ADMISSION: GUILTY of money laundering! I got cash at the grocery store, came home and

[cornball 24]

cleaned it with disinfecting wipes.😱

[tanyev]

1. Be careful how you phrase that or the Trump campaign will call you with a job offer.

[Wawannabe]

2. Lol!

[MineralMan]

3. You can wash US paper currency, either using dishwashing detergent in the sink

or in your washing machine. It can be dried in a clothes dryer, too, and even ironed if you want nice crisp, flat bills.

It's pretty darned rugged, that stuff. I found all that out by accidentally washing some cash I had put in a shirt pocket. When i unloaded the dryer, there were my fives and ones, all clean and dry.

US Currency is very durable.

Coins, too, can be washed, of course. Just put them in a collander, and then into the sink with some Dawn dishwashing liquid. Shake the collander around a bit to jostle the coins, then leave them to soak and rinse thoroughly with cold water. Then, spread them out on paper towels or newspaper and let them air dry. You can put them in the clothes washer and dryer, too, but they're very noisy.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I've done that several times myself. I suspect the strength of the paper

Is due to the paper being made of cotton and linen fibers.

[MineralMan]

5. Yes, the paper is very strong, due to the fibers in it.

I'm sure most people have accidentally laundered their paper money. I've always seen it survive just fine. It might be best to use the delicate cycle in the washer, though, and maybe put the money in a lingerie mesh bag for laundering.

[yellowcanine]

6. I have laundered money in my pants pocket in the wash.

I had to lay the bills out to dry. Fortunately I did not get caught even though I was a repeat offender.

[csziggy]

7. If you live in LA, you could make a job out of that!

Odd hotel jobs
By Judy Mandell
Nov. 22, 2009
12 AM

There’s more to providing hotel services than sometimes meets the eye. Here are some of the more unusual behind-the-scenes hotel jobs.

Coin polishers

Rob Holsen is the official “coin washer” at San Francisco’s Westin St. Francis Hotel. In 1935, general manager Dan London noticed that women attending weekly fashion shows at the hotel were soiling their white gloves on the change they used to pay for lunch, so he decided that all coins used at the St. Francis would be washed.

“In recent years, when I was a cashier at the hotel, we were required to segregate ‘dirty money’ from clean,” Holsen says. “Anyone who was observed giving dirty money to guests was admonished according to the St. Francis Clean Money Policy.

The ‘dirty money’ was returned to the general cashier for washing and reissue.”

Although credit cards have replaced cash and cellphones have replaced pay phones, coins still circulate. “We continue the tradition of coin washing because it represents a tradition of elegance of times past,” he says.

More hotel odd jobs: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-22-la-tr-quirkyjobs22-2009nov22-story.html