My glove after handling $2000 worth of cash. Spoilers, bills are dirty.

    by gamerguy287

    29 Comments

    1. Friendsdontlie88 on

      We used to get people with these down their underwear and bras, I’m not surprised it’s dirty. One of our cashiers grabbed things with tongs and got in trouble.

    2. Soulborg87 on

      so what you’re saying is that I shouldn’t be putting every bill I’ve ever gotten into my mouth and holding onto them like a chipmunk?

    3. weddingwoes13 on

      Coins are worse than paper money. I used to fill the coin dispensers on self checkout machines in retail. Idk how they managed to count the bills with gloves on though.

    4. Sometimes when I get cash that feels grubby I’ll wash it. Same with cash that’s super “soft” and needs some crispness. A little hand soap does the trick and yes, money is filthy. The water always ends up dingy grey or black.

    5. Not long ago we deposited $1700 in $1 bills. Each bill is supposed to weigh around 1g, so I weighed the bills rather than counting them.
      When they were machine counted at the bank, it came up to be around $20 short of the amount that I weighed.

      So in about 1700 bills there was nearly an ounce of dirt, grime, and finger grease. Yuck.

    6. supershutze on

      Always assume that at some point someone wiped their ass with that bill.

    7. When I was a kid I tried eating a dollar bill. I basically just chewed on it for five minutes and then gave up and spat it out. I feel nauseated thinking about it now.

    8. As someone who works in the Cage at a Casino, we go through a LOT of hand sanitizer; lol.

    9. Of course bills are dirty, they’re paper that’s transferred between millions of people while never being washed.

    10. Absolutely hate when people pay in cash just for this reason. It’s so nasty.

    11. missestater on

      When I was a banker I washed my hands like 12 times a day. During Covid and the coin shortage I had to roll hundreds of dollars in quarters. Now that is fucking gross. I wore gloves for that, but can’t count cash out fast with gloves.

    12. ALLoftheFancyPants on

      Bills are filthy. But some of that green tint is almost certainly the ink and not *just* random grime

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