{"id":1117,"date":"2020-05-26T15:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2022-08-26T23:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T22:20:53","slug":"money-laundering-without-getting-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Money Laundering, without getting arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m sorry if you have arrived here expecting to find ways of recycling some ill-gotten gains. You will have to look elsewhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post is about something a little more useful to most of the population: how to keep your coins clean and COVID-free with the minimum of fuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, i know about contactless payments and the move to a cashless society, but many people still use cash and need a way to clean the coins may may receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fair warning<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Oh yes, this post relates to sorting out coins<\/strong>. It might work for the new polymer note, but I’m not going to risk mine. For them, it’s still a once-over with a wet-wipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to coins<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My initial attempts at coin cleaning uses a small tub and a mild, as in a very <\/strong>small squirt in in a couple of inches of water, bleach solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was OK, and I know from science background, in particular water treatment and disinfection, that no bacteria or virus was going to survive more than a few seconds it such a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it was a bit of a faff, to use a technical phrase, and I knew at some point I would spill the the bleach solution somewhere I unhelpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really wanted to find a way cleaning coins as part of an existing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good, but not good enough<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I tried using wet-wipes as part of the post outdoor exercise wipedown (fiddly, messy and probably not that effective) including the coins in the was washing-up (can you actually lose a coin in a washing up bowl? I could…) and again I’m not sure how effective it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer to to a money launderer’s dreams<\/h4>\n\n\n
\n
\"\"
The answer to a money launderer’s prayer?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Enter the dishwasher. It ticked lots of boxes: Hot? 70C, Lots cleaning power? If it can remove oven baked residues it’s good enough for me, Time? A typical wash cycle is around 60 minutes, plenty of time for the mandatory two rounds of “Happy Birthday”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only downside? how to stop coins getting lost. Remember we are talking about someone who could lose coins in a bowl of washing up!<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"A
OK, It’s a sock bag, but who’s counting?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Happily a repurposed sock washing bag, the sort used to keep all the socks together in a washing machine, provided the answer .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the result<\/h4>\n\n\n
\n
\"Two
Before and After. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I expected the laundered coins to be clean, but not that clean. The local chippie noticed straight away, as did the newsagent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seriously made me wonder just how clean our everyday objects are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She Who Must Be Obeyed who is a touch clean-freak, meant in a kindly way, refused to handle any more coins until they had had the treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I can’t say I blame her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve got any COVID stories like this that you’d like to share, just drop me a line and I’ll slot them in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Windmill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sorry if you have arrived here expecting to find ways of recycling some ill-gotten gains. You will have to look elsewhere This post is about something a little more useful to most of the population: how to keep your coins clean and COVID-free with the minimum of fuss. Yes, i know about contactless payments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[18,15,17],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-covid-19"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Windmill","author_link":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/?author=2"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajodT-i1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windmillinsights.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}