genuine question, because I forgot a $20 with the laundry at work and I don’t know if the laundry is going to look green or if I’m going to get a white $20 back and clean clothes…
In Australia, they’re made of plastic, so they look just like they did before they went in, only cleaner…
Put 'em in the dryer and they shrinky dink.
Throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby you’ve got a stew going
Put some lettuce in the dryer and it comes out as pineapples?
American money is made of mostly cotton and linen, so it will wash like any other fabric.
In Canada, our cash is plastic. You have another chance if you wash it. It’s dead if you put it in the dryer though.
From a single wash? Practically unchanged. At worst it will be slightly faded.
Bills are made to be able to go through the wash for the exact reason that yours ended up in the wash, people carry them around in their pockets and it’s easy to miss or forget about. The bill might look slightly more worn but it won’t have all the color washed out or anything like that, assuming you didn’t dump it in a load of whites with a ton of bleach. It shouldn’t hurt your clothes either.
I think the washing resistance is more so to prevent counterfeiting in which people bleach bills and print them to be higher denominations.
I thought it was to make sure when money is laundered it doesn’t disintegrate in the machine
It functions that way as well, but durability for every day use is also a consideration in the material choice. Bills being uncounterfeitable isn’t particularly useful if they’re constantly being removed from circulation because someone left a bill in their jeans when they washed them.
Sounds like you’re engaging in money laundering
The laundry will be light pink, the green color of the US bank note is actually an optical illusion deliberately put there as a counterfitting meassure, they use red dye but only the reverse side of the dye to make it appear green, it is similar to red/green color blindness.
Then when you launder the money, the dye gets jumbled and returns to it’s red color, this is mostly noticable on the normal laundry since dollar bills.
Eh. If it’s an old US bill it might come out a bit more ragged and fragile, but it won’t destroy the money or your laundry.
Do it enough and the money would disintegrate, but a single wash won’t be a problem, just plan on being gentle when you extract it just in case.
it’ll be fine. might be wadded if it’s old. won’t bleed color on your clothes
