Do you know how much is in your purse / wallet?

Many people live like that downtoearth. I remember many years ago dreading the post coming looking for brown envelopes with final notices..
I realise how fortunate I am and am so thankful. My life is totally different now.

To finish...I know the pension doesn't always cover everything. Perhaps make sure you aren't entitled to anything more.

Thanks Anne,yes, I get all that I am entitled to get,I manage

Not enough!

I tend to pay contactless these days, I generally don't carry a lot of money, but I do like to have some pound coins they are quite necessary for car parks, particularly my local small M&S high street food store. £2 to park there but you get it knocked off your shopping if you spend over a £5. Today I also have a couple of £5 notes which is unusual for me.

Does no one use a parking app ?

I rarely have more than ten pounds in cash in my purse as I use my debit card most of the time.

I did find £1.35 when I cleaned out the filter at the bottom of the washing machine yesterday though.

I think I have about £35 in notes and a few pound coins and a bit of silver ( I put brown coinage in a jar.)

I do Petra. It can be hit and miss, though, as in some places round here you can't get any signal to make it work.

In a few places, it also almost doubles the cost for a short stay e.g. a 50p cash parking ticket becomes a 90p app parking ticket.

It's annoying how there are are so many different apps, though. This area is all Ringo but when I've been staying with my son in London it seems there are almost as many parking apps as car parks.

£20 and a few coins - did have more but had to pay someone earlier. No sooner do I draw some out of the cash machine than it's gone ?

All my money is kept safely in my purse. Sadly, I never have those surprise moments when I find money in a pocket or bag.

I am not too bothered about what is in my purse. The only figure that interests me is the end of month figure on my bank statement and after 60 years of having my own money and living within my income I know instinctively each month if I am pushing against my income limit.

I'm old fashioned enough to want (and need) cash, so I have just been to the ATM for $40.

That will cover my fee for lunch at Communicare; payment to the Paleo bakery which bakes the bread I need and which only takes cash - and $3 for a 'toastie' - if I go to my elders' group today.

It will also be handy to give some to my Homecare lady to go buy a few vegetables and the weekend's milk at the local dairy.
Although I know and trust her, I would not want to pass over my ATM card and PIN to anyone other than my son. I also give her $5 cash towards her petrol costs.

Just looking at that lot it seems I won't have enough in my purse

My Mum used to say, 'money talks - but all mine says is 'goodbye' - how right she was.

does no-one use a parking app?
Don't you have to have one of those clever phones to do that?

Sorry, smart phones

I did find £10 tucked into the side of a handbag which I hadn't used for some time.

I know what i have in notes and pound coins, but not in the smaller coins. Not much though, as my purse is very light at the moment.

£50 as I'm going to Walthamstow market tomorrow to buy fabric.

I like to know exactly what I have in my purse and my bank account. I will not use contactless and do not use a phone app for car parking as has already been pointed out - there are just too many of them! Street markets and window cleaners prefer cash too.

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No cash ever, just plastic. Can barely shut the purse. I weighed it just now. 14oz. ???

That must be a problem when you need to spend a penny Gabriella!

Usually know how much in notes but not change I have been known to find £10 tucked away in there that I'd forgotten. Plus 4 bank cards.
I have a small purse in the car for parking change.

Yes indeed, it would if I ever used outside loos but I don't.
I have a strong bladder. Not even on long haul flights (which I don't do nowadays but last one to Dubai I waited until the stopover in the hotel.
I do have a big red plastic letter M money box from Metro bank which has actual cash in it but, because I have in the past put folded 'plastic notes inside they don't properly fold and I can't get them out unless I break the box. ??

We don’t have a parking app in our town petra it suits them (the LA) better that their parking gestapo can catch people who couldn’t find the correct change.

At the moment £50 in notes and a certain amount of loose change. I took out some cash before going away for the weekend, intending to treat the GC, but we mostly stayed at home. I meant to leave them some spending money, but completely forgot and they weren't pleading poverty for a change.

I`m so thick I don`t even know what an app is! I hope I have guessed correctly as to what`s in my purse, I might need a bit at the GN meet up tomorrow.

I use cards for practically everything, contactless when possible. I used to have to carry change for the bus, but they all take cards now. I like to have some cash for tips and emergencies (no idea what they would be). I’ve just checked whether I actually know how much. I guessed £15 and I’ve got just over £18.50. It’ll last me ages.