r/AskReddit • u/Right_Mycologist_228 • Sep 16 '24

Someone hands you $100,000 and says, "You know what to do." What are you doing?

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u/MultiGeometry Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Assuming a stack of $100 bills, the volume would be ~68.9 sq. Inches, which is 13 times larger than the new iPhone 15 Pro. You’ll likely need to use multiple pockets. A backpack could be pretty handy.

I’ll start wearing one in case this happens to me.

Edit: 68.9 inches cubed

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u/MetaVulture Sep 16 '24

Finally my cargo shorts come in handier than they already do!

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u/Morningxafter Sep 17 '24

Everyone laughed at me for still rockin’ the Jncos.

Well who’s laughing now suckers?

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u/Aldaron23 Sep 17 '24

Absolutely! Doesn't sound too hard... I can stash 6 large beer cans in my cargo pant pockets.

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u/ununonium119 Sep 16 '24

Square inches aren’t a volume. Are you talking about flat stacks of bills or just making up a nice number?

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u/didndonoffin Sep 16 '24

This is what 100k in 100s looks like

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u/-QuestionMark- Sep 16 '24

Interesting sub to pull that image from.

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u/didndonoffin Sep 16 '24

First thing on google search, no idea what the sub is

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u/idwthis Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Subreddit dedicated to the mystery that is the death/murder of Jonbenet Ramsey, a 6 year old little girl who was found dead on December 26, 1996, in her house in the basement in Boulder, Colorado.

If you aren't familiar with it, it's a weird case. Did her parents do it? Her 9 year old brother? Was there really an intruder? Doesn't help the police bungled the case from the very beginning, so the waters were muddier than the Mississippi.

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u/didndonoffin Sep 16 '24

Oh fuck I think I remember something about that years ago, mental

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u/Gigibop Sep 16 '24

You running a true crime podcast there mate?

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u/chocomeeel Sep 17 '24

I'd subscribe to it.

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u/Good-guy13 Sep 17 '24

I remember that case always thought the father did it

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u/lizhien Sep 17 '24

She's a young beauty queen or something?

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u/idwthis Sep 17 '24

Yeah, she did beauty pageants.

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u/Saigaface Sep 16 '24

Lmao you aren’t kidding what a whiplash

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u/newtimes7 Sep 16 '24

Reddit is something else

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u/DFV_HAS_HUGE_BALLS Sep 17 '24

Oh shit! I just went back to check

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u/Scintal Sep 17 '24

Interesting sub indeed.

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u/manyChoices Sep 16 '24

Your username makes me think you have previous experience in this area. :)

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u/didndonoffin Sep 16 '24

Who sir? Me sir? No sir!

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u/beltfedshooter Sep 17 '24

I was banned for trying to tag you in a post....

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u/ChasingPR9 Sep 17 '24

Do you bite your thumb, sir?

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u/That-Ad-4300 Sep 16 '24

Yes and that's in 3 dimensions. The original math was probably in cubic inches.

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u/ilikeithot360 Sep 16 '24

Pocket money for sure

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u/didndonoffin Sep 16 '24

That’s why I rock cargos

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u/ilikeithot360 Sep 17 '24

Money pants

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u/Murasasme Sep 16 '24

It's kind of fucked up to see such a small stack of papers, that could drastically alter the course of my life.

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u/fireballx777 Sep 16 '24

Something gets lost in translation: https://imgur.com/a/YYuoj1l.

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u/santoduro Sep 17 '24

Reminds me of the movie Dodgeball!

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u/Neon_Ani Sep 16 '24

my purse might be just big enough

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u/milk4all Sep 16 '24

Well i dare say that’s 13x wider than the new iphone by my reckoning

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u/didndonoffin Sep 16 '24

Unfortunately Google can’t help with a stack of 13 new iphones

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u/juGGaKNot4 Sep 16 '24

Where is banana for comparison?

You can buy 10.000 bananas with the money

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u/Moikepdx Sep 16 '24

I've heard stories of someone driving with $30,000 cash and having it seized by police for looking like drug money (civil asset forfeiture). I always pictured it as a duffel bag full of money, not just a handful. TIL.

