Where do you stash your cash?

[DirtyDawg]

Well, we do have our quirks, but remember we are not the ONLY holdouts on the metric system - Liberia and Myanmar are keeping us company.

 

I do find it interesting that US citizens who couldn't figure out with a calculator how many inches there are in a mile and insist that the metric system is way too difficult to understand, still manage to buy liquor (liquor and wine are, I think, the only items in the US that have to be sold in metric units).

 

Thom

 

Especially when they are looking to buy Liquor.:D

[YubaSutter]

Well, we do have our quirks, but remember we are not the ONLY holdouts on the metric system - Liberia and Myanmar are keeping us company.

 

I do find it interesting that US citizens who couldn't figure out with a calculator how many inches there are in a mile and insist that the metric system is way too difficult to understand, still manage to buy liquor (liquor and wine are, I think, the only items in the US that have to be sold in metric units).

 

Thom

 

Some soda is also using the metric system. Americans can't live without their 2 liter sodas.

[Buck Turgidson]

When I go ashore I take about 80 to 100 dollars in my wallet.

[grand isle joe]

Some soda is also using the metric system. Americans can't live without their 2 liter sodas.

 

......but they can never get rid of the good old 40 ouncer........a working man's standard.......

[TravelerThom]

Some soda is also using the metric system. Americans can't live without their 2 liter sodas.

Oh, many metric items are sold in the US (eg it is easy to find metric wrenches [otherwise we could not fix our foreign made toys]). But liquor and wine are the only two I can think of that by law can ONLY be sold in metric units.

[DirtyDawg]

Oh, many metric items are sold in the US (eg it is easy to find metric wrenches [otherwise we could not fix our foreign made toys]). But liquor and wine are the only two I can think of that by law can ONLY be sold in metric units.

 

Thom, you're coming over to the 'Dark Side', aren't you? :D

 

And when the cruises line start selling that gold by the centimetre my DW might but some.

Edited December 4, 2014 by DirtyDawg

[skylight]

We use Ozforex travel cards and use the ATM on board it's worth paying the fee for feeling safe. If we are in the Med the ship ATM is in Euros. Then we don't carry to much cash when travelling to the cruise.:)

[OCruisers]

When I go ashore I take about 80 to 100 dollars in my wallet.

 

Hear you! It's always best to have some "walking around" money with you! :D

LuLu

[GUT2407]

Hear you! It's always best to have some "walking around" money with you! :D

LuLu

 

 

Agree,especially in a Port away from home, you just never know when you'll need a service that doesn't take a card.

[grand isle joe]

Agree,especially in a Port away from home, you just never know when you'll need a service that doesn't take a card.

 

In Europe you can get some pretty sweet deals on items if you offer cash (in Euros) .....there is a whole underground economy.;)