old money.

i got handed an old $5 note the other day. it wasn't a fantastic old paper one, it was that first plastic one, with the wishy washy colours that people obviously complained about, because it got changed...

back in the good old days we had notes for all the dollar amounts. $1 was brown, $2 was green, $5 - pink-ish, $10 - blue, $20 - orange, $50 kinda yellow, $100 a very boring grey. (some pictured here and others here ). i remember in 1988 i saved up a months pocket money to go to the bank before school (we started school at 9:25am) and get a brand new $2 coin. i showed everyone in my class and all the teachers (i was 8...) and then promptly spent it on a candy induced belly ache...
when i was a teen $5 and higher were changing from paper to plastic. i decided to collect them as they were phased out, and had $88 stuck to my wardrobe door for a good few moths. then one day they were gone, and my sister said the neighbour must have stolen them. we used to leave our back door unlocked. but i was not that naive... wasn't much i could do about it though, but the upshot is i no longer have all bar one of the paper notes...

being handed an old wishy washy just reminded me, that's all.