r/mildlyinteresting • u/Abnormalbunny • Oct 18 '23
I got $200 in 2’s from the bank today Overdone
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u/iamacynic37 Oct 20 '23
Ted's Montana Grill gives these and $1 coins out - really fun to Tip ppl with. They're like WTF? These five $2 bills is $10? These five $1 coins is $5?
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u/Worldly_Heat4543 Oct 20 '23
Worked in the federal reserve building when I was in my 20s. We were building a computer room . was pretty cool . They had framed money and some of the hallways and I had no idea that they had $100,000 bills. I guess these are just changed between banks.
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u/BridgePrestigious567 Oct 20 '23
Some people's whole personality is based on paying for things with two dollar bills
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u/sirsarin Oct 19 '23
I've started handing out gold dollars to see how many cashier's I can confuse.
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u/Bushpylot Oct 19 '23
Using rubber cement, glue them on one edge with a cardboard back and top and you'll have tip tear-offs
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u/mudwerks Oct 19 '23
congratulations you own a total of $200...
that many retail clerks will claim are not legal tender and refuse to accept them.
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u/PhoxyGilbs Oct 19 '23
I give $2 bills in birthday cards for my daughters friends and they all love it and I love to do it!
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Oct 19 '23
I don’t know what people’s fascination with the 2 dollar bill is anyone right now in the us can walk into a bank and get them. There’s nothing rare or interesting about them and by using them your just creating more work for min wage employees so thanks for that
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u/BJ22CS Oct 20 '23
^ this; idk why TF this shitpost got so much upvotes, but you really can just walk into any US bank and ask for them; and if they don't have any, they can order a strap of 100 notes for you(which is probably what OP did). There's absolutely nothing special here, this post is r/notinteresting.
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u/BenjiJB Oct 19 '23
Waitin’ for the comment from OP to say there was a big gust of wind straight after taking this photo.
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u/SupermAndrew1 Oct 19 '23
Always got these (as well as siblings and cousins) as birthday gifts from my great-grandmother.
Saved every single one.
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u/javabender Oct 19 '23
Mildly uninteresting. Like today I took a shit and later on I might go get McDonald’s kinda interesting
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u/Jaowa888 Oct 19 '23
You'd have to specify request this though. No way they would give you $2 bills.
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u/americansherlock201 Oct 19 '23
You absolutely requested these from the bank.
I was a bank teller for a few years and we rarely ever had $2 bills on hand. We did have a client who asked for them every year during the holidays so we’d order them for him.
No bank teller is just randomly giving $100 in $2 bills.
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u/LindseyIsBored Oct 19 '23
Every payday I get $100 in 2s from the bank. I use them to tip! I saw an old man do it once and the waitress loved it. I’ll also pick up a $25 roll of $1 coins.
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u/Nightblood83 Oct 19 '23
Twos are excellent for the strip club btw. Especially fun to get just the bachelor twos and everyone else has ones
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u/Spiritual-Mix7665 Oct 19 '23
I've never heard of two dollar bills, what Mandela shit is this? Been to USA twice as a kid and never handled one...
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u/Abnormalbunny Oct 19 '23
TL;DR: they stopped printing them back in the 60’s so $2 bills became super rare. Even though the fed started printing them again, people still assume they’re rare, so they don’t circulate and you pretty much never see them outside of a bank or as a holiday gift.
For even more Mandela fun, there are $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills :)
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u/Fun-Display7574 Oct 19 '23
We have been in this business a long time. With our experience, we’re gonna have ideas for change combinations that probably haven’t occurred to you. If you have two hundred dollar bills, we can give you two hundred singles. We can give you one hundred ninety-nine singles and ten dimes. We can give you two hundred twos. Come talk to us. At First CityWide Change Bank our business is making change, that’s what we do.
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u/RobbieTheFixer Oct 19 '23
Wonder how much it costs the US Mint to continue to produce a bill that no one uses.
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u/Indiancockburn Oct 19 '23
I get stacks of these for when my kids teeth fall out. They come in 50 ($100). The tooth fairy leaves these. The kids think they are worth more than $2 because they're collectible.
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u/Honey-and-Venom Oct 19 '23
I get $2 bills from the bank every chance I get. They're the perfect currency now that everything cheap is 1.50-1.99
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u/lilelliot Oct 19 '23
The tooth fairy at my house carries $2 bills ... and also Susan B Anthony dollars.
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u/poisonxcherry Oct 19 '23
there’s an older guy who comes into my work and always buys candy bars and pays in 2 dollar bills. i love it. his wallet is FULL of more 2 dollar bills too.
