Thread: Got lucky today....

Originally Posted by Geezer

PS. Keep a 2$ bill in your wallet, may be good luck...but then you never know when the extra 2$ will be really handy! Garage sales especially!
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I had to check my wallet and I have seven of them in there.

My stash of them is running a little low and I got 30 of them when I cashed my check today.

The funnest recent use was when the Girl Scouts came to my door selling cookies. They were $4 a box. Good use for a $2 bill! When I paid the girls she got a weird look on her face and quickly went back to the Dad/chaperone pulling the wagon on the sidewalk and showed him. I couldn't hear what they were saying but watching was much fun.

You know what they were saying!
"Daddy, is this real money?"

When I was kid helping my Dad cut yards there was one older gentleman that would often give me and my brother a crisp $2 for helping.

Originally Posted by JP5

Got it.
Glad you got a good laugh out of it anyway!
Yesterday put my shoes on before going to work after taking care of my daughter all day. Wife starts laughing, HARD. I look down and I'm holding the pink diaper bag.

Was that you I saw in WalMart the other day???

Originally Posted by JP5

You know what they were saying!
"Daddy, is this real money?"
When I was kid helping my Dad cut yards there was one older gentleman that would often give me and my brother a crisp $2 for helping.

A city near the Navy base was giving the swabies a bad time.Then they were paid in $2 bills...funny thing, every cash register and most every purse and wallet in town had one or more two dollar bills by the end of that pay period!

~Richard

I would never wear boots like that.

Originally Posted by JP5

I would never wear boots like that.

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Back in the '60 s My father-in-law who was a big coin collector would sort through coins and save the ones that were collectibles and spend the rest. One day my wife's Mom got a call from the school letting them know that her brother was trying to pay for lunch with some buffalo nickels (which are only worth a nickel depending on condition). They thought he was stealing coins from his Dads collection!

I've collected some coins from here n there, but my favorite find was a 1820 penny. I found it in the gravel on the playgrounds at school, I was in third grade, and felt like I had discovered the holy grail.




And the $2 bill.



And $50 in $1 silver certificate's



And don't forget the tin, pennys.

If you were going to "mine" coins these days, I would suggest the high copper content pennies, and a crucible.

I went through the Dunkin Donuts drive through .....and handed this 40 year old women a 2.00 Bill for my coffee....she ran to her boss...and thought it was fake...lol..she got an education that day...lol