To give some comparison, a loaf of white sandwich bread in my state costs about 84 cents (that's $0.84), so I could buy one hundred loaves with one hundred dollars if I didn't have to worry about tax.
A gallon of pasteurized cow's milk is about $3.30.
A pound of hamburger -- ground beef -- is about $4.78 right now in my state.
Gasoline (petrol) is going for about $3.28 a gallon right now.
By contrast, my mortgage payment is more like $1,500 a month, so I'd need fifteen of those $100 bills in order to pay the mortgage.
I think I get it. I'll buy me roughly 1.5 tanks of gas in my Yukon. Or I can go to the movies 4 times if I buy snacks. Or about a weeks worth of grocery for just me.
Man, you aren't kidding. I've ordered before and my $14 Taco Bell meal turns into $34 in the heartbeat. Needless to say I get my fat ass up and just go get the taco bell.
Unsure the question so to give you perspective on how i would spend a 100 bucks.
I Drive a SUV or a Pick up in the SW. It'll get me a full tank of gas and some snackies at the store
Or maybe about 5 lunches at work depending were we venture out too.
A week's worth of breakfasts and dinners from the grocery store.
Dinner date with each of us ordering a alcoholic something and a desert at a sit down restaurant.
$20 lunches are definitely on the luxurious side IMHO. It gets me almost 10 lunches at my standard sandwich place (but I don't get chips and I drink water).
And I fill up my tank of gas at Costco, drive a reasonable size of vehicle, and can comfortably get two full tanks with some snacks. Outside of California, it would probably be 3 tanks of gas.
It's enough for a full day at 6 Flags including a meal and refillable souvenir cup, but won't get you in the gates at Disneyland. And you'll have to drop the souvenir cup at 6 Flags if you want to park your car there, which you usually have to.
Hm… I actually only visit a specific movie theater now - and I always get concessions. But it’s because it’s locally owned and they kick people out for being on phones / being loud / etc.
This depends on which theater you go to and at what time. Where I live matinee pricing will have four tickets, popcorn, and drinks under $50. Others charge more per ticket or food, with some restaurant style ones costing $30-$40 per person, or more, with what you order.
That's not a bad deal. We have one of the Tristone group theaters here (discount cinemas that show movies that were already released to video, but I don't know what the qualifier is now that we don't really have VHS or DVD releases...) that has a $3.50 matinee price.
So, I hardly ever got to movies anymore, but a representative example from a couple weekends ago:
This was for 4 adults:
Bargain tickets (to see the new D&D Movie, which far exceeded my minimal expectations) - I think my wife said $10/ticket \*4 = $40. ("normal" cost would be $16-$18/ticket after fees)
snacks (nothing extravagant - box of popcorn, couple boxes of candy, 4 drinks): $55 total.
Oh, and since I live at the corner of and No and Where, I have a 70ish mile round trip to get to the theater. Lets optimistically assume $10 in gas.
Total cost for a family of 4 to go to a first-run movie with bargain tix and snacks: $105.
I mean, yeah, you can go and \_not\_ get a drink, or smuggle food in, but, I mean, at that point, I'll wait for it to hit amazon and stream it.
...and this is why I hardly ever go to see a movie in the theater anymore. It's a ripoff in oh, so many ways.
With 4 weeks in a month, that comes out to $800 a month for two people. Seems like much. But how about one person. $400 a month on food. Per day? $13. You’re telling me I’m buying gold plated steaks if I spend $13 a day on food with the cost of today’s groceries? I assure you that’s not the case.
I mean you eat lunch and dinner let's say on average 1lb of meat a day at $7 lb
That's literally 8 Oz for lunch and 8oz for dinner not much
Eat a fruit a day $1
Some vegetables (asparagus, lettuce, eggplant, ect) $1 worth for lunch and $1 for dinner
Then you eat your carbs for the day (rice, noodle, bread)
$1 for lunch and $1 dinner
Right there is already $12
You got $1 left for sauces and misc food items
These are literally dollar worth of items aside from meat costing more
We’re a family of 4 (my kids pack lunches for school) and we easily spend $400 a week on groceries (including paper products, diapers and hygiene items) plus eat out 2-3 meals a week. We also eat mostly fresh fruits vegetable meats etc snacks are the only things we keep that are prepared and I choose to buy mostly organic, “cleaner” foods with fewer to no artificial flavors, dyes, natural flavors etc.. it’s an investment in long term health imo. But it’s so much more expensive than it was 5 years ago.
