar bill now, with the value of the dollar where it currently is? If so, then I'd only use them to pay my rent. In the future, though, I imagine they will not only become common, but also less of a big deal, value-wise. With inflation as it is, sooner or later five hundred dollars just won't seem like all that much money.