Do you keep a lot of cash around (in your house) If so, why?

Define “a lot.”

Then yes. I live in an area where the “big earthquake” could hit any time. At the advice of my FP I keep some cash in the house.

I'm lucky if a have a few singles in my wallet.

Yes, we have a cash stash in our safe, it is part of our overall preparedness plan for natural disasters or other unusual circumstances.

I rarely have cash on hand, or in my purse lol

I usually have a few $20's tucked away in odd places in the even that my kid "needs" a pizza or take out. I've cut back on this as he has a job now and is 18, and I don't feel "responsible" to provide him dinner every night.

I also have a few tucked away in two spots for dog walkers. They each have a spot they know where there is a bit of money and a key, that way if I get stuck in traffic or something last minute comes up, I can call them, they let themselves in, and they know where to get their payment too lol

My mom has 7k somewhere in her house that she hid. She managed to hide it from herself. I'm just sad because I 100% believe my brother (who lives there.....ugh....) wouldn't share the secret spot with her if he found/finds it. Grrrr

If I have cash, I spend it. So besides taking out $20 a month for laundry, nope.

I rarely have ANY cash in my wallet, so forget the house! Oh, wait I do have a couple of $100 bills tucked into my purse- but that's not a lot!

This is me. LOL

No we don't keep a large emergency fund of cash, but we always have some cash because we have kids who play sports and around here you have to pay cash at the school for concessions and game admissions, etc. Also the movie theater only takes cash.

We have some new cash in the house as part of our earthquake emergency kit.

I still use cash, mainly for purchases under $10. So I do carry cash on me. And I like to leave cash tips at restaurants rather than on my card.

I put some cash to the side from every paycheck to save for the trip I'm taking later this year, but that's it. It isn't that much either, I think I'm at around $100 at the moment because I deposited some recently to cover the flight I booked. The rest will go towards the second half of my airbnb payment. It helps because if I see it in my bank account, I'll think I'll have a few hundred more than I do because the money has already been allocated. But I don't keep "what if" stashes, I don't make enough to even consider having one.

We keep around $2000 in cash in the house as part of disaster preparedness. It should be enough for food and other essentials or needed services in case of an emergency that caused an extended power outage or took down other infrastructure. We kept more on hand when we lived on the coast, because extended large power outages were fairly frequent and though many businesses had generators, having cash was easier if you needed something (because phone/internet was down too sometimes, so you couldn't use a card anyway). It also made it easier to find people to do work that needed to be done ASAP in the immediate aftermath of storms - tree removal, roof repair, etc.

Even though I know cash is always a recommended part of an emergency kit, I probably wouldn't keep much if any on hand if we hadn't had those experiences on the coast. But having been through situations where it was a big benefit, we changed our ways.

That said, it's rare I have any cash in my wallet lol

No.  Dh will often keep up to a $100 in tens and twenties to pay the kid down the street for mowing and other random cash needs.  But no large piles of cash in our house these days.

Growing up my family was friends with an older man who would stash thousands in his house.  Then he was broken into and they took $30k just from his couch.  His daughter finally convinced him to put it all in the bank (he used the bank, he just didn't totally trust them so kept some cash on hand).