If you need colones, get them now. It's spend like a drunken sailor fortnight in CR again. Beginning tomorrow at midnight, the CR treasury will begin doling out c225 billion colones to government workers and pensioners. Then by December 20th similar bonuses must be paid to salaried workers (1/12th of total yearly wages). An estimated 1,536,000 ticos will receive an average of c548,000 colones. Exactly how this will mesh with the December 1st MANDATORY/voluntary (wink wink, nod nod) vaccine certificate mandate is anyone's guess, but I would advise against popping into Mas x Menos for that bottle of cacique.
Expect any under capitalized businesses to be quite embarassed if they cannot pay by 20-December.