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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

England now has a plastic £5.00 note.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/people-are-using-britains-new-plastic-money-to-play-vin-1787657733

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

jerryc41 wrote:

England now has a plastic £5.00 note.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/people-are-using-britains-new-plastic-money-to-play-vin-1787657733

I wonder how easily it bends in the wallet?

braindamage Loc: Appley Bridge, Lancs, U.K.

Apparently you can put them in the washing machine. However, they shrink if you put them in the tumble dryer!

chrisscholbe wrote:

I wonder how easily it bends in the wallet?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

braindamage wrote:

However, they shrink if you put them in the tumble dryer!

Kinda like inflation.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

Have you seen our Canadian money lately, closest thing to plastic without being plastic.

You have to be very careful a $20 purchase could cost you $40 and you would never know it until it's your turn to buy the next round!!

Swede

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Swede wrote:

Have you seen our Canadian money lately, closest thing to plastic without being plastic.

You have to be very careful a $20 purchase could cost you $40 and you would never know it until it's your turn to buy the next round!!

Swede

I'll remember that.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

What we need is elastic money, so it can stretch further.

Tigger1 Loc: Surrey, BC Canada

One day there will be no currency as we know it today, it will all be digital. Long after I die, I hope.

Bkh42 Loc: N.I. UK

jerryc41 wrote:

England now has a plastic £5.00 note.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/people-are-using-britains-new-plastic-money-to-play-vin-1787657733

The plastic five pound note would remind me of "toy" money. It is smaller in size and an artificial feel to it.
Bkh42

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bkh42 wrote:

The plastic five pound note would remind me of "toy" money. It is smaller in size and an artificial feel to it.
Bkh42

I used to go to England every couple of years, and I'd usually bring some paper money home with me. One year when I went back, I handed someone a £1.00 note, and he looked surprised. That was after the switch to the pound coin. I still have a bunch of shillings. I started keeping them after the switch to decimal. They should have kept the name "shilling." They kept "pound," so why not "shilling"?

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

jerryc41 wrote:

I used to go to England every couple of years, and I'd usually bring some paper money home with me. One year when I went back, I handed someone a £1.00 note, and he looked surprised. That was after the switch to the pound coin. I still have a bunch of shillings. I started keeping them after the switch to decimal. They should have kept the name "shilling." They kept "pound," so why not "shilling"?

Whatever happened to farthing.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

John_F wrote:

Whatever happened to farthing.

Good question. I guess it went the way of the penny farthing bicycle.