Spending "Funny" money. How many of you do it?

A couple of weeks back I pulled into a Taco Bell and went to the drive-thru. The bill was $5.25 so I gave the guy a 5 and a Kennedy half. He looked at it and said, “Is this a half dollar?” I said it was and he tried to give it back to me. He said, “Oh man, take your 50-cent piece back.” I asked him why and said, “Man, I don’t want to take your 50-cent piece.” I told him it was fine and I had a lot of them. He then said, “So you want 25 cents in change?” I said I did and he gave me 2 dimes and a nickel. It was funny like he didn’t want to take advantage of me or I was so desperate that I was spending my “50-cent piece” cause I really needed those tacos. The reactions to half dollars can be great. People never seem to react to dollar coins though.

 

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Turnabout is fair play department:

There's a barbecue place near here that always gives change in half dollars if the amount dictates it.

Of course, they're also literally in the shadow of the Federal Reserve bank. Whether this has anything to do with it is a good question...

 

I once tried to spend a good Liberty nickel at McDonalds & the drive-thru cashier said she couldn't accept Cananian money. I explained that it was a US nickel (just an old one). She still wouldn't take it for payment. I paid the bill with a Jefferson nickel & told her to keep the Liberty nickel as a tip. Maybe she looked it up on the Internet & learned something.

 

Stopped by 2 banks to replenish my "funny" money supply. NONE of them had any halves (not even loose ones) Only one carried a roll of dollar coins, and I was only able to get 3 loose dollar coins (Andrew Johnson, Abe Lincoln, and Andy Jackson. Nothing to see here) The trip was not a total waste though. I was able to get some $2 bills in consecutive order. I didn't walk away with much this time because the teller who usually takes care of this kind of stuff for me was gone and he's the only one who usually caries what I need. Gonna try and hit up some more banks tomorrow.

 

That doesn't surprise me. The bank I worked for never carried half dollars. When they would come in in a deposit...someone would see them and shortly thereafter buy them (of course, my teller friends would save any silver half or anything interesting until I had a chance to look at it first). One day, I asked my teller coordinator (my direct supervisor) if she could order a $500 bag of half dollars that I could buy, take home, and sort through. She said it was no problem and from then on I would get a bag every couple weeks and just take the left over coins back to work and deposit it during my break. She even gave me a canvas bag to use to carry all the left overs back. It was a great job.

 

Having a garage sale tomorrow, and guess what I'll be giving out as change?

$2 Bills, sacs and Presidential Dollars

 

You have garage-sales on Thursdays?

 

This time of year I do. This week in may every year our town does this "spring cleanup" thing where people toss out stuff they don't want on to the side of the road and if anybody sees anything they want they stop and pick it up. (Some people even tow around trailers to put stuff they find in). And then on saturday the trash company picks everything up and either recycles it or takes it to the landfill. So people have yard sales on thurdays and fridays of that week and anything that doesn't sell goes out the the curb. Its also relay for life weekend so that draws in even more people. Its a great week to have a garage sale.

 

At a convenience store one day, my purchase came to about a buck and a half.
The clerk handed back my $2 bill and asked " do you realize that this five is counterfeit?".

 

Ohhh, that explains it.....
I thought you just randomly had garage sales in the middle of the week!!!

 

Thats priceless :too-funny:. Hope I get some decent reactions.

 

i spent some $2 bills at a convience store once, and the cashier used a counterfeit pen on them "just to be sure" they weren't fake. then she put some singles in the register so she could take them home.

 

Worthless? The cents' metallic value is $0.258 each; the nickels' metallic value is $0.0628 each.

If silver coins can be melted down for their metal content, there's no reason that cents and nickels can't, too.

 

Unfortunately I wasn't able to obtain any halves otherwise I'd be having even more fun. I'll keep you guys posted if I get any interesting stories

 

how about a roll of Madison dollars!!

 

But then you'd have to go through the trouble of tracking down someone who actually wants to melt them or melting them yourself. Besides, isn't it illegal to melt down cents now?

 

Good Enough.

 

Similar thing happed to me, only I was at a hardware store paying for a primer bulb and some gas line not tacos.

 

FUNNY MONEY!!!

I work at a place that NEVER EVER gives back change with $1 bills. If you get change it's in $20,10,5 or 2 dollar bills, or $1 coins, 50 cent pieces, quarters, dimes, nickels etc.

So for over five years I've personally been dealing with alot of funny money and whenever I go on vacation I always bring the funny with me. I LOOOOVE seeing the reactions and hearing the stories "oh I haven't seen any of these since...".

It's a store policy so some people..well alot of people, choose NOT to come to our branch strickly for that reason. "Oh it doesn't work in my vending machines or you can't pay for anything with those"...some people get really mad and want their money back.

 

Whats even better is denying their request