Left-over currency? Ms. Pac-Man wants it for the Red Cross

Two Swedish airports have found a new way to relieve departing travelers of their unneeded local currency. A bank of videogames, set up at Stockholm’s Arlanda and Goteborg’s Landvetter airports have been set up to accept any currency at all to play Ms. PacMan and other arcade games; all the proceeds go to the Swedish Red Cross. MORE

On our recent trip to Turkey, we found a somewhat different approach; in Istanbul’s airport there are machines set up by a new company, Travelers Box. These machines allow you to deposit your left-overs and use the funds toward gift cards from stores and websites (including Amazon) or to have the funds deposited to your PayPal account. We did that with ours; it was in PayPal within a day. So far, they’re in Milan, Manchester, and Tbilisi, Georgia also.

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