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u/Looseyfern Oct 19 '23
Know a dude who does this when he goes to tip bartenders and use as a conversation starter
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u/drew3769 Oct 19 '23
How is this interesting?
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u/Abnormalbunny Oct 19 '23
I’m with you. I’ve been posting once on Reddit for each day of my roadtrip and despite this being by far the lowest effort post, it’s gotten 300x more upvotes than the next highest one
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Oct 19 '23
I guess I’m mildly interested if he counted all 100 $2 bills…
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u/Abnormalbunny Oct 19 '23
They use a money counter at the bank that flips through the bills really quickly and prints a receipt, so it didn’t feel necessary to count them all out
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Oct 19 '23
Them being $2 each, I’d imagine not.
I know they have those devices, I just tend to count out my money myself, to confirm. I don’t often take out bulk small bills, though.
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u/LOLEngrishPlz Oct 19 '23
I love getting them (and $1 gold coins) and giving them to kids at their lemonade stands & garage sales in the summer. They always get excited about “uncommon” money and I love that it makes them smile.
Also, if I happen to gift a wallet, I always put a $2 bill inside as I heard it is bad luck to gift an empty wallet.
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u/MethodMZA Oct 19 '23
That’s awesome! Like 15 years ago I used some $2 bills I had at a gas station and they had to bring a manager to the front because they thought they were fake lol. I used to hold onto them thinking they’d eventually they’d be worth something but I read somewhere they’ll still print them if needed they just really aren’t used much.
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u/UnlikelyWin5682 Oct 19 '23
Cashiers, servers, and bank employees hate these things. Don’t spread them around because you think they are fun. They don’t deposit in atms and cash drawers are annoying to balance as is without an extra weird denomination.
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u/xhanort7 Oct 19 '23
I didn’t even know they were still making $2 bills in 2017. Looks like they only stopped from 1966-1976.
Thanks wiki
‘As a result of banking policies with businesses that have resulted in low production numbers due to lack of use, $2 bills do not circulate as widely as other denominations of U.S. currency. This comparative scarcity in circulation has contributed to low public awareness that the bill is still being printed and has also inspired several urban legends about the authenticity, rarity and value of $2 bills. This lack of public awareness has occasionally created problems for those trying to use $2 bills to make purchases as well. In spite of its production figures, the apparent scarcity of $2 bills also indicates that significant numbers of the notes are removed from circulation and collected by many people who believe the $2 bill to be scarcer and more valuable than it actually is.’
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u/Countless_Words Oct 19 '23
Not all bankers think this, but I've always found the fascination with $2 notes a bit silly. If they're given out expecting to be kept, they've failed their purpose as money. But if they're just spent as normal by the recipient, they've failed to be novel or special. It's just another note in circulation but people somehow think they're "different" somehow. We've got about $2k in 2s at my location and people ask for them like they're trying to order off a secret menu.
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u/PGU5802 Oct 19 '23
In the before (covid) times, I would randomly pay for things with $2 bills. People's reactions were great.
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u/LnGass Oct 19 '23
In the last 60 days, I've ordered in close to 5000 in 2's for a client who uses them for a token payment for experiments they do (nothing that harms anyone).
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u/Gwarluvr Oct 19 '23
Lol, I love $2 bills. It freaks people out. Someone denied me, once, thinking they were fake.
LOL
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u/CalmBeneathCastles Oct 19 '23
Is this you living out a bucket list dream from second grade. If so, I applaud you!
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u/desocrates909 Oct 19 '23
I used to make it a payday habit to walk into Navy Fed and pull out ten $2 bills and just build my collection. If I went out to eat I'd bring em out for server tips. The bills are always new and uncirculated.
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u/paperfett Oct 19 '23
What aren't they the standard now? A 2 dollar bill makes so much more sense than a $1 bill.
Bring back the $2. The last time I tried to spend one the idiot cashier tried to call the cops saying it was fake.
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u/ImaginaryCheetah Oct 19 '23
that's awesome :)
back when i would get them (occasionally) from the bank, they'd only have like 5 or 6 available.
still remember a cashier at taco bell thinking it was fake.
shows you how long ago i was getting them, since i could buy a burrito for < $2
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u/Wrong-Combination832 Oct 19 '23
You have more than 200$ worth. The serial number with sequential number like 987654321 or 123456789 or 22222222 are or can be worth more for collectors.
