Alpo Posted December 21, 2024 Posted December 21, 2024 It is your 21st birthday and you get this as a present. Until you unwrap it you think it's a poster. How long do you think you could go before you broke the glass? By my count there looks to be $285 in there. That's assuming those are four quarters. 3 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 21, 2024 Posted December 21, 2024 Take a photo, get it printed to size, open the frame carefully, remove the bills and coins, replace with photo and hang. Money in the bank. 5 3 Quote
Pat Riot Posted December 21, 2024 Posted December 21, 2024 29 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said: Take a photo, get it printed to size, open the frame carefully, remove the bills and coins, replace with photo and hang. Money in the bank. I’m with you on this one. 1 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 21, 2024 Posted December 21, 2024 Open it. Put the deuce notes in an envelope in a drawer. Put the rest of the bills in an old wallet in a drawer. Coins go into the change jar. 2 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 Change is 2 quarters, Dime and a Nickel. Quote
Cypress Sun Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 PARTAAY with $20? Must be an gift from the '70's. When I was 21, $284.65 was well above a weeks pay back then. It would have been gone from the frame in no time. Would have kept the frame and poster though. 1 Quote
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 Remember Maverick? He carried a $1000 bill pinned inside his vest for emergencies. Quote
Blackwater 53393 Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 I wonder!! If you had a real $1,000.00 bill today, would it still be legal tender? And what would it be worth in collector value?? As far as the poster goes, I would probably have bought something for my car or spent it on some liquor when I was 21!! Lifetime hotrodder and former party animal!! 2 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 18 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said: I wonder!! If you had a real $1,000.00 bill today, would it still be legal tender? And what would it be worth in collector value?? As far as the poster goes, I would probably have bought something for my car or spent it on some liquor when I was 21!! Lifetime hotrodder and former party animal!! More than you want to know. https://www.chroniclecollectibles.com/are-1000-dollar-bills-still-legal-tender/ 1 2 Quote
Alpo Posted December 22, 2024 Author Posted December 22, 2024 I remember in the Reader's Digest many many years ago, the guy had sold his car and had $1,200 in cash. So he decided he would get $1,000 bill. Just have one. Would probably be the only time he ever had one, but just to have one. It was December, and the banks did not have any. One teller said they had all been bought by Texas oilmen for Christmas presents. Also, many many years ago, I used to work at a bank. When they took me into the vault the first time, the vice president that was showing me around show me this business size envelope. It contained a half a million dollars in $5,000 bills. He said that was used for bank to bank transfers. 2 1 Quote
Stump Water Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 3 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: I wonder!! If you had a real $1,000.00 bill today, would it still be legal tender? And what would it be worth in collector value?? Yes, it would. But you can't "demand" any more than face value if used as legal tender. Collector value, on the other hand, is entirely different. Cursory look on eBay... $1500 - $37,000. 1 1 Quote
Texas Maverick Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 5 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Remember Maverick? He carried a $1000 bill pinned inside his vest for emergencies. Yeah but now I just carry 4 $100 and 2 $50 in my hidden billfold compartment. LOL TM 1 2 Quote
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 The largest bill in current circulation is 500€. EU is no longer issuing them because they made it too easy to smuggle money. Some people would pay 550 or 600 for one. 1 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 Take one into a Burger King and try to spend it. They'll call the cops. I had them call the police because I had a two dollar bill and they thought it was a counterfeit. The officer said it was a real bill and they still wouldn't take it, but I got my meal for free. 1 1 Quote
Alpo Posted December 23, 2024 Author Posted December 23, 2024 Y'all ever see a movie called The Million Pound Note? You remember in the Eddie Murphy movie Trading Places, there were these two rich brothers that made a bet with each other. Well that's what happened in this movie. These two rich bankers made a bet as to whether Gary Cooper could carry around a million pound (they are in England) banknote without cashing it for a month. If he does they'll give him a well-paying job. So he offers to pay for his lunch with this million pound note, and of course they can't cash it so they just open a charge account. Obviously he's an eccentric millionaire. So everywhere he goes - tailor shop, restaurant, hotel - they give him whatever he needs. "No need to pay now. We know you're good for it." Good movie. 1 Quote
Stump Water Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Take one into a Burger King and try to spend it. They'll call the cops. I had them call the police because I had a two dollar bill and they thought it was a counterfeit. The officer said it was a real bill and they still wouldn't take it, but I got my meal for free. 2 Quote
Alpo Posted December 23, 2024 Author Posted December 23, 2024 For Lobita's 6th birthday I sent her a birthday card with ten $2 bills in it. She showed them to her father and asked if they were real, and her father said, "No baby, Grandpa sent you play money". Then my daughter saw them and said that Grandpa had sent her real money. And then she told her husband that I collected $2 bills. He had never heard of them before. 2 Quote
