#besides nami would never let them run out of money tbh

[beanghostprincess]

hi its me back again with another op dream. this time i was trying to convince pudding why she shouldnt marry sanji and one of the reasons (aka the only one i remember) was that he has no money and it got me thinking, the straw hats are pirates, but they dont rlly plunder like regular pirates, and obviously nami has money, but do the rest of the straw hats have money?? do they have cash???

I think Nami is probably the one dealing with the money. We've always seen her being the one handing out the money to the Strawhats if needed. We've seen they're capable of stealing money but they're, uh, just not very good at it? I'm sure they're not filthy rich but if you have in mind the places they've been to, they didn't really need to spend THAT much. I think they have their fair amount of savings (that Nami controls) and I'm sure they just keep valuable stuff they find + steal from people who deserve it (idk, marines, annoying pirates, enemies in general, etc). But it's not really an important point of the story so Oda doesn't really mention it much. They're not regular pirates and would never hurt innocent people so I think they just try to find valuable stuff and money in other places. Also, y'know, people have paid for their stuff for the most part of their journey because Luffy befriends literally everyone they meet. So their money usually goes to food and stuff they really, really need and it's in very specific points of the story. Just think about how little time passes between each arc. Not that they really need much, tbh.