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…

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In Australia, they’re made of plastic, so they look just like they did before they went in, only cleaner…

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Put 'em in the dryer and they shrinky dink.

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Throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby you’ve got a stew going

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Put some lettuce in the dryer and it comes out as pineapples?

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American money is made of mostly cotton and linen, so it will wash like any other fabric.

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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.

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From a single wash? Practically unchanged. At worst it will be slightly faded.

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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.

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I think the washing resistance is more so to prevent counterfeiting in which people bleach bills and print them to be higher denominations.

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I thought it was to make sure when money is laundered it doesn’t disintegrate in the machine

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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.

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