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You only need four denominations for your set. You can just use 5/25/100/500 and play .05/.10 micro cash or tournaments.
This. Don't buy a set with too many denominations. I use 50/100/500/1000 chips for our home games
10 50s
20 100s
5 500s
5 1000s
for 100BB buy in works fine. Then give out 10 1000s for a rebuy and and make change at the table. That should keep the amount of chips you need to buy to a minimum. If you're playing with beginners at 6-8 players having a dozen or so rebuys on hand should be enough.
(just checked our stats: we play 4 hours and the most rebuys we've seen in one night were 8. Of course if you're playing tournament then rebuys aren't an issue and you may want to have 1 larger denomination on hand for the final levels)