Funny Money

My wife, I gave her the notes to spend, spent 37 $2 bills at a Lowes the other day. The cashiers were calling their friends to come see them. I am sure they bought them out of the register later.

I just spent the last of a $200 batch of 2's. I get the same response from the young kids that have never seen one. I did have a cashier a couple of days ago think they were cool so I swapped out $20 worth. She gave one to her 5 year old daughter that was there with her. Her daughter thought it was the neatest thing. They can be fun to spend.

I wish I had brick of two dollars bills brand new. My banks keep giving old wore out stuff. Some bank don't order them from feds. They have to wait until people turn them in to there banks.

I hate it big time since I want those two dollars bills, Kennedy halves, dollar coins to spend. Bank of America is my bank. They always tell me that cant order those things from federal reserve. I wish an person could explain what the bank problems are. I just don't get it . Its like that at my fathers bank wells Fargo also is same way. They even give you an limit on 5 dollars coins if they have them.

I don't get it big time. I see why intire USA don't want spend them and hoard them since the banks will not ordor it or have them. They think they are rare and pull them from circulation and don't spend them. I had to hit 5 banks in one day just to get less than 50 bucks of that stuff.

I even talked to bank president of an credit union since he bought my car on ebay. He told me they can odor all that stuff no problem from feds . I even checked fed reserve website cash services that banks ordor their money from. Its all listed on there website and they ordor it no problem. I don't get it get and why are these banks refusing to order that stuff. Its like an boycott against those things. It got me big time . I just don't get it.

I should get a roll of Presidential dollars and spend it. Also spending $2 bills sounds fun too. Too bad I only have one of each of those.

My bank is awesome! It's a small town one where everyone knows my name. I just ordered 500$ in Halves for the first time and found 23 silver coins and want to go get their 2nd box so they said to just bring em in for a trade. I even have a guy there that holds star notes for me!

I stopped spending Halves, babby size dollar coins, $2 bills. Way to many not so funny things happen. At several restaurants now leaving a tip with any of those has gotten be loud statememts like "Hey this is your kids play money". Cashiers at stores have to check if real and then everyone behind me in line looks like they want to hang me. Conductors on commuter trains have said notice my coin changer? See any slots for that stuff? Why don't you take that stuff and shove it? Most vending machines I've seen don't take halves or the baby sized dollars. I tried a $2 bill in a coin changer and it keep it and nothing came out. $2 experience. A bank I go to keeps asking if I want any of those baby sized dollars because not to many people want them and the ones that do soon return them. At first I thought spending stuff like that woould be fun but it looses the humor when you get embarrased enough.

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Maybe I should try an new bank to get them all day long. Your correct I had serval problems spending the 2007 dollar coins. I try-ed spend in an small town store . They thought something was wrong and called there main office to find out what the 2007 dollar was. Sears refused to take them since they did know
what they dealing with or ever saw before. They told me to take to bank and get paper. They sometimes cause problems when I spend them.

I hope I can find bank to buy them from no problem. Main reason I want dollar coins, halves, two dollar bills. My goal is build an in-tire roll set of new dollar coins and to buy 50 books from dancso in next few years for resale. The half's, I want those to search for decent coins and silver coins to build sets out them. The two dollar bills I want those to search for bu or unused for my collection. I am also looking for two s where numbers are same after each one. I am learning people on ebay pay over face on brand new bills or bricks of them. The rest of them culls or junk coins, bills I will spend to dump them since they have no collection value.

I do agree with you. Retailers , stores for whatever reason don't want them or cant give them out change since the public hates them for whatever reason. That's why the Susan dollar, 2000 , 2001 sacs dollars failed in the public. I did read there are no vending machines used for halfs. The onley way it will work if the USA government quit making 1 dollar bills. Then the USA government will force the public to use them each day. Until then its going be like this.

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I don't get it get and why are these banks refusing to order that stuff. Its like an boycott against those things.

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Most of the change/cash given out by banks are to businesses for making change. Like they say they don't (or at least believe they don't) have spots to handle them easily so they don't ask for them and so the banks don't order them. A bank does not want to order and have sitting around cash to isn't in demand. Any cash on hand in excess of the legal minimum cash reserve is an unproductive asset that isn't earning the bank money. You want $50 in dollar coins. They have to order a $1000 box that no one wants. What do they do with the other $950? Plus coins are heavy and it costs the bank money to have them shipped to them. So that $1000 box of dollars may cost them $1010. Even if you took the whole box, the bank loses $10.

Most banks know how much in coin comes into the bank each week, and how much goes out and how much of each type. They try and keep as close a balance as possible between the inflow and outflow and only order or ship back just that amount of coins to keep the balance. This is why most banks hate roll searchers. Someone comes in and unexpectantly asks for a buch of rolls means that they may not have enough on hand to satisfy their major business customers when they come in for change. Who are they going to tick off. The collector who wants to search rols and provides little or no income to the bank for the trouble? Or the Business customer who may have hundreds of thousands of dollars in accounts in the bank? Tick him off and he may change banks which means a big revenue loss.

Want to have some real fun? It will cost you some but the reaction can be great. Get an uncut sheet of dollars and cut it vertically and horizontally so you have 8 groups of four notes connected top to bottom. Then when you make a purchase that has an odd dollar, pull out one of the groups and proceed to cut off what you need for the bill. (If you fold them top to bottom each group will take up the same space a four regular notes in your wallet.)

One warning though, doing this you just MIGHT get the police called on you for counterfeiting.

A cheaper way to do something similar.

If you can get a pack of new notes at the bank, it is possible to bet a glue that you can paint onto one edge of the pack to bind them together like a notepad. Then when you buy something you pull out your "pad" and peel off notes as needed.