$2 Bill Pad

Step 5: Release

Give the rubber cement an hour or two to start to really settle and then release it from the clamp.

Carefully peel away the protective cardboard.

Also, you will probably need to clean rubber cement off of the top bill on the stack. Rather than spending a lot of time fussing with this and risk damaging the spine, I peeled this bill off and then quickly rubbed it clean.

If all went well, you should now have a pad of $2 bills which can be exchanged for goods and services. Go forth into the world and spend - darn you - spend!

Comments

[technosasquatch]

even cooler if you can get them in sequential order

[skylane]

This IS a great idea! if I have time I'm going to make some. I already have $200 worth in sequential order.
I love spending $2 bills and $1 coins. (Susan B or Sacagawea dollars)
I totally baffled a kid at Burger King one day. Gave him a $2 bill & a $1 coin. He called to manager to find out what to do with the $2 bill. After he figured it out, he called the manager back to find out what to do with the $1 coin! I wasn't sure if it was sad of funny.. LOL

[mrmerino]

That's... disappointing.

[orangesrhyme]

I worked at a Burger King last year and had to ask what to do with odd currencies. (for me) it wasn't so much doubting their legality as it was "what slot of the register do you want these in". For humanity's sake I hope his was a similar dilemma...

[sconner1]

It is likely if you order a full banded stack of brand new bills that they will be sequential.
I might keep the bottom cardboard glued to the spine for extra notepad look-and-feel and to keep the bills crisp longer.

[JamesRPatrick]

Sad. Definitely sad.

[Rlangg]

Your Burger King kid reminds me of the valet parkers who can't drive my manual tranmission car. It's so funny.

[qlue]

Automatics are so scarce here I South Africa that many South Africans don't even know they exist! :p.
(we also don't have 'valet' parking. Unless you count the guy with the AK in your face!)

[enginepaul]

Now, that's FUNNY. Unfortunately true, but funny.

[king kolton9]

ok.... ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! A FREAKIN AK-47!!!
Ok um... sorry but has tht ever happened to you?.... (thinks ill never go to africa EVER!!!)

[qlue]

lol Hijackings are common in most areas! High levels of unemployment combined with not enough policing is a bad combination! :(
Fortunately, I don't have any personal experience with this but I have many relatives who have been victims! :(

[dreamweaverabc]

Well, that reminds me of the guy who saw me pull right up to his store as he washed the glass door, watched me get out of the driver's side, got my service dog out of the back seat, and when I entered his store he asked, "You're not COMPLETELY blind, are you?"

Yeah, you idiot. My dog drives from the back seat and I just sit in front so we don't draw a lot of attention to ourselves. (For those who don't know, a service dog is for multiple kinds of disabilities, but is NOT a guide dog. I'm thinking of making a T-shirt that says, "I don't look disabled? Well, you don't look stupid."

[ReverieAerie]

Dreamweaverabc, if you make that shirt, I would totally buy it. ...Even though I'm not disabled. I love your dog, by the way :)

[Cyberscann54]

it may be funny to you now but I bet it will stop being funny when you have to replace the transmission

[Rlangg]

I'm teaching my daughter how to use a payphone, just in case.

[badideasrus]

while your at it, teach her how to drive a manual. its more likely she'll run into one of those than a payphone (though i actually have used one recently)

[brainmist]

I loved the PO stamp machines for Susan B/ Sacagawea dollars. Put in a $20, buy one stamp, walk around like a pirate with your loot, plus the satisfaction of the slot-machine win sound without the horrible slot-machine induced debt.

[riff raff]

It's funny...and sad. They don't even know how to count back change any more. If they don't have a computer screen telling them the amount to hand back in a wad, they're lost. :-/

[static]

I'm fairly certain it's not fair to blame anyone about something they may never have been taught or may never have experienced a cashier counting back change. In today's hurry up world many will be irritated with a return to change being counted back. These days I notice the shelf above the cash drawer is almost always can't be used for what I was taught to do. I was taught to place the money on on that shelf, so if a customer tries to claim they gave you a larger bill than they did, you can show them what they gave you.

[knightowl]

You have never worked retail. It is such a boring, soul crushing experience, that if you don't shut your brain off and zone out you will probably shoot up the place.

IT is so much better, my nice safe cave....

[susanrm]

I've worked retail, and yes, it was boring. So to keep myself interested and entertained, I taught myself to count back change quickly without the aid of the register, and to keypunch using the keypad. Instead of becoming a brain-dead zombie, I became quicker and more efficient, developing skills I still use today, including when I teach students to count back change.