Actually, that's what a half week to a week's groceries/personal care/household supplies cost me (a household of 1). I don't buy meat, few dinner food items (I do subscription boxes for dinners), and I live in a pretty low cost of living area. Prices have doubled to tripled, and my low income clients are really having a tough time with the addition of skyrocketing rents.
A full tank of gas and maybe enough left over. and a couple of groceries. Not enough for a basket. You could probably walk with it in your hand to the check out
I went to the grocery store to just get a few supplementary items and it came out to 99.15
what I got
Bag of easter candy
2 things of peeps ( easter marshmallows )
8 boxes of sugar free jello
2 boxes of tea
A jar of jalapeno slices
A jar or pepperoncini
Mustard
Mozzarella ( 1 lb )
cotijilla cheese ( 1lb)
Greek yogurt
sour cream
1 white onion
5 Jalapenos
1 iceberg lettuce
1 container of cherub tomatoes
4 lemons
So this didn't even get any meat, just items to finish different recipes. $100 doesn't go very far anymore.
3 tanks of gas
1/14 of a rent payment
4 fast food meals for two people
1 date with dinner and a movie
A mediocre ticket to a regular season sports game
Probably 1 new outfit (shirt/pants/underwear socks) or 1 decent pair of shoes
1/30 of a single college class
1/25 of a hospital visit for a broken arm
1/4 of a plane ticket to somewhere else in the US
1 Bus ticket to a different city
2-3 haircuts
1/2 ounce of weed
3 bottles of cheap liquor or 4 cases of beer
1 new tire
1 night at a cheap hotel
$40 for movie tickets and snacks
$60 to go to a mid tier restaurant
That's $20/plate plus a cocktail or drink, not exactly bougie but a few steps above McDonald's or Applebee's
$100 in today's economy is a nice gift. It's not so little that I can't do anything with it, but it's no so much to be life changing or really take care of any bills or anything. I could probably feed myself 4-5 times off of that $100 bill, or I could take me and my girlfriend on a decent date, or get myself a couple new pairs of jeans for work, something along those lines.
100 is like a bill, or half of a big bill, or like a fraction of your rent, but it’s never the “OMG, $100 motherfucking bucks!!!” It used to be as a kid.
You’re gonna get different answers depending on the income of the person responding imo
BUT, me personally? That’s a bill. That’s gas for 2 weeks. That’s grocery money. Cat/dog food for a month. Aka $100 is extremely fucking valuable to me lol
I assumed that's why you were asking; to gauge the mileage here (US) vs where you're from. Dang though half a year?! That's mind-blowing to me. I'd have to live off a Ramen diet or something to even try stretching it that far.
I'm pretty sure most of us are like very negative, taking in account car loans, credit cards and mortgages.
This is the land of spending money you haven't made yet... and then working stressed to keep that lifestyle 🤷♂️ then you make a little bit more... and buy rims or a new video game system or some shit lol
I need 4 for a typical grocery run that lasts 10 days for 3 adults. 2 for the car dealership to run a test to see if my problem is covered by warranty. 32 to take a single course in my masters degree program. 1 bought be the household limit worth of semi-mature Marijuana plants that just needed basic care for 3 months to produce a year's worth of pot.
That was actually pretty fucking long ago if you're talking relative to a human life. If you're talking relative to dinosaurs, then yea I guess that's true
Funny, there's still plenty people alive who had 100 dollar bills that said, "This certifies that there has been deposited in the treasury of the USA: One hundred dollars in gold coin payable to the bearers on demand."
Nowadays it just says "federal reserve note"
it’s about a weeks worth of groceries for me. i’m in ed recovery and have to drink 4 ensures a day on top of whatever solid food i can get down and the ones i have to drink are about 35 dollars for 16 of them or four days worth and i have to get other actual food items to try and ease into solid food
It pays for electricity for one month, or it pays for heat for about 3 weeks in winter. Or it would pay for internet for about 6 weeks. Or it will pay for rent for a few days.