Stump Water Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 Many years ago when I worked at a gas station kids would pay with $2 bills, $1, $5 & $10 silver certificates, silver quarters, half-dollars & dollars. You know darn good and well they had raided their parents "collection". Every time it happened I "bought" them...face value of course. One kid showed up with some Hawaii overprint notes from WW2 a couple of times. Bought those too. But when I got to college and a professor found out I had them he offered me more than a starving college kid could resist. Wish I hadn't... of course. 2 Quote
Jack Spade Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 When I went to college in 1983 my grandpa gave me a $20 bill to tuck back in my wallet in case of an emergency. There have been several times in my life when I was tempted to pull that $20 out but I always figured out another solution. That $20 is still in my wallet. 5 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 (edited) I still carry a $2 for luck. There might still be one, signed and tacked to the ceiling in the Swizzle Inn , Bermuda. Back in the early mid '60's at the Var Bar at UW they refused to take silver dollars for a pitcher of beer. That was before the Eisenhower dollar, so the guy in our group must have been spending the real thing. Hope he got to keep them! Can't remember which team member it was - Madison, WI was 18 for beer, rest of the state 21. Edited December 24, 2024 by Rip Snorter More 1 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 On 12/22/2024 at 5:41 AM, Rip Snorter said: More than you want to know. https://www.chroniclecollectibles.com/are-1000-dollar-bills-still-legal-tender/ Interesting article. But to me it read as something written as a bet.... how many times can you use "rare," or its various forms, in an article? Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 (edited) I've been thinking about this. They arrested the girl, took her out of the school from a cafeteria in front of other students to the police station, where she was treated like a criminal and arrested. I has beeen on TV with commentary. Handcuffs for a $2.00 offense? That is criminal. I'm pretty much able to stand up for myself, but if someone mistreats my family they will learn what a vicious and vengeful SOB I can be. I'd find an attorney and demand a public apology from every soul involved including school officials (including the school board), cafeteria staff, city, and police officials and involved employees. I'd yank the chain of any news outfit that didn't get the facts right or cast suspicions on the victim (and victim she is). All of this should be done on prime time on every electronic media and the front page of any media form that didn't get it right. To be fair, the apologies should be in person by the "perps" in the school auditorium, gym, or cafeteria. And they damn well had better sound sincere. If I could, I'd see to it that she would never again pay for any meal on school district property or at off campus school events like proms, student trips, parades and off campus sporting events, etc. The police would pay for meals of some sort, too. Now, before you start siding with and defending the parties involved, let me point out that anyone could have simply picked up a phone and called the police station, a local bank, or a coin and gold shop to check it out rather than blindly pushing themselves and their so-called authority around at the cost of the young lady's embarrassment, confusion, fear, and reputation and ruining her faith in "the system". Too much of this crap goes on without anyone being called to task over it. It needs to stop now! Too much? Tell me how! Edited December 24, 2024 by Forty Rod SASS 3935 2 Quote
watab kid Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 when i was one and twenty - no use to talk to me" i would have spent it , probably not broken glass to do it but , i would perhaps have made notations of what was there and saved the gift , ive always been sentimental but not always been financially safe , Quote
Black Angus McPherson Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 16 hours ago, Jack Spade said: When I went to college in 1983 my grandpa gave me a $20 bill to tuck back in my wallet in case of an emergency. There have been several times in my life when I was tempted to pull that $20 out but I always figured out another solution. That $20 is still in my wallet. When my mom went to college, she carried a $2 bill for emergencies. Of course, that was ~1940. She had the same bill in her wallet until the day she died. I still carry some $2 bills in my wallet. Mostly to include in tips and such. I sometimes get odd looks and often get "Wow, a $2 bill." I've been known to throw in a gold dollar or two, also. Not so many comments about gold dollars. Once or twice I've had to point them out to people who had mistaken a $2 for a $20 when giving me change. I've never had one refused. Angus Quote
Cypress Sun Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 I'm reminded of wiring a store in a strip mall in north Tampa. It was located at the entrance to the nudist resort which had a Publix grocery store as the anchor of the plaza. I would go over to the Publix to get lunch from the deli. Sometimes it was the fried chicken, sometimes a hot meal in the deli case and sometimes a sub. I paid cash at the checkout and noticed that I was getting back $2.00 bills as change. Instead of giving you a five and three ones, they'd give you four $2 bills as change or whatever the change was, it had twos mixed in. After a few days of receiving $2 bills as change, I asked why the two dollar bills. Evidently, the residents of the nudist resort wanted the surrounding community to recognize the purchasing power of the resort so they were paying for things throughout the area with $2 bills. I still have some of the $2 bills somewhere. 3 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 Parker Pen used to do that in Janesville Wisconsin. Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said: Parker Pen used to do that in Janesville Wisconsin. What? Have nudists with $2 bills. Quote
Cypress Sun Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said: What? Have nudists with $2 bills. Better than nudists with $3 bills! 1 1 Quote
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