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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January 1st, 2008 at 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.
January 1st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
V- I don’t think it’s legal.
January 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Now that would be nice. But not in $1 bills, haha~ HAPPY NEW YEAR, Exene~!! ?
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 am
Lol. I hope Tobias Wong would be kind to give me a pad like that. Haha.
January 5th, 2008 at 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.
January 5th, 2008 at 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)
January 5th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Nice, but I did this in the 1980:s… ;o)
January 6th, 2008 at 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
January 6th, 2008 at 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.
January 8th, 2008 at 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!
January 12th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Thats awesome! I wish I had enough cash on me to do that….its so…convenient.
January 13th, 2008 at 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.
January 21st, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I just love money… please give me some!
Sweet!
January 22nd, 2008 at 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.
February 29th, 2008 at 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.
March 13th, 2008 at 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.
April 25th, 2008 at 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