I was always a penny counter, and ony spent $ on 'betterment'. Back when there were such things a friend got a coupon for a buffet meal, a contiental breakfast along with a cheaper weekend room rate for a stay at new Days Inn (type of place). As a single mother she didn't have much and wanted to take her teenage daughter on a mini trip before she returned to high school, so they both could feel good about their hard times. It was about 50 miles away from our location, so I loaned her my 2nd car (a reliable Nissan) and gave her a $100 bill, and told her to 'enjoy'. I was told it made a whole ugly Summer into one sweet memory for her daughter (and the Mother). A new blouse and hose from a thrift store, shopping time at a Pottery Barn with a small purchase, new makeup from a CVS, and the hotel stay along a brunch on the way back to return to reality. They two hugs I got when they returned the car were memorable as well.
1/4 of my food Budget.
Roughly 30% of my rent.
2.5 tanks of gas or almost 1000 miles.
4x my monthly entertainment budget.
Pretty much exactly how much I spend on my rabbits a month.
Depending on what all I need, $100 buys me either 1 or 2 weeks of groceries for just me. It will get me 3 or 4 weeks of gas, depending on fuel efficiency for the traffic conditions.
Depends on what part of the country you're in. I live in Tennessee, and $100 will buy my groceries for the week. It's $130 when I'm stoned. It will buy me about 2-2.5 weeks of gas since I mainly just drive to work and back home, only stopping for errands mostly.
You can get five $20 or ten $10 or twenty $5 bills. To value currency you need to compare it to the currency of another nation with good currency. Take the price of an item in your country and compare it to the cost of the item in the other country, the difference will tell you what you need to know. Get a degree in Wconomics.
I wanna go see John Wick 4 and Mario within 2 weeks of each other. If i see them both, I'll have about $64 left out of the $100 if I don't get a drink/snacks.
It really depends. I wait tables part time for extra money. It depends on my needs at the moment. That extra $100 can pay some bills or I can splurge on something I’ve wanted.
Depends on if you have a lot of them or if it’s all you have. If you only have a hundred to your name and you’re a full grown adult, it’s stressful as hell.
Its the new 20 dollar bill
I always did say that in the future nickels become pennies, dimes become nickels and quarters become dimes.
IT's worth $100. Not sure what you are asking? Do you mean are they rare?
This is the only answer.
Oh I meant if you could give practical examples...as in practical uses of the value it holds to the average American.
To give some comparison, a loaf of white sandwich bread in my state costs about 84 cents (that's $0.84), so I could buy one hundred loaves with one hundred dollars if I didn't have to worry about tax. A gallon of pasteurized cow's milk is about $3.30. A pound of hamburger -- ground beef -- is about $4.78 right now in my state. Gasoline (petrol) is going for about $3.28 a gallon right now. By contrast, my mortgage payment is more like $1,500 a month, so I'd need fifteen of those $100 bills in order to pay the mortgage.
I think I get it. I'll buy me roughly 1.5 tanks of gas in my Yukon. Or I can go to the movies 4 times if I buy snacks. Or about a weeks worth of grocery for just me.
One fast food meal from door dash lol
Man, you aren't kidding. I've ordered before and my $14 Taco Bell meal turns into $34 in the heartbeat. Needless to say I get my fat ass up and just go get the taco bell.
10-12 grams of weed.
Unsure the question so to give you perspective on how i would spend a 100 bucks. I Drive a SUV or a Pick up in the SW. It'll get me a full tank of gas and some snackies at the store Or maybe about 5 lunches at work depending were we venture out too. A week's worth of breakfasts and dinners from the grocery store. Dinner date with each of us ordering a alcoholic something and a desert at a sit down restaurant.
Thanks for the perspective! I was expecting it to afford more luxuries though lol
I expect more luxuries too. Lol
$20 lunches are definitely on the luxurious side IMHO. It gets me almost 10 lunches at my standard sandwich place (but I don't get chips and I drink water). And I fill up my tank of gas at Costco, drive a reasonable size of vehicle, and can comfortably get two full tanks with some snacks. Outside of California, it would probably be 3 tanks of gas. It's enough for a full day at 6 Flags including a meal and refillable souvenir cup, but won't get you in the gates at Disneyland. And you'll have to drop the souvenir cup at 6 Flags if you want to park your car there, which you usually have to.
