How do you deal with the foreign money after the travel?

i keep it as souvenir. my last vacation was in Hong Kong. and i thought i used up all the HK dollars in my wallet buying chocolates for my bestfriend and his girlfriend. then, aboard my flight, i realised that i still had 200 HK dollars! darn it. i could've bought the interesting stuff at the HKIA with that. anyways, upon arriving at my house in manila, i just stashed it in my cash box. however, i'm planning to exchange HKD100 into PHP, after all, HKD100 is equivalent to PHP700+ now, and it could buy me lots of coffee and clothes. hehehe. the other HKD100 will be left as souvenir until i can afford (thanks to this stupid global recession) to go back to Hong Kong again

I have never traveled somewhere foreign but want to someday. If it were me though I would keep some as a souvenir and exchange the rest. My fiance has a canadian 20 dollar bill. It looks weird. And i think its canadian.

Hello my friend Youless. I collect foreign coins and notes. I store them in a coin album and have display wallets with the notes in. I have some unique currency that I got in the Cook Islands: a triangular coin and three dollar note. I like to keep a supply one dollar notes that are useful for traveling. Exchange booths give fifty and one hundred dollar notes very typically. Sometimes I keep spare dollars and euros but other left over currency I put into my collection. I exchanged the euros I had from my last trip into British pounds.

Well, depending on the currency and the amount that is left, I will usually deal with it when I get home. If the currency is to a country that I frequently travel to, I will keep it aside for the next trip. If the currency is to a country that I will never be traveling to in a long time to come, then it will depend on the amounts. If it is less than ten dollars, I just keep them for memento sake. Otherwise, if the amount is significant, I will look out for a reasonable rate to change it back to local currency rather than let the money rot in my cupboard.

I have been abroud a couple of times, but if I do have some amount left, I spend them before I go home. I do have some coins left to save for memory. Some of the currency do not longer exist, since they have turned to euvro. I some times do take a look at may albums and remember those coins. It is nice to show your kids one day and tell them about the time I spend that type of money.

we keep the money till next time to have a vacation again.

It actually depends. If the foreign money left with me is in the denomination of 100 to 1000 bills, I would change it to my local currency. If its in small bills like 2 to 10 bills... I would keep it or give it to some friends asking for souvenirs. The last foreign money that I gave to my sisters are the 2 dollar plastic money from Singapore.

If I have any intentions of returning to that particular country any time soon then I will simply keep the foreign currency tucked away in my drawer, if I don't, and I have only a few left, I usually keep it as souvenir hehe

The only foreign money i have right now are the US quarters that i collected when i was still working abroad... i wanted to collect all 51 states... but only got half of them... i sometimes contemplate to dispose of them... but i just do not have the heart to... since i worked so hard finding those coins... so now i keep them inside my closet... and i still hope that i will be able to complete my collection someday...

Hello youless. If I travel abroad and come back with some foreign currency with me, I think that I will trade it back to RMB, but leave some small coins of the foreign country as part of my collection.

For me, it would depend on how much it amounted to. If it was not enough to bother with, I would just keep it as a keepsake from that country. Actually, I have some Mexican paper money that I kept after a trip to Cancun. It was not enough to exchange at the time of the trip, so I just kept it in my wallet, and put it in a box of keepsakes when we got home. I check exchange rates every once in awhile, and think about changing it back to US dollars.

I will keep it for future use as their might be a chance to go that country again for some work & if Banks are having strike at that moment you will find no way then.

I always keep some coins and usually a note of small denomination. An interesting thing ive seen people do is to make a collage type thing out of a load of notes from all over the world. It looks cool.Coins are good though,you can tell alot from a society looking at what they have on thier coins.

I save it as I will go back to that country again.

It all depends on how much I have got left, if it is a large amount then I will take it to the post office and exchange it because they charge 0% commission, if it is only a small amount then I will put it away safely ready for when I travel abroad again, which I will do anyhow, and it's like saving ahead for your next holiday!

If it's quite a bit of money, then I would exchange it back to HK dollar, but if it's not much, then I would keep it in my drawer and hopefully I would go to that place again and would be able to use it.

it would be nice to keep one or two notes just for souvenirs. but sometimes - changing to the local currency is much more worth it - when the exhange rate is high and you could get a lot in your local currency. that is what happened to my japanese yen notes.. i kept them for a while until the exchange rate was quite high, i sold them and- got quite a sum of our local currency.. so.. depending on what currency you're holding - it could be a souvenir and an investment at the same time..

I keep those small amounts as souvenir. Then I exchange the bigger amount on our local currency. I could not afford to keep the big amounts as of this moment because I need it to augment my daily financial needs.

hi there youless. I usually exchange it for my own country`s money, if I do have a big excess. the smaller bill is for my eldest sister for her collection. But the coins I give to red cross or unicef boxes which will be found at the airport, and for sure it will go to help other people.

Hi youless ,foreign money has no value in my country.So if I have foreign currency left after travel.I would prefer to exchange it for Indian currency ,on my return.I think only US dollars are accepted in banks here.Its difficult to get currency of some countries converted at a reasonal price.