I have accumulated quite a lot of different foreign bank notes from all the overseas trips OzBargain keeps posting.
What do you do with yours ?
Know any smart way to store them ?
How Do You Store Your Foreign Currency Notes ?
reddwarf on 07/03/2018 - 12:42
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Surely if you are going to this trouble, you might as well add in a RESTful API so you can future proof access from other devices and allow simpler integration to 3rd party app?
REST? Ptf. Go with SOAP. /s
I hid mine under a drawer, the only way to find it was to completely remove the drawer. Someone stole it and spent it all. Apparently they had been taking small amounts each week and converting them until there was nothing left, I was in hospital at the time so I had no idea what was going on. About 5000 AUD worth of foreign notes at the time. Made for a pretty cheap holiday experience that's for sure, my holiday plans basically went from hotels and shopping to backpacker hostels and looking at foreign buildings for free.
You live in a share house?
How was someone talking them from your house? Were they breaking in? Or are you one of those crazy people who lives in a house with 15 others with no locks?
I keep my Benjamin's in a tight roll in a black gym bag
rubber band and in a drawer
Passport wallet.
Review when i go to places known for great currency exchange rates (eg Vietnam - better than XE) and exchange if i feel the notes have lost value to ME.
In the wallet I carry on trips, and review it before every trip.
You need to watch out for some currencies though, when they update their notes and the older note designs are no longer easily accepted (e.g. GBP recently).i have an old biscuit tin stuffed with notes. coins go into jars.
In a fireproof safe bolted to the concrete slab.
In a jar
I leave mine laying around until I put them somewhere and forget where they are. HeHe, we never keep large sums of foreign notes always less then 20.00 AU. per trip
Envelopes with the country written on it in sharpie.
Usually try to have about a few hundred bucks in each currency I keep.
When I head off to the airport I just take the envelopes for the countries I'm going to, sorted. If I run low I just get more cash out at an ATM in the county, whatever the max withdrawal amount is.
Envelopes are kept in a shoe box in a really high cupboard, I'm 6'6" and have to tippy toe on a chair to reach it (super high ceiling). This way there's no way anyone like the maid can ever reach it.
Can't figure out what to do with coins, have way too many and can't be screwed organising them into their respective countries. I'm guessing there's probably a hundred bucks there at a minimum.
I don't bring coins back - every airport has charity donation vessels in departure, I dump all my coins there.
Lots of countries have the larger value coins now (GBP1, EUR1, etc) and a few of those in your pocket can add up to a reasonable value. If I probably won't be going back to use them in the near future, I try to spend those within the airport and then donate the smaller denominations after that.
I have a lot of different banknotes - I keep them separated in zip-lock bags in a shoebox. Wwen I head off overseas I grab whichever ones I need.
I use them all..
When leaving one country, I'll change the last few dollars to the next countries currency…
Also, by forecasting the last few days' spendings, your in better control, and can be left with only a few dollars left.
Just in an envelope in a drawer. I check it before I start my trip. What smarter way do you envisage? Note down the totals and create a spreadsheet to track the values updated every day?