Dirty Cash ...

"Many people take no care of their money until they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
[Goethe]

Without getting all maudlin and moosie-faced, this was a particularly poignant quote for me just recently.

Anyway - aside from that - the reason why I have a little photoblip of some random cash on my floor is I have just emptied out my work bag, for the first time in a few months. I keep some travel cash in there, for the countries i'm at most often, along with my passport. I was happy to find some from ages ago, that I thought i'd lost. I plan to make a little art project out of it. I have some denomination note from every country i've ever been to.

The picture reminded me of a day last year in Zurich, at the christmas markets, and there was a little crystal angel I wanted to buy for Monkey, but I'd forgotten to pick up my purse, so just had the random bits of travel cash at the bottom of my bag. I ended up paying for the angel in a combination of Swiss Francs, dollars, euros, pounds and yen. The people in the queue behind me were quite entertained.