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A UK supermarket has banned the use of money that was stored in shoes and bras as part of the effort to reign in the spread of COVID-19. Among other strange facts coming out of this outbreak is that some people lick their money before handing it over to the cashier.
We are doomed.
[Ed Note - Updated the story to reflect that the store is called Iceland and is, in fact, a UK supermarket.]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @03:54PM (5 children)
OBTW - the advice above presupposes your currency is a classical cotton/paper based currency. I have no idea the effect ironing would have on more modern currencies with plastic components, which is why the YMMV caution is warranted. May be safer to pin the notes onto the clothes-line (though you would want to keep a close watch over them).
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Saturday March 14 2020, @05:36PM (2 children)
I once deposited a Euro banknote that the teller's counting machine wouldn't recognize as genuine. Because all indications were that this was a genuine note, the teller suggested that the note might have been ironed. He had someone take me to the bank's vault, where we checked the note with the more expensive machine there, where the note was found to be, indeed, genuine. Thus, I was able to make my deposit. However, going to the more expensive machine at the vault may not be an option at, say, the supermarket, so ironing Euro notes is probably not a good idea.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:44PM (1 child)
Or maybe iron it under a brown paper bag, to transfer the heat but not allow the hot surface to come in direct contact with the banknote. Try it out and let us know! We'll PayPal you a few Euro to try it out and see how much heat it takes to screw it up badly enough to stop working.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @03:28AM
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday March 15 2020, @03:09AM (1 child)
Our (Canada) plastic money shrinks if you leave it in the dryer.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday March 15 2020, @02:55PM
All pater and plastic money shrinks. It's called inflation. And a crappy exchange rate in Canada's case :-(
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