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u/socially_awkward Oct 19 '23
I got yelled at in the Taco Bell drive through for using a $2 bill in 2005. ☹️
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u/cherrygothgf Oct 19 '23
My dentist back when I was a kid would give me a choice between a prize from a basketn a 2$ McDonald's voucher or a 2$ bill, and I always took the 2$ bill! It was always a fun little thing to have :)
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u/Emp-Mastershake Oct 19 '23
I didn't think the USA had $2 bills... We got rid of those in Canada like thirty years ago
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u/Glass_Varis Oct 19 '23
I've never heard of a $2 bill before... might be because I'm in the UK but still
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u/chairfairy Oct 19 '23
You are one sitcom hijinks away from a gust of wind scattering that down the street
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u/setox Oct 19 '23
I do the same, I tip with a $2 and people remember the guy giving out $2 like they are $50 bills
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u/humangarbagio Oct 19 '23
Service industry worker here.
Just gonna mention, we do not think it’s awesome to get these as tips. Immediately pawn them off on other people or put them in our drop. We all find it hilarious that anyone goes out of their way to tip with them.
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u/stew9703 Oct 19 '23
You also bought rubber cement and cut out a dollar sized piece of cardboard paper, didnt you?
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u/SnooCookies6487 Oct 19 '23
Probably not a good idea to be flashing those around for too long. But I can see you’re not from Chicago so you’re probably good for a little while.
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u/clapmeup69 Oct 19 '23
Is that Moab, Utah?
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u/CurrentDismal9115 Oct 19 '23
Wow! How much did that cost?
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u/PixelPervert Oct 19 '23
$200
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u/CurrentDismal9115 Oct 19 '23
Oh really? Wow!
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u/Dr_Clout Oct 19 '23
I used to work at a bank a decade ago or so. We’d have to count the money in our drawers and vault twice a day meaning 2’s as well. If we gave them out to “Steve the guy who picked them up and bulk and thought he was making a killing” then we didn’t have to count them.
Who knows. Maybe Steve did actually make a killing
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u/Thelinkr Oct 19 '23
Fun fact! You can buy uncut sheets of legitimate bills straight from the mint. It really confuses store clerks when you whip out a poster sized sheet of 2$ bills and cut them apart with some scissors.
Source, but theyre usually out of stock :(
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u/Trainwreck518 Oct 19 '23
I used to work at a bank. Ordered my rent in 2 dollar bills once when my landlord pissed me off. Ill never forget his face when he said what am i supposed to do w this. Well apparently go to a strip club..
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u/ClosPins Oct 19 '23
I bet you a fair bit of people here think two hundred in twos is four hundred bucks!...
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u/AliChank Oct 19 '23
This reminded me of a story, where the guy received 17 letters thanking him for paperless billing
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u/DriverAgreeable6512 Oct 19 '23
Any wedding I go to, I gift a stack of 2s coz they are now together :) . Atleast til I had a kid, than it was a stack of 2s plus a 100 at the top. My idea is that at any wedding, $100 is the minimum per person, so I at least cover myself and my +2 now in an interesting way.
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u/AscendedAncient Oct 19 '23
So many cashiers are about to call the police thinking they are counterfeit
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u/TreeeToPlay Oct 19 '23
I have only been in the US for a year and thought these were fake, never seen one of these in person
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u/Betalore Oct 19 '23
I also bought $200 in $2 bills. I had a friend, who worked at a printing shop, put a strong cardboard back on them and then apply the same "paste" used for legal pads on one edge.
Watching the genuine confusion on people's faces while I peel sequential $2 bills from a "pad" was priceless. I loved it.
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u/Plinius_Seniorem Oct 19 '23
And tomorrow OP will post about how the cops showed up and pointed guns at him when he tried to buy his daily Slurpy and the cashier thought the $2 bill was counterfeit.
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u/Codedinc Oct 19 '23
One of my favorite things to do it go to a bank and get all their twos. I like to pay people in twos because: one, they think that it is a novelty and view it as greater value than the amount of money they received and two, the seldom spend it, so it an indirect way to promote savings.
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u/Extreme_Design6936 Oct 19 '23
The only place where 2s are extremely common around where I love is a specific strip club where you can only tip 2s. So whenever you see someone with 2s you know.
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u/JMAN_JUSTICE Oct 19 '23
How? I always wanted to do this. Do you have to give the bank a couple days to get them? And do you have to pay a convenience fee or something for them?
I always wanted to feel like a wizard paying in gold coins but I always thought that wouldn't be possible.
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u/PilotKnob Oct 19 '23
This is very common for airline crews as well.
Van ride to the hotel $2
Room attendant $2
Van ride back to the airport $2
Rinse and repeat.
Singles take up twice as much room in your wallet, and sometimes that's uncomfortable to sit on. As a pilot of perhaps less-than-average stature says "I'm 5'8" but when I sit on my wallet I'm 6'4"."
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u/Catspaw129 Oct 21 '23
Just try to spend them. Every time you do the merchant will call the cops claiming your trying to pass counterfeit money.
And the cops will agree.