the most money you've ever had in your current account

Dr Lobster* · Mon 12 Jan, 2009 22.18

i think this is the most i've ever had in my current account at any one time, although a couple of years ago my employer inadvertently paid me nearly £11,000 in travel expenses (a clerk put the decimal point in the wrong place and i was paid around £6 a mile).

i'm sad to say i'm not anywhere this flush normally - that was just the funds for the mortgage being released, sadly.

lukey · Mon 12 Jan, 2009 22.51

At the moment I'm sitting on £-170 and £309 in my current accounts. Great. I'm not sure I've ever had much more than perhaps a grand or two at one time. Woeful.

nwtv2003 · Mon 12 Jan, 2009 23.04

I had £3000 in my current account once when I just couldn't be arsed opening a Savings account, I wish I had sooner.

Slightly OT, but those Barclays machines are dodgy, there's one near us that has been tampered with and people have had money taken from their accounts, which is odd considering the "special effort" Barclays make for those machines to be safe.

Nick Harvey · Mon 12 Jan, 2009 23.04

Isn't inflation a wonderful thing!

I remember when my first mortgage cleared and I was chuffed to bits to have the best part of £3,000 in my current account overnight.

I paid for a house with it the following day.

The same house sold recently for £270,000, but sadly, it wasn't me selling it.

Stuart* · Mon 12 Jan, 2009 23.12

When I worked for the MOD pay office I accidentally overpaid someone by more than £800,000 (her adjustment had been backdated to sometime in 1898 in error). I didn't realise at the time because the excessive pay prints only went up to £9,999.99 and she was due quite alot of arrears anyway!

I got a very shocked lady on the phone a few days after it went into her bank. She sent us a cheque returning the overpayment and thanking us for the interest that she'd earned on the money during the time it was in her account!

I had £50,000 in my current account about this time last year for about 6 weeks; but it doesn't really count as 'mine' since I was just shuffling mortgage money around. It was nice to dream though whenever I logged on to the bank and saw the balance. Barclays were 'ever so nice' to me while it was in there too!

nidave · Tue 13 Jan, 2009 09.07

We had to make a programme change in our software to pay bonuses of over 1 million as the field was not big enough, unfortunately not me

(Was a F1 Team)

I have been involved in sorting out some Premiership football clubs pay and its just not fair...

Gavin Scott · Tue 13 Jan, 2009 09.11

I met a man yesterday who currently has around £6M in cash assets, looking to invest it. And when you consider the 0.5% commission trail that comes from that...

Nick Harvey · Tue 13 Jan, 2009 11.37

Gavin Scott wrote:I met a man yesterday who currently has around £6M in cash assets, looking to invest it.

I trust you recommended Harvey Enterprises.

Gavin Scott · Tue 13 Jan, 2009 11.49

I may have done. Its on my notes somewhere under this pile of money.

Where's me shovel?

Lorns · Tue 13 Jan, 2009 21.31

Gavin Scott wrote:I met a man yesterday who currently has around £6M in cash assets, looking to invest it. And when you consider the 0.5% commission trail that comes from that...

Is he young, handsome and single?

iSon · Tue 13 Jan, 2009 21.51

I got a £196.40 tax rebate today which was totally unexpected and certainly unexpected. But certainly VERY welcome, what with the credit crunch how it is at the moment.