New £5 Notes

[saintpeter48]

I've been to Australia and NZ and they have plastc notes, they are horrible in my opinion! I think that they're easy to lose, very slippery and you can't hold a wad of them (not that I have wads), but 4 or 5 together I found was a nightmare. Anyone else experienced similar?

[EcclesCake]

They are standard issue in Malaysia too, can't say I've experienced any of the issues you have quoted.

[snags]

Useless for wiping your bum too... er, probably.

[jack daniels]

i think its about time we had them her - the paper ones are so unhygienic IMO

Anna x

[Baldric]

Came into circulation yesterday

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/04/new-five-pound-note-plastic-fiver

[askyourgran]

I have t seen one yet but I hear they stick together.

[Baldric]

//“brand new polymer notes can sometimes stick together, but this effect is short-lived once in use”.//

[askyourgran]

Ah thank you baldric, I didn't read your link I shall look out for old new ones for a while.

[jno]

I've had no trouble at all with them. Never lost one (Australia, New Zealand, Canada). Compared with tatty paper ones after a year or two, they're much nicer.

[petal54]

I've used plastic notes in Oz,they're fine.went to Lloyds today they not have them in stock yet.

[Buenchico]

Why do we need new fivers though? Only 7% of cash machines dispense fivers and most people hardly ever use cash these days anyway, do they?

I've been trying to think of when I've used cash within the past month and, apart from a few visits to a burger van, I can't recall ever doing so. I use plastic to pay for my supermarket shopping, to buy a pint in a pub, for a meal in a cafe, for museum admission charges and for just about everything else.

Cash is (almost) dead!

[Mamyalynne]

I only use cash to pay cab fares now (I know some large companies take cards).


I usually have cash in my purse for that reason.

[Jackdaw33]

I still use cash to buy a pint, pay for a newspaper, pay the taxi driver and pay my cleaner.

[Everhelpful]

A £5 coin would have been more sensible.IMO.

[Davemano]

I would have thought that a £5 coin would be more sensible.

[Davemano]

Everhelpful - great minds....

[Buenchico]

Even many Big Issue sellers now accept debit cards:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/30/big-issue-to-give-homeless-people-tap-and-go-terminals-to-preven/

[Mamyalynne]

£5 coins would make a mess of trouser pockets.

[Jackdaw33]

I have noticed that since the coinage downsized I no longer get holes in my pockets.

[douglas9401]

I think my usual 'no thanks' will offset the need for small change when accosted outside the local Spar by a recently arrived vendor of a once worthy magazine.
Their handler will just have to find another way to pay for his car.

[Mamyalynne]

I was thinking if they stayed at the design for the current £5 commemorative coin it would be three times heavier than the pound coin that's all.