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| Since I never held a 1'000 CHF note in my hands, I was wondering who hoards these masses of 1'000 CHF notes. | |
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I had one recently in my wallet, due to an incident with a misbehaving ATM.
[I normally keep a bit of cash with me for when I need it, but use my debit card for buying stuff; yet a grand bill is not the kind of cash that's most convenient to have with you] I used that bill as soon as I could, for the next thing I had to buy. The lady at the tea store took it without blinking, and the change is still lasting.
Before that, I last had two of these together with some other large notes in my wallet when I first moved to Switzerland. I had cash changed to CHF before I moved to have enough money to get around at the beginning here before I have a bank account with local cards and can settle a proper money transfer (which is slow us hell with some countries...), as I did not want to depend on not having problems with or incur the costs of using my foreign credit card here.