Same here.
In my cashiering days, I was also a bit compulsive about facing bills in my drawer.
Thirded.
(And Seanette, I totally blame it on all the years I worked retail!)
My current wallet holds cards only. There is a little pocket where I could put a single bill folded over twice in.
I don’t think I have withdrawn cash, other than travelling out of the country, in over 2 years.
What do you do with it between making the transaction and getting back to the car? Or do you only use cash at drive-in businesses?
Mine is ideally sorted by size of bill, larger ones in back, right side up and faces front, large folds or bends more or less straightened; but while shopping I often just put change in there however it comes and sort the bills sometime later, and I don’t bother with minor creases and wrinkles.
Wadded up and stuffed in a pants pocket, most likely. The only time I use anything other than $20 is in Vegas and the like, when I carry $1 & $2 bills as tips for the cocktail waitresses. Those would go in a shirt pocket, so as not to over-cram my slim wallet.
I chose the “somewhat organized” option because euro notes are color and size coded unlike US bills so you don’t need to sort them strictly to see what’s there.
Ah - now I understand the question better. I haven’t been to the US for quite a while and this had slipped my memory. Have I (now) got it right that all US banknotes are the same size and color?
I rarely carry more than 3 or 4 notes - anything less than £5 is a coin; and since COVID, cards are pretty much universal in the UK.
Notes are folded so they fit one side of the wallet, no particular order. If I’m carrying a second currency, that goes in the other side. So: somewhat organized.
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More recent US paper currency has some color, but not a lot. All denominations are the same size/shape. It’s my understanding that the visually impaired use a system of how bills are folded to make distinguishing what’s in their wallet easier.
Per the above, there is now some slight color variation:
But not like euro notes at all.
Man, you answered my question before I even had a chance to ask it. Here’s what the Bank of England does - see the 4th block of questions:
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I had never checked it out before but yeah, much the same thinking for Euro notes - see 1.2 of
I always order my “bank notes” from lowest to highest (or highest to lowest, depending on where you start) but I really don’t give a damn about orientation or wrinkles or the like - so midway between two choices on the poll.
Same here. I do sometimes put the change from a purchase in without slotting it between already-present bills by denomination, but I typically re-sort it not too much later when I’m at home and think about it.
Carry around a lot of two-dollar bills, do you?
I more or less have them in order, ones on top, but if I stash a bill in the wrong place I don’t bother to sort them again. Not that I touch my cash more than once a week.
Cash goes into my money clip, which is carried in the same pocket as my wallet (left-front, if you ever target me for pickpocketing). Bills are organized largest on the outside, smallest on the inside of the fold, facing the same direction. Heads are usually up, but it’s not mandatory.
Of course, these days I rarely carry more than 50-60 bucks, and sometimes the same bills stay in the clip for a couple of weeks.
My wallet has two bill compartments. Twenties and tens are in one compartment, fives and ones in the other, with all bills (usually) in the same orientation. There’s generally less than $100 in my wallet, unless I’m travelling and feel the need to carry more.
Um…yes! That’s it! I totally didn’t forget which president is on which bill!
(And maybe Jackson does deserve to be carried around in his head, the douchebag.)
I just checked my wallet this morning. I have fifteen in twos ($30) in there right now.
Slight hijack:
Am I the only one who’s waiting for Samuel L. Jackson to say, “What the fuck is in your muthafuckin’ wallet?” or something similar?
Stopped by the ATM to pick up some $5s and $20s. The 5s all came out faced; the 20s were all jumbled. None of either were new.
So of course I had to rearrange the 20s before they went into their binder clip. Cash is a PITA.