I Can't Give This Thing Away In Change!

You get that effect when you put them through a wash. In your case I'd say several times.LOL

The bank doesn't shred currency down here... It gets used until it's dead.... And I mean *DEAD*.

I spent it again today, to the drinking water guy, so now I'm waiting to see how long it takes to come back.

Vic, people don't use washing machines here. Women do laundry the old way, with a lot of elbow grease. The government recently stopped producing paper Q5 notes, and are doing them in polymer now. I'm lucky, I scored 5 consecutive new notes with a printing error on serial number. But, the plastics are pretty unpopular, and I don't have any idea why they're switching over. Our largest banknote is a Q200 note, worth about USD$26.00, and *NO BODY* except the bank will accept them, because nobody has change, and nobody likes the plastic.

To put things in some perspective, when I go to the bank for the weeks spending money, the pile is usually about 4-5 inches thick. I'll take a picture some time.... And that's just a week's spending money.

If it comes home again--you should frame it; it makes a great story!

Well when Australia got Polymer it was unpopular, but we go use to then. They last longer than paper, and out $100 is suppose to last 70 years, $5 about 4 years I read on the RBA website. They are a bit more expesive but in the long run, cheaper. I am not too sure about the pathogen contamination for paper and polymer, manybe that has a factor as well.