Road Trip; Large Cash Needs
Dougster
Hey guys. Planning a big road trip for the fall with many SC visits along with some to the NV brothels. I am going to budget $10,000 to spend on whores which will a very nice daily allowance.
How do you guys deal with large cash needs when doing road trips? Options I'm considering are :
- just take the cash out right at the start; obvious disadvantage is that a wad of Benjamin's for that amount is pretty thick so got to always worry that it's secure
- traveller's checks; but do they still make these?
- get my ATM limit bumped up and go for ten or whatever withdrawals as needed
Sort of leaning towards the last, but want to see if any fellow addicts had some creative ideas for this.
How do you guys deal with large cash needs when doing road trips? Options I'm considering are :
- just take the cash out right at the start; obvious disadvantage is that a wad of Benjamin's for that amount is pretty thick so got to always worry that it's secure
- traveller's checks; but do they still make these?
- get my ATM limit bumped up and go for ten or whatever withdrawals as needed
Sort of leaning towards the last, but want to see if any fellow addicts had some creative ideas for this.
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@Dougster: Carrying large amounts of cash, especially that much, while traveling, can be unwise. Completely aside from the risk of robbery, and while not precisely illegal, LE has been known to confiscate large sums on suspicion that you are a drug dealer who's just sold or about to make a buy. And despite the fact that it isn't illegal to carry that much cash, you'll have a devil of a time getting it back. Seems like Vegas ought to be less concerned about that, though, given how much cash there is flowing there.
I'd go with getting your ATM limit upped (which might be a tough sell, since *banks* seem to care about drug dealers now, too, and will report large cash withdrawals), or one of those "debit" cards you can get at Wal-Mart/Target/etc and put cash on. Still won't help with cash needs, but might reduce the amount of cash you actually need to carry. You'd still have to suck up the cash advance fees if you wanted to get cash out of it, of course.
Traveler's checks seem to be going out of style. Last time I tried to use them, about 10 years ago, fewer places were taking them, and virtually nobody wanted to just cash one without my buying something that was at least 25% of the face value of the check.
Sadly, Nevada doesn't have reciprocity with Kentucky's concealed carry permit, otherwise I'd offer to be your bodyguard. For a nominal fee, of course.
As for following your financial advice. You are right I would not even have to worry about this if I did because your advice to short treasuries would have wiped me out on margin calls!
Secondly, you still have to use credit cards.
As for your approach, sounds like similar problems to your SC approach - naive in trusting your broker's security claims. Also cavalier like investment approach is. Then again, my average trade size is about 10x yours, so maybe it just doesn't matter to you as much.
As for using a CC outside a strip club is a good idea since you can collect air miles.
Is that anything like an "air dance"?
If you are driving you could start with with a certain % of you total budget and then you will not need to re-up as much while on the road. If flying, you got to assume TSA is going to at minimum hassle you.
Let us know when the rappers pay a visit.
Just carry it, I don't think anyone is going to steal your monopoly money, you should be fine.
If you are as you say, debit card limits are not an issue.
I have not had a credit card in over ten years. At times I spend considerable cash and have never had issues with debit withdrawal limits.
But then since you are person who thinks $1,000.00 is six figures, I can understand your concern and limitations.
tittyfan I sense you and jestie are just jealous because my a) my IQ us higher than sum of yours and his and b) my average trade is about ten times your size.
As I say I see nothing wrong with using CC's for non-strip club purchases. In fact if you don't carry a balance you can come out ahead on air miles/cash back whatever.
And I feel sorry for you if consider $10k major money to blow on a road trip. You a low income kind if guy like most passive-aggressives are I take it?
Something like inside the speaker, velcro to bottom of car seat, inside a fake container.
It's going to be fun...stay safe...have a blast!!!
Start by taking it out of your piggy bank or the shoe-box. Once you've run by the coinstar and gotten bills come back and we'll talk again.
Anyone that has to brag online about their "IQ" and the size of their "trades" has little, if anything, to brag about.
By the way I never called it major, nice try though ;)
As for account size you will notice it was tittybrain who started that one. I just thought I would clarify things a bit so he knows his place a bit better in the future. (Seriously though the guy is slightly under caputalized if her thinks he'll make a living off $37k trades. That's even if he had a good sense if market direction which his treasury calls show he does not.)
10k is a lot to spend on a single road trip, especially if you target your spending wisely. Heck, if I were going on a trip with the primary purpose of visiting SCs, I would probably jump on a plane and head to someplace like Miami or Providence. Vegas is definitely not a high ROI town.
But if I was going to actually do this type of trip, I would bring the cash with me. Most good hotels have safes in the rooms and, as shadow suggested, the trunk is not a bad place to store it in either. And like shadow, I limit how much I bring into a club, not because I cannot afford it, but because it keeps me from getting too stupid. $1,000 is about the max that I will normally carry in with me, which is more than enough to ensure a good time in the right places, but limits my losses if I get stupid in the wrong places or with the wrong girls.
I will await the reviews from this road trip with breathless expectation. ;)
Don't worry there'll be plenty of reviews fir you rick (and thanks fir being helpful for once). I do know, however, that ni matter what I write you will say they are fake though since you are just FOS like that! LOL!
You know dougster feels like he's losing when he starts kissing ass, making shit up and tossing out nonsensical insults.
Enjoy the "scenery" in the shithole Nevada counties that allow brothels.
