I think I am going to start carrying around $40 in $2 Bills and $20 in Halves

At the pace we're going with the Fed, a bunch of these will be in all our wallets everyday just to pay for food and gas.

 

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There is an upside to using $2 notes for your day-to-day cash purchases. You may end up like that fellow who was arrested in Baltimore for supposedly passing counterfeit money at a McDonalds a few years ago. Neither the manager at the McDonalds, the officers who responded to the call nor any of the other officers at the station were aware that the $2 notes were legitimate until Secret Service agents from DC told them. The fellow who was arrested settled out of court with McDonalds and the Baltimore Police Department for a very substantial sum.

Chris

 

Well, this is definately true. I've been questioned MANY times and see young kids take my bills over to a manager for approval. IT'S AWESOME! LOLOLOLOL

 

I spent a $2 at a hardware store this morning, a $2.58 purchase so I handed the clerk the $2 and a $1. He put the $1 in the slot, but had to hash at the $2 with his detector pen, then looked at it against the light(no watermarks, don't bother) At least the pen thing convinced him it was real. That is a fairly unusual reaction though, most people are at least vaquely familiar with them and even like getting them.

 

the 5000 and 10,000 were a brother sidter pair

 

I bet they would have liked getting four quarters instead for each dollar even less. (22.68 grams per dollar instead of 8.1)

 

I was at the gas station last week. While the cashier opened her till I noticed that she had a couple $2 bills. I asked if I could buy them. She said she would love to but only if I want to get tracked. apparently they only distribute them when they are getting robbed and they are all marked.

 

hope you plan on wearing a belt with 40 halves in your pocket

 

Ha! I know! Those idiot teachers always riding around in Lambos, flashing their Rollies, and partying with P. Diddy.

 

They shred them?

 

LOL

Bought feed with them, used them for mortgage payments, tax payments, etc.

 

Well, I gave a store cashier $20 in halves yesterday as partial payment for some items I bought, and to him I was promoting the use of halves and $2 bills, and I just went to the bank that day and got $301 worth of halves, and those 602 coins were heavy! Anyway, I asked the cashier if he was going to hand the halves out in circulation as needed, and he said "Probably, since they're in my till" so I told him to let me know how well recieved they were, the next time I came in the store. The sad thing was, that the bank also had some $2 bills that I could not afford, but that cashier told me that, if I brought in any $2 bills, he would probably buy them, because he loves $2 bills.

I will keep you guys updated on the experiment.

 

Actually, to me, those 40 halves don't seem like they weigh all that much.

 

I would never use more halves than I had to. Maybe you have never worked in a store - but in many stores the cashiers are stuck with the change they get - which results in it staying in the register over several nights - and causing them to count it over and over again at open and close of the cash register. So if you give a cashier one half they can send it out readily, give them $20 in halves you might well just chaff them off. I know from my brief experience with retail that the company said we could refuse refuse coin payments, like rolls of quarters etc as a nuisance. At the end of the night we had to leave $100 in the register - about $90 in bills and $10 in change. $20 in halves are a problem since you cannot send change back to the cage.

I never had a problem with kids coming in and buying something and spending like $50 in $1 bills though - in retail you can never have too many $1 bills. In fact I thanked them for making my life easier since I wouldn't have to run out of $1s and then wait up to an hour to get more from the cash office.

 

Maybe you are being questioned for giving random children in the store money. Would you like a lolly pop little boy? . J/k

 

If you are so worried about running out of $1 bills, then $2 bills are an excelent solution, as they'd cut the need for your $1 bills in half. And as I said, the store had a sign that said "We need $1's AND $5's" the one day, then the next day I went in there, they had a sign that said "We need $5's and $10's" and in both of these cases, I think $2 bills and even halves would have helped out, so that they would not have to give out so many $1 bills, that they would run out of them, and people would get less annoyed with half the bills in $2's than double the bills in $1's.

As for me dumping $20 in halves off at a store, I think with the many small purchases made at the store, that those halves would have went pretty quickly, especially if someone saw them in the till and bought all of them off the cashier, which in some cases, can be highly likely.

Just my two cents.

 

If you work in a large retail store - you go by their rules - you don't make them up as you go.

 

Are you saying if I worked at a large retail store, I couldn't use $2 bills or halves unless they gave me special permission? (I have been thinking of getting a job as a grocery store cashier to circulate these two denominations in large numbers) I have always read on the offical government websites that, the way to get these denominations successfully circulating, is for merchants to use them as any other denomination. So, if the stores won't let you use them, then how the H:devil:ll do you get them into circulation? I have always thought about trying to sue the store if they tried to stop me from using the money I want to, or complain to the world headquarters of the said store chain that it is my right to use whatever denominations I choose, just like anyone else. I'm not saying that a law suit would work, in fact I don't know if I could sue in that manner even though my rights would be violated, but I could still complain to the world HQ.

 

I routinely spend $2 bill and half dollars. Whenever I am at the bank I ask for them. Some cashiers readily accept them, some act exciting and trade in dollars so they can half the half dollars (all clad of course), and then sadly, many look at it, ask ME what they are, or call a manager over and ask if they can take them. Twice I have been told, "Sorry, we do not accept foreign money".

 

Wow.