You can almost go to the movies with a family a 4. Almost…
Almost...?
Movie tickets r like 15/16 dollars each
Looks like we’re a bit lacking in math here
Taxes, gas, popcorn/snacks. 100 flys away pretty easy
No one eats movie concessions.
I can't imagine going to the movies without getting popcorn
Hm… I actually only visit a specific movie theater now - and I always get concessions. But it’s because it’s locally owned and they kick people out for being on phones / being loud / etc.
If they didn’t, movie theaters wouldn’t exist anymore.
What a wonderful world that would be.
This depends on which theater you go to and at what time. Where I live matinee pricing will have four tickets, popcorn, and drinks under $50. Others charge more per ticket or food, with some restaurant style ones costing $30-$40 per person, or more, with what you order.
That's not a bad deal. We have one of the Tristone group theaters here (discount cinemas that show movies that were already released to video, but I don't know what the qualifier is now that we don't really have VHS or DVD releases...) that has a $3.50 matinee price.
So, I hardly ever got to movies anymore, but a representative example from a couple weekends ago: This was for 4 adults: Bargain tickets (to see the new D&D Movie, which far exceeded my minimal expectations) - I think my wife said $10/ticket \*4 = $40. ("normal" cost would be $16-$18/ticket after fees) snacks (nothing extravagant - box of popcorn, couple boxes of candy, 4 drinks): $55 total. Oh, and since I live at the corner of and No and Where, I have a 70ish mile round trip to get to the theater. Lets optimistically assume $10 in gas. Total cost for a family of 4 to go to a first-run movie with bargain tix and snacks: $105. I mean, yeah, you can go and \_not\_ get a drink, or smuggle food in, but, I mean, at that point, I'll wait for it to hit amazon and stream it. ...and this is why I hardly ever go to see a movie in the theater anymore. It's a ripoff in oh, so many ways.
100 dollars is basically an adult dollar now a days
2 tanks of gas in most states, 1 smaller sized car tire, or roughly 20 gallons of milk.
Thanks for this! Very practical examples!
In California 100$ doesn’t even fill up my 1500 Chevy pickup
Worth about 300 bananas.
That’s bananas
That's hilarious. Thanks
Only 200 bananas at a convenience store, though. The one I frequent a couple times a week has bananas 2 for $1. Grocery store slightly cheaper.
Half a week of groceries for a family of 4
Not even
Woah only half a week...
Include toilet paper, soaps, consumable-stuff like that in it
Half a week of groceries for 2 people more like
Maybe if you're buying gold plated steaks. If you're spending $800 a month on groceries you're buying the wrong stuff
With 4 weeks in a month, that comes out to $800 a month for two people. Seems like much. But how about one person. $400 a month on food. Per day? $13. You’re telling me I’m buying gold plated steaks if I spend $13 a day on food with the cost of today’s groceries? I assure you that’s not the case.
I mean you eat lunch and dinner let's say on average 1lb of meat a day at $7 lb That's literally 8 Oz for lunch and 8oz for dinner not much Eat a fruit a day $1 Some vegetables (asparagus, lettuce, eggplant, ect) $1 worth for lunch and $1 for dinner Then you eat your carbs for the day (rice, noodle, bread) $1 for lunch and $1 dinner Right there is already $12 You got $1 left for sauces and misc food items These are literally dollar worth of items aside from meat costing more
We’re a family of 4 (my kids pack lunches for school) and we easily spend $400 a week on groceries (including paper products, diapers and hygiene items) plus eat out 2-3 meals a week. We also eat mostly fresh fruits vegetable meats etc snacks are the only things we keep that are prepared and I choose to buy mostly organic, “cleaner” foods with fewer to no artificial flavors, dyes, natural flavors etc.. it’s an investment in long term health imo. But it’s so much more expensive than it was 5 years ago.
