Comments on: Travel money – spending the last of your foreign currency

By: Shahlo

Shahlo — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:09:46 +0000

That’s Uzbek Soum! For 800soum can buy a bottle of coce 🙂

By: leah

leah — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:53:40 +0000

honestly, i don’t mind keeping “leftover” money for souvenier 🙂 but just so there won’t be too much letfovers (especially coins), i spend the coins first then the smaller bills then change the rest back to dollars (if there’s still a lot)…

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:48:32 +0000

I like to keep some of the money left behind when traveling. I might go there again and it is handy to at least have some money on hand to go. Failing that it is nice to have a collection of notes and coins from different countries

By: Yenta

Yenta — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:15:58 +0000

I had way too much Swedish kroner left recently and converted the bulk of it into American dollars at the Stockholm airport. Sure, you lose every time you change money, but I am really not a duty free shopper. The amount was $50. That left me with 5 Swedish kroner. I dumped that in the charity envelope on the plane when Icelandair asked for donations. If they can use it, well, I sure can’t.

Sometimes I buy something in the airport, give them my leftover cash and then charge the balance.

And, true to form, when I got home and cleaned out my travel purse, there was 1 Norwegian krone in the bottom. That seems always to happen no matter what I do. I went to Norway, Sweden and Latvia. I did dump all the Latvian Letts on the ferry that I took back to Stockholm.

By: Simon Flood

Simon Flood — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:42:05 +0000

I noticed on my last flight the air hostesses coming around with charity envelopes to collect loose change. Good idea. Stupidly overpriced rubbish is usually what it ends with though yes!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:17:35 +0000

I always forget about the change. I’m pretty good about getting rid of the bills, but I get back and open my wallet and find loads of coins I can’t use.

By: Elle of Solo Female Nomad

Elle of Solo Female Nomad — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:11:19 +0000

I find the post almost comical, as I always desperately try and find items to purchase in the Airport using my last bit of change. It usually is something rubbish! Im all for having some charity box at the gate!

By: Conan

Conan — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:28:39 +0000

What I do is that depending on the airport, we just go on a spending spree for the duty free shopping. You’d be surprised at how much chocolate/candy you can buy with your last couple of krona/euros.

By: Keith Kellett

Keith Kellett — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:12:03 +0000

There’s a charity box in my local branch of Barclays … I usually put any coins in there when I change any notes I have left over back into sterling. If I didn’t bring any notes back, the coins just moulder in the shrapnel jar for ever & ever.

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:26:10 +0000

Glad to see I’m not alone with this one. David’s suggestion about leaving on a table does remind me that we did once leave a very generous tip in an airport fast-food joint – must have been a (pleasant) shock for the waitress…
Steve, good advice to take a bit more. I’ve used that principle too rarely but it does make for a more enjoyable last day, without doubt.