Nasty bills

[Lt92]

I reckon you could call it a pet peeve, but our currency bills are nasty. We all have seen where folks have kept their bills...
I wash my hands after handling money as soon as possible. Now I can gut a deer and eat a bologna sandwich without washing if I need to, but dang, people are nasty.
Think me crazy but most of the new bills I bring home I put away until I can fix them. Crumpled/wrinkled, corners folded and wet bills are just nasty. Honestly I feel our citizens don't respect the currency. Well when I get enough of them I iron them.
Think I'm crazy??

yes

 

[jav]

I use both cash and card dirty money don’t bother me

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I think that if money was bad enough to cause major health issues,, the people who want a lot of it would be worried more than others. (Think of the wealthy, the politicians, etc)

Those folks don't actually handle the cash . . . they have people for that.

 

[Larryburford]

" Titty bank" ha! that's a good one.

 

[Joe Reilly]

" Titty bank" ha! that's a good one.

Variable interest rates, depending on individual “bank”.

 

[Yaworski]

I have never owned a hankerchief

A gentleman should always carry a clean, pressed, and folded handkerchief in case a lady should start to cry.

 

[375hh1973]

A gentleman should always carry a clean, pressed, and folded handkerchief in case a lady should start to cry.

Gun, spare mag, knife, phone, keys...

Got enough crap, shes on her own

 

[375hh1973]

Amen to that! I always told my grandpa if you can't stand that snot in your head why would you put it in your pocket?!

Do some research about those lemon wedges hanging off your iced tea glass in a restaurant if you want a list of gross dirty things.

Lemons and the menus themselves.

That being said, I love me some lemons in my water.

 

[Richbaker]

Not to mention the cocaine and other stuff.....

 

[peachhead]

Not to mention the cocaine and other stuff.....

Back in the '90s, didn't they used to say that 95% of all currency had cocaine residue? (Or something like that)
My daughter cannot stand to touch metal. I get a lot of change from her that way.

 

[Yaworski]

Gun, spare mag, knife, phone, keys...

Got enough crap, shes on her own

Manners maketh the man.

 

[Watertender]

During cash theft investigations I have recovered cash from many "bodily hiding places". Some I knew the location because of covert camera surveillance. Typically it would go into a pocket, shoe, bag once removed from register or safe. But there were investigations when the surveillance would reveal the cash being stuffed into crotches, cleavage, and yes even ones butt crack. You always have them provide admission to the first time, and how many times they took cash up until the time they concealed the cash on them during the interview. Some bills were pretty soggy. People sweat heavily when nervous.....and some get gassy. Talk about dirty money.....

When I worked at a maximum security prison I was going past the mess hall where a group of prisoners who worked in the kitchen were being frisked before they went back to their cells.

One had a very large bulge in the front of his pants and it wasn't what he was given at birth. A CO pulled the con's pants down and found several slices of lunch meat wrapped around his schwanstuker and secured in place with a couple of rubber bands.

I almost started a mini riot when I said
"That gives a whole new meaning to ham off the bone doesn't it"... Most of the CO's laughed but one got an attitude with me and I told him to go crap in his hat...

 

[375hh1973]

Manners maketh the man.

ok

 

[gnappi]

Back in the '90s, didn't they used to say that 95% of all currency had cocaine residue? (Or something like that)
My daughter cannot stand to touch metal. I get a lot of change from her that way.

I've heard of metal hypersensitivities but thought them rare but it seems as if they're not!

 

[Kevin]

GREAT points, I Agree 100%. The necessity for cash is more frequent than most realize. From down terminals, to server crashes and natural or man made disasters it happens. I always have cash on me so no biggie.

I was at Home Depot yesterday. They were having computer problems and the terminals were working, just very slowly.

At that time they were not taking cash, card only.

But yes, you and @contender do have valid points for needing cash. I’m not arguing against cash at all.

 

[Yaworski]

ok

It's not for your wife. Sheesh! It's for the young widow who breaks down crying because she doesn't know how to put air in her tire. Give her the handkerchief, she hugs you in thanks, and brown chicken-brown cow.

