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\nAfter some scout activity or other – probably from a Christmas market – we have a pile of cash in the house, that we (= Eric) took upon us to deposit. The scouts got their bank transfer, but we haven’t gotten around to doing anything with the cash, because it’s such a giant hassle.<\/p>\n
We pay for all our normal purchases by card, so the cash isn’t going to get used naturally. You might think that I could take it to a bank, but no. Swedish banks don’t work with cash any more. Cash is a valid means of payment but banks don’t like dealing with it, and apparently they are allowed to just say no. <\/p>\n
I managed to deposit the banknotes today. There’s about a twenty ATMs in Stockholm where you can deposit banknotes, and an online map to help you find them. I located one near the office, put in my tidy piles of sorted and aligned banknotes, and that was that.<\/p>\n
A large amount of coins on the other hand is near impossible to get rid of. There appear to be no banks – not a single one – in Stockholm that handles coins. The website of a foreign exchange chain hints that they might be able to take them off our hands – for a 15% fee. That just feels so greedy that I don’t even want to consider it. I’d rather give the money to charity.<\/p>\n
My next hope is that one of the local supermarkets might be willing to take the coins in large enough batches to make it worth the effort of carrying them with me. (For small-denomination coins, the balance of value vs weight and volume is silly.) I know the supermarkets generally do handle cash, but even they might have limits – I’m not sure any of them would be happy to accept, say, half a kilogram of 1-krona coins in a single payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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