January 1, 2008 @ 1:38 am
Money Pad
Imagine handling your money like this. Tobias Wong the designer took his money to bind at Kinkos but they wouldn’t bind money because it’s a federal offense.
He eventually found someone that could do it. Read his interview over at theme magazine
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Posted by V
January 1, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Steve Wozniak (guy who co-created Apple with Steve Jobs) buys sheets of $2 bills from the US Mint and has them cut into booklet form (with perforated edges) just like that picture. When I read that, it amazed me that that was even legal–or that they sold money in sheet form legally.
Posted by Exene
January 1, 2008 @ 6:54 pm
V- I don’t think it’s legal.
Posted by Jenn~
January 1, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
Now that would be nice. But not in $1 bills, haha~ HAPPY NEW YEAR, Exene~!! ?
Posted by Christian
January 2, 2008 @ 2:15 am
Lol. I hope Tobias Wong would be kind to give me a pad like that. Haha.
Posted by Rob M
January 5, 2008 @ 7:31 am
My uncle, who worked as a printer in a printing shop while he was still alive, used to go to the bank and get 50 brand new $1 bills and bind them into a pad just like that one, only he bound them so that the spine was at the top of the bill, not on the side. He used to give me one every Christmas.
Posted by tron
January 5, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
you can buy sheets of 2 dollar bills, i’ve seen them at coin collector shops and my dad had one on his wall years ago. I think because the 2’s havent been produced since the 70s i think, but i also seem to remember him having a sheet of 5’s. they can legally be bought though (sheets if 16, that is)
Posted by Lars D.
January 5, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
Nice, but I did this in the 1980:s… ;o)
Posted by kw
January 6, 2008 @ 1:30 am
They do still print 2 dollar bills. They actually are printing twice as many as they used to, I think that the strip club business really is leading the push, giving out two’s instead of ones for change to give the dancers
Posted by Malcolm
January 6, 2008 @ 1:50 am
When did it become a federal offense ? I have gotten padded money from my bank for years. It makes a novelty gift.
Posted by Dito
January 8, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
“It was worth three hundred dollars. I decided the buyer would pay three hundred, I would get a hundred, the gallery or retailer would get a hundred, and the buyer would get a hundred. So we’d be even.”
Brilliant!
Posted by Zarvon
January 12, 2008 @ 10:49 pm
Thats awesome! I wish I had enough cash on me to do that….its so…convenient.
Posted by Bob
January 13, 2008 @ 12:18 am
I haven’t requested one in about 15 years, but Banks actually had pad of 50 $1 dollar bills available on request. I used them almost exclusively when I was a kid. They were bound at the top edge with a clear glue, but basically the same thing. It’s only illegal to destroy currency, which this does not in the slightest. Besides, I image you would have to be destroying an insane amount of monies before anyone would consider enforcing that law against you.
Posted by Dana
January 21, 2008 @ 8:18 pm
I just love money… please give me some!
Sweet!
Posted by jcaraway
January 22, 2008 @ 12:18 am
someone paid $300 for $100 in bills? this is stupid, you could buy this at ceaser’s palace and it even came with it’s only little check book like cover.
Posted by Nick Maranzano
February 29, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
I’ve gotten several of these from the bank. Its just a federal offense if YOU bind it. If the government binds it, thats fine. On top of the fact its unoriginal, its kinda pretentious . But to each there own.
Posted by Jim
March 13, 2008 @ 6:38 am
Actually, it is only illegal to use defaced currency. Since binding bills together is not defacing the currency, this is perfectly legal.
Those little machines they have at the zoo that squash pennies are defacing the coins. Trying to use one of those, or turning it in to a bank, is a federal offense.
Posted by Sandy
April 25, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
My grandfather used to give me pads of $1 bills for Christmas when I was a kid and I thought it was awesome.
As for the machines that squish pennies, that is legal. Here is a website for elongated collectors: http://www.pennycollector.com/faq.html