 

[375hh1973]

It's not for your wife. Sheesh! It's for the young widow who breaks down crying because she doesn't know how to put air in her tire. Give her the handkerchief, she hugs you in thanks, and brown chicken-brown cow.

Can and have gotten same results without said handkerchief.

 

[Fox Mike]

I have never owned a hankerchief

Never dawned on me to carry snot around in my pocket

So you must be a "wipe it on your sleeve" if your nose is 'runny'.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

she hugs you in thanks, and brown chicken-brown cow.

You mean "bow chicka bow wow".......

 

[vito]

On another note an over the counter (OTC) product called Phisohex was overused by my sister who started getting all kinds of skin and respiratory infections.

My sister's doctor in the 60's told her to stop using it. When she did her problems cleared up.

Actually Phisohex was an outstanding product for disinfecting hands and skin and was routinely used in hospitals for staff "scrubbing" and for preparing the surgical site on the patient. It was discontinued when it was found that it could harm infants by passing through the skin and afffecting the brain. Betadine replaced Phisohex sometime in the 1970's but I can't recall exactly when that took place.

As to cloth hankerchiefs, they always seemed disgusting to me even when I was a kid in the 1950's. I always carry a pack of disposable tissues in my left rear pants pocket, and throw the tissue away right after using it. My eyes tear a lot and so I always to have a tissue handy. If my "lady" starts to cry, I would hand her a tissue and not ask for it back.

 

[coachk64]

The only time I was worried about germs on currency was at the very beginning of Covid. I sold a snowblower to a private party for a couple hundred bucks, and when i brought the bills in the house I immediately sprayed them with alcohol. After we got further into the pandemic and learned more about it I stopped worrying.

 

[turd]

I just wash my hands whenever I get back from shopping anywhere. Cash usually stays in my money clip long enough that it likely has mostly my germs on it or they die in my pocket. Credit cards and debit cards don't get handed to anyone else, so those also have mostly my own germs on them.

 

[Yaworski]

Can and have gotten same results without said handkerchief.

That's what all the incels claim.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Well this thread is about bills....if it were about coins......i've seen a group of jarheads and squids drain pockets to make a stack of pesos on top of a Red Horse Ale for a "show".....no worry about germs from the receiver of the pesos.

 

[375hh1973]

So you must be a "wipe it on your sleeve" if your nose is 'runny'.

Either snot rocket it out of my nose or use kleenex, paper towel, etc

Not difficult

 

[JohnL]

Our currency is on nice rag paper. I suppose washing in the sink would not hurt it. I never seem to keep it around long enough to do that!

 

[Jeepnik]

Our currency is on nice rag paper. I suppose washing in the sink would not hurt it. I never seem to keep it around long enough to do that!

Sent quite a few through the washer. They all survive and once dry you couldn't tell. Hey wait, am I admitting to being a money launderer?

 

[KIR]

Decades ago (I turn 81 in May, so I guess I can say that) I read an article about the percentage (?) of coaine that was on our currency. Sooo, go lick a bill?

 

[epags]

I have seen a sign that said "NO sock or bra money accepted"...

When I lived in Naples, Italy I dealt with a used funiture dealer who kept all his cash wrapped under a bandage wrap on his leg. Figured if robbed, the crook would not want to peel off a nasty bandage....I never gave a thought as to the sanitation of the money. And I am only 85 years old now.

Our currency is on nice rag paper. I suppose washing in the sink would not hurt it. I never seem to keep it around long enough to do that!

Sent quite a few through the washer. They all survive and once dry you couldn't tell. Hey wait, am I admitting to being a money launderer?
My wife, after doing the laundry often finds bills I keep in the watch pocket of my jeans. have to wrestle her for them back.

 

[Jeepnik]

Decades ago (I turn 81 in May, so I guess I can say that) I read an article about the percentage (?) of coaine that was on our currency. Sooo, go lick a bill?

Want to here something really scary? Fentanyl is now pretty common on paper money. And it takes a heck of a lot less of that to do damage. Ever notice that more and more grocery cashiers and bank tellers are wearing disposable gloves? It isn't fear of disease, but rather drug exposure.