Can money be contained within a local area of circulation and stripped of its function to store value? Concepts for regional currencies try to reform money by complementing national currencies with local means of payment intended to possess these two features. Currency users are asked to forego personal benefits of using national currencies in order to support their regional community. But using a local currency is neither the only nor necessarily the best way for making such individual sacrifices. To a large extent, the stress put on reforming money in regional currency theories results from misunderstanding the role of money in macroeconomics.