Let's see, library card, GHIN golf handicap card, ATM card long since expired and for a bank I no longer use, couple of blank checks, a $5, two $10's and a gum wrapper on which is written a faded phone number that must have been important. No $2's though.
I do however want a $500 bill in there. One day I swear I'm gonna pull the trigger on eBay. A nice one, prefolded , might not hurt too bad. Think I can find a graded authenticated one with fold lines?
I'd have to cut it out to carry in the wallet, of course.
When I worked at Terrible Instruments I used to cash my check and get several hundred dollars in $2 bills to spend throughout Houston. People remembered me because I did it for a few years - I'm guessing their remembrances were not fond ones.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
I have a $1 silver certificate, a 1976 $2, a 1963 $5 United States Note (red seal) and several star notes. Great show and tell items.
Jim Hodgson
Collector of US Small Size currency, Atlanta FRNs, and Georgia nationals since 1977. Researcher of small size US type - seeking serial number data for all FRN star notes, Series 1928 to 1934-D. Life member SPMC.
I actually had a few in there a week or two ago, but they got spent. Most of the contents of my wallet is receipts, credit cards, ID cards, membership cards, and assorted frequent eater cards (Jimmy John's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Which Wich). I don't quite have the Costanza wallet going, as I purge it before it gets that bad.
<< <i>No, however, I never did see a picture of your neighbors' house. Do you have one ? >>
I want to see that also! In my head I know what it looks like but I have an active imagination. MJ
Walker Proof Digital Album Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I do. It's supposed to be a conversation starter, but it's been in there for a few years and has started 0 conversations. Eventually, I will probably want something badly and not have anything else to buy it with and spend it.
I also have an Ike dollar in my pocket at all time, but I'm hoping the other change will clean the scuzz off it that got on it during a basement flood. No change yet, went in in 2009 or so.
My Dad explained it to me that it was your money of last resort. Back in his day, no ATMs, no cell phones, no charge cards..... If you wuz broke you wuz broke. In such case, again, going back a half century...2 bucks could do a lot for you
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Not in my wallet, but I do have a couple. Don't ask me why, they will never be worth anything. My grandpa use to give them to us for Christmas every year. I think he thought they would be valuable some day.
Edited for spelling.
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I hate thick wallets. I have some $2 bills for fun. But my wallet only holds my driver's license, a couple of credit cards, and my concealed weapons permit. Lance.
I've mentioned it before, but we have an older lady who makes homemade breakfast tacos ( if you've never had hand made tortillas andtomatillo/serrano salsa you are missing out) and brings them to our office on Mondays and Thursdays. They cost $2 a piece and rather then missing out on a taco day, I keep $2's at work in what I call my taco box. It started out just for me but has since evolved into a office taco box where if you need taco money you can borrow from the box. I don't keep track of it and it always gets repaid. It also has about $20 in half dollars, and has had dollar prezies when I was able to get them at face, shipped from the mint. It's an exercise in A.) goodwill, B.) office camaraderie and C.) self policing.
Yes. I spend them and/or give them as tips all the time.
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Yes, I usually try to get a few each time I go to the bank. I've also noticed that a few vending machines now take them.
Salute the automobile: The greatest anti-pollution device in human history! (Just think of city streets clogged with a hundred thousand horses each generating 15 lbs of manure every day...)
Walker Proof Digital Album Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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But I don't have any now.
I do have a $5 with a binary serial number I got in change yesterday
W.C. Fields
I do however want a $500 bill in there. One day I swear I'm gonna pull the trigger on eBay. A nice one, prefolded , might not hurt too bad. Think I can find a graded authenticated one with fold lines?
I'd have to cut it out to carry in the wallet, of course.
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
AU, Series 1976, fairly low 4-digit S/N.
What's not to like?
In my youth in the NE, they were very common during racing season.
I have a $1 silver certificate, a 1976 $2, a 1963 $5 United States Note (red seal) and several star notes. Great show and tell items.
Collector of US Small Size currency, Atlanta FRNs, and Georgia nationals since 1977. Researcher of small size US type - seeking serial number data for all FRN star notes, Series 1928 to 1934-D. Life member SPMC.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
<< <i>No, however, I never did see a picture of your neighbors' house. Do you have one ? >>
I want to see that also! In my head I know what it looks like but I have an active imagination. MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
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I also have an Ike dollar in my pocket at all time, but I'm hoping the other change will clean the scuzz off it that got on it during a basement flood. No change yet, went in in 2009 or so.
Few months ago I received 6 dated 1928.
They had creases and were worn, but I was thrilled and kept them.
The newer ones I spend at fund raisers at school and the kids get a kick out of them.
I also use them as tips.
You'd be surprised at how many people thank me.
I gave my mailman 5 of them for a Christmas tip last year and he still talks about it.
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
<< <i>I do not own a wallet.
In that case, do you have one in your purse?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
<< <i>Yep. Just received one yesterday in fact. Paid for $8 parking at the Yarmouth Clam Festivalwith a sawbuck, received a deuce in change.
AU, Series 1976, fairly low 4-digit S/N.
What's not to like?
That is pretty fuuny - I spent one there today!
Jim
Lafayette Grading Set
Edited for spelling.
Lance.
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<< <i>Wallet, no. Taco box at work...yes. >>
TACO BOX?!
* imagines a magical box of never ending tacos *
What, pray tell, is a "Taco box"?
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<< <i>Wallet, no. Taco box at work...yes. >>
TACO BOX?!
* imagines a magical box of never ending tacos *
What, pray tell, is a "Taco box"? >>
I've mentioned it before, but we have an older lady who makes homemade breakfast tacos ( if you've never had hand made tortillas andtomatillo/serrano salsa you are missing out) and brings them to our office on Mondays and Thursdays. They cost $2 a piece and rather then missing out on a taco day, I keep $2's at work in what I call my taco box. It started out just for me but has since evolved into a office taco box where if you need taco money you can borrow from the box. I don't keep track of it and it always gets repaid. It also has about $20 in half dollars, and has had dollar prezies when I was able to get them at face, shipped from the mint. It's an exercise in A.) goodwill, B.) office camaraderie and C.) self policing.
(Just think of city streets clogged with a hundred thousand horses each generating 15 lbs of manure every day...)
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
<< <i>I give them to people I want to annoy. MJ >>
I spent a couple at Coachella a few years back and the guy thanked me and said they were lucky.
I didn't tell him how to get very lucky very fast.