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I don't know much about New England culture, but one thing I do know is that the best way to deal with those c-notes is to walk into a retail store just after it opens and use the $100 bill to buy a pack of gum. Be very specific about the breakdown of change you want back. Demand ones and fives.

 Captain Fantastic wrote:
They're a rarity, but technically legal tender, so no, you didn't get 'the shaft'. If someone gives you a 2000 yen bill, you got the shaft though. Same with five yen coins.

At least 5 yen coins felt like they were made if metal, unlike 1 yen coins which I'm still 90% certain were made of plastic. I used a few to keep the air vents in my car from flopping down.

 cincydooley wrote:
You guys get caribou and all we get is dead mostly white people?

Jealous.

mostly white? When did Bill Clinton get on to our money?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I don't know much about New England culture, but one thing I do know is that the best way to deal with those c-notes is to walk into a retail store just after it opens and use the $100 bill to buy a pack of gum. Be very specific about the breakdown of change you want back. Demand ones and fives.

Or you could just go to any of the thousands of banks and have them break the 100's for you. And I don't know why but "New England culture" is making me crack up so bad right now haha. We prefer massholes and everyone else haha. Honestly though 100$ bills aren't an issue whatsoever and as long as you don't try to buy a pack of gum only with 1 nobody cares about breaking them.

Whenever I travel to the US I'm always paranoid I'll mix up the one's and the higher bills.

Much prefer our $1 and $2 coins

 gossipmeng wrote:
Whenever I travel to the US I'm always paranoid I'll mix up the one's and the higher bills.

Much prefer our $1 and $2 coins

How are you mixing them up? They have the numbers right on there.

Exactly if even dumb Americans can figure it out it shouldn't be a problem for others ;p

Chancetragedy wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I don't know much about New England culture, but one thing I do know is that the best way to deal with those c-notes is to walk into a retail store just after it opens and use the $100 bill to buy a pack of gum. Be very specific about the breakdown of change you want back. Demand ones and fives.

Or you could just go to any of the thousands of banks and have them break the 100's for you. And I don't know why but "New England culture" is making me crack up so bad right now haha. We prefer massholes and everyone else haha. Honestly though 100$ bills aren't an issue whatsoever and as long as you don't try to buy a pack of gum only with 1 nobody cares about breaking them.

Sure, going to a bank is the right thing to do, unless you feed on human misery. Then, it's "Barrista, I want 15 fives and 25 ones. And I'm in a huuuuurrrrrrryy!"


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 Grey Templar wrote:

 gossipmeng wrote:
Whenever I travel to the US I'm always paranoid I'll mix up the one's and the higher bills.

Much prefer our $1 and $2 coins

How are you mixing them up? They have the numbers right on there.

Sure they have numbers, but if you are in a hurry the bills are just a bunch of crumpled green papers. I prefer my colourful plastic bills

I like to withdraw a stack of the $2 bills and use it to tip / donate. Hiarity ensues when folks question "is it real?"

 whembly wrote:
I like to withdraw a stack of the $2 bills and use it to tip / donate. Hiarity ensues when folks question "is it real?"

more like jailarity, amirite?

 Ouze wrote:

 whembly wrote:
I like to withdraw a stack of the $2 bills and use it to tip / donate. Hiarity ensues when folks question "is it real?"

more like jailarity, amirite?

Didn't go that far... but, most of the time it's "woah, I've heard of these before" or "are they real? Cooooool." My uncle would give a two-dolla bill everytime I see him when I was growing up. It *somehow* made it easier to save it, rather than immediately spend it.