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What do people do with them? Store them in mint condition in hope of creating collectors items in the future?

by Double_a_92 9y ago

danielvf 9y ago
Give them to friends and kids, see them smile.
- slig 9y ago
  Also good for tipping.
  - softawre 9y ago
    Back when $2 used to be a good tip, but now? Do you fork over 5 of them?
    - 0xJRS 9y ago
      Yes, you would use more than one $2-bill to tip them $10.
briffle 9y ago
My dad takes clients out to lunch a few times a week. He always tips the server with $2 bills. Every server on his side of town remembers him, and his favorite drinks, meals, etc. (and really impresses the clients!)
- scrumbledober 9y ago
  When I used to work as a valet it was a big deal every time we got a $2 bill in tip. When we were splitting the tip we would always ask if any of the new guys had never gotten one before and make sure they got one.
- toomanybeersies 9y ago
  There was a factory in a town somewhere that paid all its workers' bonuses in $2 bills so that the town could see the effect that the factory had on the local economy.
kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
I love Woz's trick of having uncut sheets perforated and tearing them off for tips.
- smoyer 9y ago
  My recollection of the story is that he would laminate them into "tablets" with rubber cement and then tear off the top sheet(s) to make a payment. I think I have that story bookmarked somewhere. EDIT: I'm not sure where the "printing" part of this story comes into play but it looks like his tablets do indeed have multiple bills per sheet in addition to being laminated at the top. (https://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/woz-prints-and-spend-his-own-2-bills/ https://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/woz-prints-and-spend-his-own...)
  - cwkoss 9y ago
    You can buy uncut sheets of bills directly from the US mint. I got a sheet of 12x $1 bills when I visited DC as a child. See here: https://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/1currencysheets.aspx https://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/1currencysheets.aspx
    - smoyer 9y ago
      Right ... but I suspect his local printer was involved in turning them into a tablet of a given size rather than actually printing the bills.
      - cwkoss 9y ago
        Yep, he got a print shop to apply rubber cement and perforate the sheets.
  - saganus 9y ago
    Does anyone know how is that not illegal? Even if they meet the required standards I thought only the government was allowed to print bills. Does anyone have any links or references to what Woz is saying?
dsnuh 9y ago
My son is in kindergarten and one of his Vietnamese classmates gave everyone a red envelope with a $2 in it for Lunar New Year. I have also received a similar gift from a Chinese co-worker, so maybe that's where some are going?

What do people do with them? Store them in mint condition in hope of creating collectors items in the future?

danielvf 9y ago

Give them to friends and kids, see them smile.

slig 9y ago
Also good for tipping.
- softawre 9y ago
  Back when $2 used to be a good tip, but now? Do you fork over 5 of them?
  - 0xJRS 9y ago
    Yes, you would use more than one $2-bill to tip them $10.

briffle 9y ago

My dad takes clients out to lunch a few times a week. He always tips the server with $2 bills. Every server on his side of town remembers him, and his favorite drinks, meals, etc. (and really impresses the clients!)

scrumbledober 9y ago
When I used to work as a valet it was a big deal every time we got a $2 bill in tip. When we were splitting the tip we would always ask if any of the new guys had never gotten one before and make sure they got one.
toomanybeersies 9y ago
There was a factory in a town somewhere that paid all its workers' bonuses in $2 bills so that the town could see the effect that the factory had on the local economy.

kevin_thibedeau 9y ago

I love Woz's trick of having uncut sheets perforated and tearing them off for tips.

smoyer 9y ago
My recollection of the story is that he would laminate them into "tablets" with rubber cement and then tear off the top sheet(s) to make a payment. I think I have that story bookmarked somewhere. EDIT: I'm not sure where the "printing" part of this story comes into play but it looks like his tablets do indeed have multiple bills per sheet in addition to being laminated at the top. (https://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/woz-prints-and-spend-his-own-2-bills/ https://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/woz-prints-and-spend-his-own...)
- cwkoss 9y ago
  You can buy uncut sheets of bills directly from the US mint. I got a sheet of 12x $1 bills when I visited DC as a child. See here: https://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/1currencysheets.aspx https://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/1currencysheets.aspx
  - smoyer 9y ago
    Right ... but I suspect his local printer was involved in turning them into a tablet of a given size rather than actually printing the bills.
    - cwkoss 9y ago
      Yep, he got a print shop to apply rubber cement and perforate the sheets.
- saganus 9y ago
  Does anyone know how is that not illegal? Even if they meet the required standards I thought only the government was allowed to print bills. Does anyone have any links or references to what Woz is saying?

dsnuh 9y ago

My son is in kindergarten and one of his Vietnamese classmates gave everyone a red envelope with a $2 in it for Lunar New Year. I have also received a similar gift from a Chinese co-worker, so maybe that's where some are going?