Bocket money brailler, is it really useful?

Hi,

I've not used this device but I have done a couple of strategies for identifying paper money over the years. My primary one is to use a folding method. For example don't fold a $1 bill. Fold a $5 bill in half and fold a $10 bill in half the long way, the opposite of the $5 bill.

You can also braille on the corner of a bill by hand if you have a slate and stylus. You don't actually need a dedicated machine for this. I have done that also but the braille markings don't last real long if you end up carrying the bill for a long time. Overall as you said, I don't carry that much cash anymore

Unfortunately, this device does not work very well. You end up putting the money into the machine and you put the number of the denomination of the bill onto it, but it tends to squish the Braille a bit so it doesn’t really work as well as it might in theory. I also use a folding method identify my bills. The thing about Braille your bills is that you would still need someone to tell you what they are initially in order to borrow them. So the solution didn’t work great for me. But if you want to give us a shot, you certainly could.

WTH is the orbit research iBill? I remember that in canada cnib has a $10 bank note reader device too, so I wonder why theirs costs +$100 for usd? Or is it a completely different product.

About a decade ago, when I was in guide dog school, there was an older gentleman from Canada, who was showing me all of his Canadian folding money. All of it was brailled, and according to him, it comes that way.
Canadian folding money is interesting, because the paper feels a lot like credit card receipt paper, rather than US mint. A shame the rest of the world doesn't adopt this strategy, it would make things a lot easier.

LOL, no need for Braille on my cash—it always finds its own way out of my pocket!

I use an app called Cash Reader. Then use the folding method for my wallet. And the wallet I have is long enough to put $1 totally unfolded.

I’m going to try my best to answer your question about how to fold money. So I’m in the US. So this is very specific to our particular denominations. The one dollar bill I keep completely opened. A five dollar bill is folded in half the fatter way. A $10 bill is folded in half like a five but then folded again so in quarters that way. And then for a $20 bill I fold it in half the long way the skinnier way. I haven’t gotten to anything bigger than a $20 bill as they don’t carry around $50 bills or $100 bills. I hope this helps make sense for you. The only thing is it because I don’t use any type of app in my phone to identify the bills themselves, I need to have someone cited tell me what the denominations are in order for me to fold them appropriately and then place them into the separate compartments in my wallet for each bill. So for example, I have the ones in a specific apartment fives in a specific apartment that tends in a specific apartment in the 20s and a specific department. I’ll keep them separated to know what’s in my wallet I’m paying for things. I hope this helps you. The money, Braille or device that I was talking about is something you literally put a denomination into and then there’s a little key that you press down that’s supposed to impulse that number of that bill onto your money. That’s the thing that squishes the Braille overtime. Because it doesn’t really impose it very clearly. I love this is like I said specifically US money not for many other country as I don’t live anywhere else or have any other country money to test this. That thing is called the packet money broiler. But I know which device somebody was talking about in the previous comment where there’s one that actually will speak the denomination to you when you put money into the underneath side of the unit and push a button on top that’s someone that takes a simple single AAA battery. I could never get that thing to work properly for me. It kept constantly giving me an error message every time I put a bill into it. I actually got one through my grandfather as he was a veteran so he ended up getting one for free even though he didn’t end up needing that because his vision loss wasn’t to the point that he couldn’t read his money. He ended up getting one of those NLS talking book players too, and he hated it. He had my mom sent it back anyway that’s very specific, but I hope I was able to help you in somewhere. I know that was totally specific to the US is that’s where I’ve had my experiences, but I hope that helps.

Hi,
I use an app like Seeing AI to identify my money, then I use a small keychain labeler to put the denomination in Braille, in one of the upper corners.
I used to fold my money but No longer do, since adopting this New method which I’ve used for a number of years now & It works quite well.
The keychain labeler can be purchased on Amazon.

Long ago, I did sometimes put braille on my paper money. However, I mainly use the folding. I also use money clips, sometimes just a bundle clip, and keep them organized. I also use Seeing AI at times to figure a bill out.
I came up with my own various ways of folding, some of them folded diagonally on one side. For me, the largest bills are folded the least.

Along with folding my money, I put it in very specific order in my wallet. I've been doing things this way for over 20 years without any trouble.

I don't know what Egyptian money is like, but what I did when I was starting out was to spend some time at home deciding how I wanted to fold my money and where I would put put it. Sometimes I regret the choices I made back then (I fold my $20 bills into little triangles and that's fine until I have $200 in $20 bills haha).

I put my $1 bills on one side of my wallet in the money pocket. In the middle go the $5, $10, and $20. On the very rare times when I had a bill bigger than that, it would go in the right side of the bills pocket.

When I was travelling to the UK I mostly didn't have to do this because UK bills are accessible and the smaller bills are coins. But I did find that one drawback was that in order to tell the bills apart I needed to be able to feel all of them at once, which was a bit difficult whenever I was in a hurry.

The only time I bought a braille money labeller, half of the labels were backwards and wrong. It was very cheaply made and I haven't bothered since.

To read my bills, I have a money reader from the US Department of the Treasury, something that is probably not available where you are. But as others have said, you can use Seeing AI, Be my Eyes, or text detection on your phone to find out what bill you're holding. Or, if someone you trust is around, you can ask them.

Good luck!

I do folding and while organizing. As far as money ID, I have to ask people. I have never been able to successfully get an app to scan a bill for me or use the money reader. Keep saying error when I put a bill in.