Money laundering

[PeteXXX]

I chucked my riding kit in the washing machine this evening after a fairly sweaty ride. I'd popped a tenner in the button down pocket of my shorts before I'd gone just in case I needed ice cream or cake.

Post wash, I remembered about the aforementioned tenner. No sign of it! Checked the inside of the drum.. Nope.
flapped all the damp laundry about to see if bits of tenner dropped out. Nope.
Nothing. Must have dissolved, thought I.

Then I remembered that I'd put in the ID pouch in my backpack!

Phew!

 

[classic33]

I chucked my riding kit in the washing machine this evening after a fairly sweaty ride. I'd popped a tenner in the button down pocket of my shorts before I'd gone just in case I needed ice cream or cake.

Post wash, I remembered about the aforementioned tenner. No sign of it! Checked the inside of the drum.. Nope.
flapped all the damp laundry about to see if bits of tenner dropped out. Nope.
Nothing. Must have dissolved, thought I.

Then I remembered that I'd put in the ID pouch in my backpack!

Phew!

You'll be safe when the new notes come out

Edited to add the issue date
The new fiver will be issued on 13 September 2016.

 

[jefmcg]

UK is going polymer. So sometime soon, UK notes won't dissolve in acid.

Edit: Jinx!

 

[Levo-Lon]

My friend washed her phone a while back ,very clean but broken lol..
the new notes should be great as i hate tatty sweaty dirty old money,unless i have a lot of it of course

 

[TheDoctor]

Someone as disorganised as, well, as me will attest that money survives washing machines perfectly well. Passports are never quite the same again though.

 

[jefmcg]

Aside: Australia pioneered polymer banknotes. The first ones passed every test the Mint could devise; but they melted in the oven. We had a compost bin made from recycled $10 notes. Most expensive thing I have bought.

 

[PeteXXX]

My friend washed her phone a while back ,very clean but broken lol..
the new notes should be great as i hate tatty sweaty dirty old money,unless i have a lot of it of course

My Xperia is supposed to be waterproof.. I've yet to test it on an 800rpm spin though

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

UK is going polymer.

Will we still be able to roll them up for the "sniff"?

 

[classic33]

Will we still be able to roll them up for the "sniff"?

Answer seems to be No.
http://www.thenewfiver.co.uk/

 

[vickster]

UK is going polymer. So sometime soon, UK notes won't dissolve in acid.

Edit: Jinx!

September for the fiver. My mate working at the BoE has been responsible for the project. Tenner next year IIRC

 

[Sharky]

September for the fiver. My mate working at the BoE has been responsible for the project. Tenner next year IIRC

My old boss had worked for the BofE. He told me that he had BofE staff account with cheque book. But often shops refused to take them thinking they were not a "real " bank!

 

[MrGrumpy]

Plastic fivers ??? Could of swore that we already had them ?? Ones I`ve seen are plastic feeling and have a clear patch on them as well ??

 

[Globalti]

Plastic bank notes in the smaller denominations have been in use in Nigeria for about 15 years since the notes get handled a lot and vigorously in wet weather by market traders and bus touts. There's nothing more disgusting or insanitary than a limp, damp, filthy stinking bank note.

I can't be bothered to look it up but I think they are made by a British company called De La Rue.

 

[Sharky]

They don't anymore. They shut their retail arm down earlier this year.

I used to have a Bank of England cheque book for work but they stopped that about 8 years ago.

Think my old boss must have been at the BofE pre 1980.

 

[Vidor06]

Northern Bank in NI produced a run of plastic fivers about 10 years ago. They claimed that the notes were indestructible. They werent.
A group of us get together and play poker and we call it the 'Manky Fiver Invitational' as we put in a fiver at the start, play for chips and the winner claims all the fivers. One of the Northern Bank fivers, which the shops wont accept due to damage, is always played for and the winner can then use it to pay into the next game as they cant spend it anywhere.