[paperclip32]

Good for you,but I doubt the 16-year-olds that work at my local McDonalds are very keen on challenging themselves.

[susanrm]

Yeah, that's how old I was when I started doing what I said above (at McDonald's, no less). :-) Best not to prejudge; you never know!

[king kolton9]

There was this... A LAZY SLOB at the bowling ally today (an employe mind you)
we had our service light on for 1 and 1/2 hours and he , and the other employes ignored it. Someone in my group went up 5 min after i put the light on because of the stuck ball nobody came, because nobodys' haves brains (It's a long story don't ask) In the bowling ally that would take time to get our ball.

[actimm]

I enjoyed the comments on obscure American Coins, but if you really want to mess with the younger generation, find a bunch of Kennedy 1/2 Dollars. They are really big, about 1 1/2 inches in Diameter. They stopped making them in the 70's around the same time the Susan B Anthony dollar coins came out. I still find them from time to time.

[DanYHKim]

My favorite story about using the Kennedy half is from "Glory Road" by Robert Heinlein. In this book, the hero impresses peasant a kid (on another planet) by gifting him with a "medallion", which was a Kennedy Half, figuring that the coin is the biggest and most garish thing he probably would ever see in his life.

[sconner1]

I'm pretty sure Kennedy halfs are made right through the 80s but in smaller quantities for circulation. They were still part of proof sets.
I've never seen a Susie B in any year other than 1979.
Post office vending machines used to give them as change until the golden Sacajawea dollar coins took over.

[quantumkittty]

lol, they actually started redistributing them from 1997 to 2005, though, it still screws with those of the younger generations.

[sconner1]

Fun gag!
I love that this is made with the least known and least used U.S. note.
Our tax dollars at work. And they want to stop making pennies!

[djimdy]

What I really like about this is that the $2 bill appears to be the only one that doesn't have a building exterior on the reverse and instead has an incredibly beautiful rendition of the signers of the Declaration.

[ilpug]

Well, their metal value is now worth more than one cent, so it might be a good idea.

[waldosan]

actually the united states dollar isn't backed by gold anymore, technically neither is the euro, so i sincerely doubt that the penny is too. for real proof you can google around but my personal favorite faux proof is that you can't go to a bank anymore and ask for a dollar's worth of gold.

[sconner1]

I think he meant that a penny has more than 1 cent worth of copper and zinc, not to mention the labor and overhead of minting them.
You're right though the dollar hasn't been based on gold since the '30's I think.

[ilpug]

No, I am fully aware of the lack of gold or even silver backing. Our money is actually backed by nothing, and in reality has negative value. Money is really worthless.

I was referring to the fact that the actual copper and zinc it takes to make a penny is worth more than one cent.

[waldosan]

i thought they fixed that problem when they made the penny copper coated back in the 70's. I find it kinda funny now that we are facing the same problem again, was the problem fixed or was it just patched?

still i see it as the entire world saying that they'll promise to give you your "gold" as long as you promise not to ask for it...

[sconner1]

It was 1982 they made the penny a bi-metal. I don't know if it made the penny worth more than the scrap metal it was made from. it would at least make the scrap price margin less.
The most obvious reason to do this is to prevent people from for example buying $100 of pennies in order to turn around and sell them for $120 or whatever the copper scrap market value the weight of 10,000 pennies happened to be.

[TheAmateurArtisan]

Instead of having to rub the top bill, why not place a piece of scrap paper the same size on it and then just peel that off?

[dalesql]

Many years ago, I made the drive from Boston to Norfolk, VA monthly. All the tollbooths then were 1, 2, or 3 dollars. So I made up a pad of 2s just like this, and kept the ashtray full of susanB dollars. Paid all my tolls with them both ways. Normally I would just get a double-take from the attendants. One time, on the Tappen Zee Bridge, the toll taker actually called over the state trooper to arrest me for trying to spend counterfeit money.

Trooper looked at the money, gave me a dirty look, and told me to drive on. The toll attendant started making the motorboat sound. ( but, but, but, but?!) as I was driving away. I suspect I enlivened the breakroom that day just a bit.

[criggie]

Who is Susan B and why did you take her money?

Aka what's special about those ones? Not everyone's an american.

[dalesql]

Susan B. Anthony dollar coins. aka Carter Quarters. They are one dollar coins introduced in the 70s. They looked like a US quarter dollar coin but slightly larger in diameter. They were introduced with much fanfare and didn't catch on with the US population. Thus they were as unfamiliar to most americans as the two dollar bill was. The gold colored dollar coins recently introduced are the same size and weight, and are more recognizable. But they won't catch on until the treasury stops printing one dollar bills.