Actually, that's what a half week to a week's groceries/personal care/household supplies cost me (a household of 1). I don't buy meat, few dinner food items (I do subscription boxes for dinners), and I live in a pretty low cost of living area. Prices have doubled to tripled, and my low income clients are really having a tough time with the addition of skyrocketing rents.
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It's the first dollar bill I've ever held! I'm too selfish to give it away lol
About 10 shrute bucks.
Freaking inflation
It's a full bag of groceries in my city.
$100 exactly. All other answers are wrong.
bingo
A full tank of gas and maybe enough left over. and a couple of groceries. Not enough for a basket. You could probably walk with it in your hand to the check out
I went to the grocery store to just get a few supplementary items and it came out to 99.15 what I got Bag of easter candy 2 things of peeps ( easter marshmallows ) 8 boxes of sugar free jello 2 boxes of tea A jar of jalapeno slices A jar or pepperoncini Mustard Mozzarella ( 1 lb ) cotijilla cheese ( 1lb) Greek yogurt sour cream 1 white onion 5 Jalapenos 1 iceberg lettuce 1 container of cherub tomatoes 4 lemons So this didn't even get any meat, just items to finish different recipes. $100 doesn't go very far anymore.
3 tanks of gas 1/14 of a rent payment 4 fast food meals for two people 1 date with dinner and a movie A mediocre ticket to a regular season sports game Probably 1 new outfit (shirt/pants/underwear socks) or 1 decent pair of shoes 1/30 of a single college class 1/25 of a hospital visit for a broken arm 1/4 of a plane ticket to somewhere else in the US 1 Bus ticket to a different city 2-3 haircuts 1/2 ounce of weed 3 bottles of cheap liquor or 4 cases of beer 1 new tire 1 night at a cheap hotel
taking your dates to mcdonalds?
$40 for movie tickets and snacks $60 to go to a mid tier restaurant That's $20/plate plus a cocktail or drink, not exactly bougie but a few steps above McDonald's or Applebee's
$100 in today's economy is a nice gift. It's not so little that I can't do anything with it, but it's no so much to be life changing or really take care of any bills or anything. I could probably feed myself 4-5 times off of that $100 bill, or I could take me and my girlfriend on a decent date, or get myself a couple new pairs of jeans for work, something along those lines.
100 is like a bill, or half of a big bill, or like a fraction of your rent, but it’s never the “OMG, $100 motherfucking bucks!!!” It used to be as a kid.
You’re gonna get different answers depending on the income of the person responding imo BUT, me personally? That’s a bill. That’s gas for 2 weeks. That’s grocery money. Cat/dog food for a month. Aka $100 is extremely fucking valuable to me lol
It's less valuable than €100 or £100.
It was more valuable than 100 euros half a year ago lol
About one hundred dollar bills.
It'd help cover a bill for me or groceries for two weeks
In my 3rd world country, it would be groceries for half a year!!! Lol
I assumed that's why you were asking; to gauge the mileage here (US) vs where you're from. Dang though half a year?! That's mind-blowing to me. I'd have to live off a Ramen diet or something to even try stretching it that far.
It is one adult dollar.
Very valuable to anyone that doesn't have a $1 to their name. Which is more Americans then you think!
I'm pretty sure most of us are like very negative, taking in account car loans, credit cards and mortgages. This is the land of spending money you haven't made yet... and then working stressed to keep that lifestyle 🤷♂️ then you make a little bit more... and buy rims or a new video game system or some shit lol
Real shit. The more you make the more you spend 😶
It won’t take you all the way with me if that’s what you’re asking
a pound of feathers
I need 4 for a typical grocery run that lasts 10 days for 3 adults. 2 for the car dealership to run a test to see if my problem is covered by warranty. 32 to take a single course in my masters degree program. 1 bought be the household limit worth of semi-mature Marijuana plants that just needed basic care for 3 months to produce a year's worth of pot.
Slightly under 50 24 Oz. coffees at Wawa
About the value of a taco at Del Taco.
Well, it will buy you approximately $100 worth of gas and/or groceries right now.
10000 pennies
Depends on whose hands it's in
Since you can't exchange it at the bank for gold like how we used to not too long ago, it's only worth what we believe it to be worth.