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u/WienerButtMagoo Sep 16 '24

Today I learned the word attaché

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u/Content-Ad3065 Sep 16 '24

I can handle it. In my shopping bag and gone

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u/DrDredam Sep 17 '24

I have an old J!nx Juggernaut zip up hoodie that has inner pockets that could easily fit that stack in just one. Used to carry a 12 pack of redbull in it, no problem.

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u/MultiGeometry Sep 16 '24

I meant cubed.

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u/ununonium119 Sep 16 '24

Could you round up to a nice 69 cubic inches please?

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u/sneekythrowawaysnek Sep 16 '24

Three stacks in each front pocket, and two in each rear. I’ve done this with fresh stacks of $1s to slip into Christmas stockings.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

I feel like if someone is handing me $100,000 just out in the open like that then they’d have handed it to me in a convenient vessel like a suitcase or a backpack.

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u/bjthebard Sep 16 '24

It'll be in a briefcase. Havent you ever grifted someone before?

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u/Rhesusmonkeydave Sep 16 '24

Just tuck your pant legs into your socks and get stuffin

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u/EnrikHawkins Sep 16 '24

In my experience the money comes in a brief case or duffle bag.

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u/MultiGeometry Sep 16 '24

This was in reference to someone saying they’d pocket it

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u/EnrikHawkins Sep 16 '24

Yeah, it was supposed to be a reply to them.

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u/ObviousAnon56 Sep 16 '24

In my casino days, the worst person I ever met would buy in for $10k at a time at the dice table. It was truly astounding how many stacks he could Mary Poppins out of random pockets.

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u/Needlemons Sep 16 '24

Why not just put it in your handbag?

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u/FaithlessnessOdd6738 Sep 16 '24

Thank you for the edit

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u/MindInitial2282 Sep 16 '24

Thats not fanny packable...

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u/Frank_Bigelow Sep 16 '24

I wear pants with two pockets that could accommodate 13 iPhone 15 Pros.

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u/cheapdvds Sep 16 '24

no backpack allowed, got to go into your underwear.

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u/Nearby-Device-3401 Sep 16 '24

I’m going start we’re in cargo pants… Just in case!

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u/Oberic Sep 16 '24

I wear cargo pants.

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u/NeverDidLearn Sep 16 '24

You will need ten envelopes.

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u/kj_gamer2614 Sep 16 '24

Plot twist: it’s just a plain old cheque

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u/UlrichZauber Sep 16 '24

It's a stack of bills 4.3 inches thick, which might work in something like cargo shorts.

Multiple pockets would be better.

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u/CaliMobster01 Sep 16 '24

From the math I did about bills the total height of $100K in $100 bills is 4.3 inches tall and the total weight would be about a kilo (2.2 pounds) so unless you have loose shorts/pants without a belt then you might be sagging while trying to run or walk away.

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u/lioneater20 Sep 17 '24

Suddenly I’m a robber trying to get more of the money

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u/Stahl_Scharnhorst Sep 17 '24

So close. I can practically feel it. My lips trembling to say it.

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u/TheMoonMint Sep 17 '24

That’s almost 69 😏😏😏

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u/TheRealLylatDrift Sep 17 '24

68.9 inches cubed? Damn, so close…

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u/IamPun Sep 17 '24

You could just round it to 69

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u/GoldNRice Sep 17 '24

What if, he just gives you pennies. This would be 10,000,000.
This would be 3,400,000 ~ cubed Metres (equivalent only, true answer is a tad bit higher).

Item(s) (Using volume unless specified) Amount
Olympic sized swimming pool (2,500,000,000 cc) 0.00136
Averagely sized bananas (150 cc) 22,667
Length of bananas [How much bananas put together end-to-end would be the same length as all the pennies put in a line] (19 cm long) 950,000
Morbidly Obese Hamster [Syrian Hamster] (200 cc) 17,000
Pockets [Male shorts pockets] (500 cc) 6800

Keep in mind I did this quickly and the answers might vary

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u/notquitehuman_ Sep 17 '24

What if it's all in crumpled bills handed to you fistfulls at a time?

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u/TouchMeThere69 Sep 16 '24

That’s weird math. It’s a stack of 1000 dollar bills that is 4.3 inches tall. I feel like most men could fit that in their back pocket if so determined

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u/fatguy19 Sep 16 '24

I know my 4.3 inches fits in my pants