I feel so poor.

[Mai72]

You ever go to your banks ATM for a quick withdraw? And, before you put your card into the slot you might notice a receipt hanging out from a previous customer who forget to take it? Well out of curiosity i looked at the receipt.

The balance was a little over $300,000. It wasn't a million, but it's still 6 figures just sitting in his/her checking account. When many people only have a few thousand if they are lucky, anything in the 6 digits is pretty impressive.

 

[John Connor]

Fucker didn't care as evident he/she just left the receipt.

 

[TheVrolok]

Seems kinda silly to have 300k sitting in a plain old checking account.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

90% of the worlds population would look at your checking account the same way. Just a matter of perspective I guess.

 

[KB]

You may be poorer, but you are definitely smarter. Putting $300,000 in a checking account getting 0.1% is dumb.

 

[Exterous]

Seems kinda silly to have 300k sitting in a plain old checking account.

That was my thought as well - unless they were just about to pay cash for a house or something.

 

[ponyo]

90% of the worlds population would look at your checking account the same way. Just a matter of perspective I guess.

This. $300k might seem like lot to you if you're used to seeing $300 or $3,000 in your checking account. But $300k could be petty cash account for someone else and so small amount they don't even care to keep track of. I personally know people like this. They keep over $million in petty checking account.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

You may be poorer, but you are definitely smarter. Putting $300,000 in a checking account getting 0.1% is dumb.

The person probably has Billions of dollars in investment accounts and this was just the petty cash account.

 

[TXHokie]

Seems kinda silly to have 300k sitting in a plain old checking account.

That's like $30 for rich people, not going to care to earn 25 cents of interest. Thread title says it all.

 

[TheVrolok]

That's like $30 for rich people, not going to care to earn 25 cents of interest. Thread title says it all.

Rich people don't become rich by keeping 300k in a checking account. It's even less likely this person is mega rich.

 

[Zeze]

Humble brag if it's true.. because what kind of an idiot keeps 300K is a checking account? You're losing $$ by $500-$750~ EVERY month due to 2-3% inflation.

 

[ctbaars]

Are you sure it wasn't $3.000,00 ?

 

[imported_bman]

Could have just been transferred into their account and they went to the ATM to confirm so. Not unusual to have $300k in a checking account for short periods of time, keeping $300k in a checking account for long periods is unusual for anyone but the rich ($50+ million).

 

[ponyo]

Humble brag if it's true.. because what kind of an idiot keeps 300K is a checking account? You're losing $$ by $500-$750~ EVERY month due to 2-3% inflation.

Kind of idiot with so much money that $500-700 loss every month is meaningless. You guys realize that there are people with so much cash that they pay banks each month to keep and store their cash. Instead of collecting interest from the banks, they pay banks interest to store their cash.

 

[EXCellR8]

i hate when I forget about the extra $300k in my checking account... first world problems

 

[deadlyapp]

A guy I know who's only a few years older than me opened up while we were all drinking one night. He manages the asian market assets for a large firm so he works nights. We found out he has about 2MM in assets. We had no idea.

 

[snoopy7548]

On the flip side, maybe that $300k is all they have to their name and they're 66 years old. You really don't know; you should track them down so you can know, though, then post about it here.

 

[Sonikku]

I have a little under $200 in the bank.

 

[zinfamous]

I don't think anyone has mentioned yet that leaving $300k in a checking account is really dumb.

 

[Sonikku]

But will I get a free ipod?

 

[ponyo]

But will I get a free ipod?

It's probably OP. He's always following scammers and trying to scam his way into wealth.

 

[Kaido]

The balance was a little over $300,000. It wasn't a million, but it's still 6 figures just sitting in his/her checking account. When many people only have a few thousand if they are lucky, anything in the 6 digits is pretty impressive.

Reminds me of a story from a few years back:

https://nypost.com/2011/06/30/atm-receipt-showing-astounding-100m-balance-left-at-hamptons-bank/

Most likely an ATOT baller

 

[eng2d2]

300lk in a checking account in a receipt doesn't say much about the person. It might be impressive to a 25yo and under.

 

[Jaskalas]

300lk in a checking account in a receipt doesn't say much about the person. It might be impressive to a 25yo and under.

Yeah, that's just a casual sum... no big deal, everyone should that a million in the bank.

 

[John Connor]

I feel so poor that I have to wash my Porsche by hand.