If you are with a bank with offices nationwide just make an in-person withdrawl for the money you will be needing that day. If you instead are working with a more local bank then instead set up an account with a nationwide bank.
And guess what, genius, the nv btothels is only a small of the trip. Just like a passive aggressive to read the worst into everything though. Logic is no issue since disagreeing is the only goal. (Which is why some suggest your condition should br called oppositional personality disorder. I notice your favorite phrase here is "I am in the minority but...")
Now to let you in on a little secret, i am being nice today because I destroyed you and ricky-boy so badly in the other thread. Earlier this week took out Vince Michael's, and in this thread
knocked tittyfan down a notch. I can afford to be nice now. Throw some crumbs to the defeated.
If you bank at a large bank like Bank of America, you can stop at any branch around the country and take out cash. You would not have to change your ATM limit.
Che, from personal experience, that's a good point. I'm the opposite of you. I don't keep any cash at home and usually only have about $20 on me.
Several years ago, a spring storm came thru the area and knocked out power for four days. I had no money on me. A few gas stations were open but their credit card machines were down. Bank ATMs were down. Few restaurants were open.
Let me tell you - it was a struggle to get thru that week with no money and only find that didn't require cooking. I've learned to be better prepared.
I know one of the local whales loaded up a safe in his home with $100s and drew on that for his SC visits.
I did visits to the teller before trips on the past but $2500 is the most cash I took on a trip. Don't really like the idea of having to visit a teller every time I need another G so just going up the ATM limit. $1000 should be fine the drop it back to $700 after the trip.
I have thought of the disaster/bank run scenario but never got further than bend over and kiss my ass goodbye.
He talks constantly of how he gets 10's in clubs cheaply, but yet wants to go to brothels where it costs more and the selection is not as good.
He took a trip to NV brothels last year and didn't get laid because he didn't like the selection, but now he is going back to see the country.
He likes low withdrawal limits for security purposes. He has no problem supposedly blowing $10,000 on whores, but is afraid of losing a couple of thousand in a checking account to a mythical hacker.
Mjx01 has the right idea. You set up a separate acount for your withdrawal needs, very simple and low risk. People that know what to do, do it.
People like Fraudster just make up excuses and cloak it in "security" and "privacy".
And as is so typical of Fraudster, when his bullshit is exposed he attacks the poster to deflect from his bullshit.
Now jester is supposedly passive aggressive. The only disorder exposed on this thread is that of the delusional dysfunctional Fraudster.
And yes people often spend more on services and goods when traveling then they would at home. Duh!
Also you can hit your Atm limit on cards multiple days. I 'm not in watching every tick of the market. I'm after the long term trends so often won't and don't want to look at the market and my balance every day.
And you are completely naive if you think hackers are mythical.
Unlike. Jestie I don't think you have an actual mental illness tittybrain, but you are definitely s clown, very naive and idealistic, just plain dumb, and constantly being disingenuous. In any case bottom line is my average trade is 10x the size of yours so that's about all there is to say at the end of the day when comparing me ti you. Oh, and you the direction of treasuries wrong for three years and I did not.
But you can easily take out the cash in 2 separate transactions of $5K.
At 70, probably not. For those 70-, just follow the below $10K rule, to the extent possible, if you're prone to spending wads of benjamins. And don't go overboard with them $5K + $5K withdrawals. They've been checking those for some years now. Use the separate credit card cash advance method and things should be relatively straight and narrow.
Let's give it credit, last week its insults were "you're a girl" and the ilk, now its stepped it up to saying I have psychological problems it found on wikipedia. 18+ replies in its own thread and none of them more than 6 hours apart, does it sleep?
Also credit cards can be a good idea but some gas stations will charge credit card customers a slightly higher price than the cash customers. I saw this a lot in Detroit but it is probably not something you will encounter too often.
Happy Mongering!
Regarding banks and reporting, if you are not laundering money or dealing drugs it is not a problem. It's a pattern of transactions, not single transactions that raise a red flag.
Nice that some don't hate that I'm going to do this trip. Thanks!
*sigh* This is what I get for trying to be a good sport.
Don't blame me for the fact that you continuously shit on a computer screen and call it gold. ;)
Take out a wad of cash from your account. You are a big boy capable of keeping a handle on a big wad of cash.
But what I do works for me. Others around here have their own gigs and that is cool too. While I (and others around here) fuck strippers, you fuck tube socks. LOL.
Now I worry a little when I continue to highlight your frauds. A guy who goes through such effort to post so many fake reviews and to make up such obviously absurd stories is an unhinged dude indeed. Don't do anything rash to yourself. Being called out as a pathetic fraud is not worth hurting yourself over. I don't need that kind of weight on my shoulders just because I had a little fun with an overfed troll.
This site really needs emoticons. LMAO.
And no worries I won't hurt myself over a guy yelling "you fuck tube socks!" Insults at me. Might need to visit the ER for a split gut for laughing at that shattering insult, however.
@rick: hey question for you. Curious why you don't mention OTC in your reviews? Scared people will actually read them and notice your dismally low success rate?
Them vincy, dougy, ricki, tittifuck, mikey (and bunch of them are my bastard fucking grandkids, I know, mea fucking culpa) fuckheads are at it again sucking each other's dick. Can't these douche bags get a room somewhere and keep it private? Why do these sissy fucks gotta go on them parades in broad fucking daylight?
Best "typo resulting in an unintended double entendre" of the week!