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Saturday June 10, 2006

Laundering Money

I laundered some money this morning. Another first for me. Surprisingly, after going throught the washer and the drier, it came out okay.

Now this kind of thing has happened before when doing my son's laundry. He's accidentally left rocks, beads, candy and lots of other assorted goodies in his pants pockets, which have then been given a good cleaning (in some cases, with me wondering if I'm going to have to replace the equipment because it's starting to malfunction.)

This morning I was getting ready to berate Duncan about the money when my wife 'fessed up. Seems she forgot to clean her pockets out after going to the Farmer's Market on Thursday. Well it's mine now. Perfect change for today's Palo Alto Library book sale.

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( Jun 10 2006, 07:36:48 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [3]

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U.S. currency survives soaking better than most, partly because it's not really paper; there's (reputedly) quite a bit of cotton fibers in it, making it more like felt. a few countries (Australia?) are said to be going over to plastic bank notes these days. i imagine you might not want to put those through a dryer...

Posted by Nomen Nescio on June 11, 2006 at 06:51 AM PDT #

Hi Nomen. I lived in Australia for nine years and used (and still have) some of that plastic currency. I've never put it through a dryer, but I often challenge friends to try to rip it. So far nobody has succeeded. It'll look mangled afterwards, but not ripped.

Posted by Rich Burridge on June 11, 2006 at 09:43 AM PDT #

I live in Brazil and our currency survives very well being soaked. When I was younger, when I used to go to the beach with friends, we used to take money on the pockets of our shorts and bathed in the sea water with the money on our pockets.

This was mostly as a security measure, since we were alone and we liked to get rides in the waves all the time (here we call it "pegar jacaré" witch translate to catch an aligator).

Well back to point, the money would survive to this mixture of salt water and friction with sand very well. But sometimes I still get a bill that is somewhat washedout due to those hardness.

Also we do have a R$10,00 bill that is made of plastic. But it is a comemorative bill, and the majority of them are made from the usual money paper material.

Posted by victor Bogado on June 12, 2006 at 05:57 AM PDT #