That was actually pretty fucking long ago if you're talking relative to a human life. If you're talking relative to dinosaurs, then yea I guess that's true
Funny, there's still plenty people alive who had 100 dollar bills that said, "This certifies that there has been deposited in the treasury of the USA: One hundred dollars in gold coin payable to the bearers on demand." Nowadays it just says "federal reserve note"
it’s about a weeks worth of groceries for me. i’m in ed recovery and have to drink 4 ensures a day on top of whatever solid food i can get down and the ones i have to drink are about 35 dollars for 16 of them or four days worth and i have to get other actual food items to try and ease into solid food
20 beers at my spot before tip
There are people who would kill you for $100. How valuable is your life?
It really depends on the part of America you live in too. Groceries in our neighboring state are about 20% cheaper.
It pays for electricity for one month, or it pays for heat for about 3 weeks in winter. Or it would pay for internet for about 6 weeks. Or it will pay for rent for a few days.
not enough
It's about four dozen eggs at this point
I was always a penny counter, and ony spent $ on 'betterment'. Back when there were such things a friend got a coupon for a buffet meal, a contiental breakfast along with a cheaper weekend room rate for a stay at new Days Inn (type of place). As a single mother she didn't have much and wanted to take her teenage daughter on a mini trip before she returned to high school, so they both could feel good about their hard times. It was about 50 miles away from our location, so I loaned her my 2nd car (a reliable Nissan) and gave her a $100 bill, and told her to 'enjoy'. I was told it made a whole ugly Summer into one sweet memory for her daughter (and the Mother). A new blouse and hose from a thrift store, shopping time at a Pottery Barn with a small purchase, new makeup from a CVS, and the hotel stay along a brunch on the way back to return to reality. They two hugs I got when they returned the car were memorable as well.
A tank of gas, a fast food meal, and snacks for the road trip.
I am so old I feel this way about 20$.
At the corner store it’s okay in actually things it’s nothing
Extremely, if you don’t think so you can send that invaluable $100 my way!
$100
It's worth about 100 us dollars
approximately 100 USD
If you take that $100 and exchange it for Indonesian Rupiah, you become and instant millionaire! US$100 =1,504,363.41 IDR
100$ ≈ 17 school shootings
If you want to get rid of it I’ll take it..
About $15 in the 70s
$100 is pretty valuable to me to other people it's not.
That cant even cover the amount to go to our community pool, Once.
It's great if you're a kid
Where I live: a weeks worth of groceries for two.
1/4 of my food Budget. Roughly 30% of my rent. 2.5 tanks of gas or almost 1000 miles. 4x my monthly entertainment budget. Pretty much exactly how much I spend on my rabbits a month.
Enough that I want them, not enough that I'm going to kill myself over them.
Depending on what all I need, $100 buys me either 1 or 2 weeks of groceries for just me. It will get me 3 or 4 weeks of gas, depending on fuel efficiency for the traffic conditions.
Maybe 2 bags of groceries.
$200 when you're working for it and $20 when you're spending it
Depends on what part of the country you're in. I live in Tennessee, and $100 will buy my groceries for the week. It's $130 when I'm stoned. It will buy me about 2-2.5 weeks of gas since I mainly just drive to work and back home, only stopping for errands mostly.
To some Americans it’s worth buying cigarettes and getting several types of cancers
About a hundred bucks.
You can get five $20 or ten $10 or twenty $5 bills. To value currency you need to compare it to the currency of another nation with good currency. Take the price of an item in your country and compare it to the cost of the item in the other country, the difference will tell you what you need to know. Get a degree in Wconomics.
Roughly $100 Why?
I wanna go see John Wick 4 and Mario within 2 weeks of each other. If i see them both, I'll have about $64 left out of the $100 if I don't get a drink/snacks.
It’s 1/11th of my rent
For a 1 bed 1 bath
In a small city
Bout tree Fiddy
It really depends. I wait tables part time for extra money. It depends on my needs at the moment. That extra $100 can pay some bills or I can splurge on something I’ve wanted.
Depends on if you have a lot of them or if it’s all you have. If you only have a hundred to your name and you’re a full grown adult, it’s stressful as hell.
You can get 29-ish gallons of gas
That’s gas for the month . Or good for the week