If you wash a dollar bill, after you've left it in your pocket, is it then clean?

It’s cleaner, at least. It has been washed, but not sanitized.

That is called money laundering, and it is illegal. lol
Okay..if I must be serious…I would say it is certainly cleaner coming out than going in.

Did you use bleach on those presidents?

If so, then, yes…your cash would be well disinfected, but ONLY, until YOU touch it again. ;-)

Aww, man! @Coloma beat me to the punch.

I’m guessing it is just as clean as your undies.

Cleaner before it went in. I sometimes leave my jeans on overnight soak. Lucky if it doesn’t dissolve into little bits and pieces.

All paper currency, in The United States, has some degree of cocaine on it. This is because money is used and stacked with illegal drugs and cocaine, during both shipment and personally on a person.

Washing money will definetly remove the traces of cocaine.

Cleaner, but in order to kill whatever germs are still on it, you’d have to run it through the dryer. This is assuming your clothes dryer runs at a high enough heat, which most of them do.

I read this whole article once about how if you don’t use bleach when you do laundry, you aren’t killing the bacteria in your underwear. It was one of those scare-type articles to make you think doing laundry only spread germs around. At the end of the article was a little blurb about how most driers run hot enough to kill bacteria still on clothes from the wash, but you know there are people who wouldn’t read that far and would be so grossed out they’d start bleaching everything. Money is probably the same; the dryer would do the trick.

Nope. Now all your clothes are dirty.

Gross.