Currency Buy-Back for Frequent Travellers: Hold or Sell?

People who travel several times a year face a genuine question: hold foreign currency between trips or sell it back each time? The answer is a working system. Hold the currencies you reliably reuse, and put the rest through a currency buy-back service such as the one Travel FX provides.

The two-pile method

Pile one: currencies with a trip booked or near-certain, kept in labelled envelopes. Pile two: everything else, sold back while notes are current and rates are quotable.

Review twice a year

Plans change, and a currency held for a trip that never happens should move to pile two at the next review.

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