You've got to watch this video. Any one have any legal opinions on it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuWSsJKDQTo
They're real two dollar bills. He sends them off to a printing company that proceeds to turn them into the preforated stacks you see in the video.
He talked about that when I saw him speak a few months ago. It's a real neat idea. In this video he made it sound like they were fake, but I don't think he was serious.
As Reported on BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/23/howto-make-a-pad-of.html For those of us who are feeling lazy, see: http://www.moneypads.com/products.html
If you want to save the fees of having them made all it takes is a stack of new singles and some elmer's glue..You put some weight on the stack to keep it compressed and paint several coats of glue on the desired edge. Richard
My grandfather had stacks of $5 bills that he had made into booklets, if he needed one he just peeled one off. (there is a red wax on the right edge holding them together) I have kept the last booklet in my collection.
I wouldn't want to carry around a pad of these everyday. But at coin shows I normally have a briefcase, I might make a pad of $20's for that purpose.
Just FYI, you can use hot glue as the sticky. Most books are held together with good old hot glue... You can just take a stack of bills, and Spackle hot glue on one edge than affix a strip of paper on top of the glue, and wal-la a booklet of money... I might give it a try myself? BTW: I could of swore I had a booklet of (25) one's when I was a kid - given to me by my grandmother???? She probably got it at a gift shop in the 70's??? BTW2: Buying uncut currency is awefully expensive as a gag? I guess no big whop to a billionaire! I bought an 8 subject sheet of $2's for 32+- bucks last week at the BEP gift shop while on vacation! That's 32 bucks for 16 dollars of uncuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that is eccentric! What a cool grandfather. Lucky you to have a stack left over for yourself too.
By today's standards this may be seen as odd but back in the 1980s and 1990s it was a much more common practice. It wouldn't have been all that uncommon to find heavy sticky pads of $1 bills (or in this case fives) used on office desks as paper weights or as novelties, etc.
This was in the comment section, under the video clip; He is not printing them, he is having a printer make the pad. He is buying sheets of $2 bills from the mint, cutting them to size of the pad, and getting his printer to perforate the paper. Then gluing them into a pad form. It is still real money just in a form no one is use to. If you notice he says "I got a printer to make these pads for me". He is playing with words and joking to make you think he prints them. Genius
That's pretty neat I must say. Never seen one before and I might just get one :hail: Thanks for sharing
