Four years of entering notes on EBT

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:50 pm

Phaseolus wrote:
lazza wrote: That's 436 notes I need to enter in 2006
Well, Lazza, it looks like you are "entering" more posts, than bills on EBT

I like talking more than I like spending

Klazu · Post by **Klazu** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:56 pm

lazza wrote:I like talking more than I like spending

Registering notes doesn't mean spending. Not at all. In my case EBT has made me more stingy. I don't want to spend any more money than I have to, because then I have less money (notes) to exchange again in some local bank.

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:16 pm

Klazu wrote:Registering notes doesn't mean spending. Not at all. In my case EBT has made me more stingy. I don't want to spend any more money than I have to, because then I have less money (notes) to exchange again in some local bank.

Same for me.
I always want to get as many notes as possible

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:42 pm

@Klazu and Fons

You both have the advantage of living in a Euro-country. It's really not so easy in the UK.... So in the end, I mostly register notes I get before I travel to Europe. If I go to a bank to take out €500 in €5 notes, and to then pay them back in, I would soon lose a lot of money, because of exchange rates (buy/sell rates) and commission....

Also, as most of my travel to Europe is on business (5-6 times a year), it's hard to pay everything in cash, as that means I pay immediately (whereas on a credit card, I can claim my expenses back before the money has gone from my own account). So I end up paying hotel bills on a card, and only for taxis and meals (and parking fines!) by cash

Oh, the challenges of being a UK EBTer

daniellez · Post by **daniellez** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:40 pm

lazza wrote:Oh, the challenges of being a UK EBTer

Yes you certainly have many challenges to face. It would be a lot easier if the UK joined the euro too, but I don't see that happen soon.....

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:11 pm

daniellez wrote:
lazza wrote:Oh, the challenges of being a UK EBTer
Yes you certainly have many challenges to face. It would be a lot easier if the UK joined the euro too, but I don't see that happen soon.....

Me neither...

And tracking GBP just isn't the same...

But at least my notes get to travel a long way with me, even if they don't get hit (I try to always make sure that the notes I get in the UK are spent abroad, and that the notes I bring back are those that I picked up while I'm away... even if it then takes a long time for me to spend what I bring back).

daniellez · Post by **daniellez** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:24 pm

lazza wrote:And tracking GBP just isn't the same...

True, I just checked DoshTracker today, but there are only 201646 notes entered. Besides, you can only get national hits (unless you say Britain consists of five countries: Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland

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j3paris · Post by **j3paris** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:37 pm

Since we're on the subject, I was in London over New Year's and I must admit I let several opportunities to track pounds go by (whereas with euros, it would be unthinkable!). At a bar with friends I did track the whip round, but afterwards, knowing DoshTracker, I just didn't bother. Plus the site is very fussy about postcodes and locations, so I finally just entered everything I had as Harrow (just over the line into Middlesex), which is where I was staying. This includes a few pound notes I'd gotten in France, since the site doesn't allow places outside the UK.

It's a shame DoshTracker isn't brought up to its full potential, but I get the feeling there aren't many people behind the site, so it's a noble effort anyway. We are so spoiled by the awesome EBT site that anything would pale in comparison!

And I remember really missing EBT while I was in Australia...there doesn't seem to be any site at all for tracking Ozzie dollars (at least at the time, and I sure searched the Web before I left!)

querty · Post by **querty** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:30 pm

After three months (january, february and march 2006) we had entered 2 553 761 notes. That means that we will enter around 10 215 044 notes this year. I hope it will be more but this also means that we are still on schedule to enter more than 10 million notes in one year.

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:52 am

lazza wrote:
Klazu wrote:
lazza wrote:This gives 17,600,000 notes (48,000 per day average)
I don't think, but I sure hope so...
All we need to do is each multiply our own "notes entered in 2005" by 2.27x

That's 436 notes I need to enter in 2006

I just ran my NIG stats for the first time in while, and it just occured to me I surpassed my personal target for 2006 on my recent trip to Germany. 474 notes entered in 2006 (no more to come, as I'm not travelling again this year....

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So, I though I would check on our predictions for notes to be entered in 2006:

querty: 10,000,000+
Klazu: 15,000,000
daniellez: 10,000,000+
Fons: 15,000,000
FVS: 12,775,000
lazza: 17,600,000

Current status (08:49 on 14th December): 23,698,585 notes entered in total
Notes entered up to the end of 2005: 12,765,721
Total so far in 2006: 10,932,864