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My uncle laughed at me for saving $2 bills, now he wants to know where I get them | Controversial Takes - Talk Freely

My uncle laughed at me for saving $2 bills, now he wants to know where I get them

So last month at a family dinner in Raleigh, my uncle Dave spots me paying for pizza with two $2 bills and goes "nobody uses those, they're not even real money anymore" right in front of everyone, and my cousin laughed along with him. Thing is, I've been pulling $2 bills from my bank teller for about a year now, maybe $40 worth a month, and I just set them aside in an envelope. Not for some big investment reason, I just think they look cool and honestly half the cashiers I hand them to act like I gave them a piece of gold, one guy at a gas station asked if he could keep it. Dave thinks anything that isn't sitting in a bank gaining 4 percent is a waste, and he said that exact thing to me, "a waste of a drawer." But here's the part that gets me, two weeks later he texts me asking which branch orders them for me because his grandson saw mine and wants some for his birthday. I just want to know if I'm the weird one here. Is it actually dumb to collect small bills just because you like them, or is Dave right that every dollar needs to be working for you? And if you do collect cash, how do you store it so it doesn't just get spent on tacos like mine almost did last Friday?

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jordan_anderson909d ago

The real question is whether you got them from a teller who orders them or just whatever they have on hand. Some branches keep a strap or two in the drawer for folks who ask, others make you fill out a form and come back in a week. If Dave's grandson only wants a few for a birthday, he doesn't need a whole branch connection, he needs a bank that'll hand over what they've got and maybe not charge him a fee for ordering. Also worth knowing, the $2 note has been printed in waves since 1976 and there's no shortage, so nobody's sitting on a rare thing. The collector value only shows up on old stuff like red seal notes from the 50s or uncut sheets. Set aside the cool factor and you're basically just holding twenties in pairs.