Can you pay someone in coin wrappers? Amazon sells 1000 wraps for $4.18. Each wrap holds 50 pennies. So it’ll cost ya $4.18 to wrap $500 of pennies–the wraps will cost less than 1% of your money (0.836). Not bad. So 1000 wraps will hold 50,000 pennies. Stack 50,000 pennies up and you will end …
Yesterday I explained why the simple standard 57-year-old classic is so delicious. Now here’s a tutorial on dine a hamburger from McDonalds: 1) Do not order a cheeseburger Order a hamburger. Not only because it’s ten to twenty cents cheaper, but it’s also not as bad for you. Hamburger Cheeseburger Calories 260g (-) 310g(-) …
Does $1.25 in nickels equal the same weight as a soda pop? That handful of nickels sure has a nice hefty weight. It was fun putting all 25 nickels all into the soda machine as fast as I could. Next time I’ll time myself. I dare anyone to post their fastest time to put 25 …
If anyone is looking for a custom-printed pen with your logo and/or phrase, here’s the place: Office Depot. For real. A couple of days ago someone in the Museum of Contemporary Art asked me for a pen. I let him borrow one thinking it would have been really cool if I had a Spudart pen. …
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What if there was a tax on gum? Apply the current cigarette tax onto gum, and each individual piece of gum will cost $0.28 each compared to $0.30 per cigarette. Here’s how the formula used to figure it out: Cigarettes: $6.00 pack (with tax) 20 cigarettes in a pack $0.30 per cigarette Gum: $0.83 pack …
Don’t ever write your name and address on a fifty dollar bill. It looks like someone was going to write their name and address on the back of a 50-dollar bill. This person was perhaps imagining that MAYBE someone might find it and actually return it to him/her. But then common sense probably struck this …
Chicago certainly has a plethora of restaurants with Golden in their name. Which is always fun, because gold has nothing to do with the restaurant itself. * Gold silverware… goldenware? nope, standard stainless steel. * Gold coins for change? Nope, regular USA currency. Although it would be fun to go to every Golden restaurant and …
I was in a brainstorm meeting for a brochure. What kinds of folds shall we use? Gatefold? Double Gatefold? Frenchfold? Mapfold? Accordianfold? Barrelfold? (examples) We are playing with all these different options of folds. Fold this. Fold that. la la la. Then the best fold of them all… The crumble fold! Imagine. Getting a crumbled sheet of …
Here’s a new spudart feature: beat-up coins. We all get ’em and find them amusing. Just how much our currency goes through from person to person. Here’s three examples of beat-up coinage. The coin on the far left has no ridges on it. All quarters have ridges on the edge. But not this one. The …
how many pennies can you send via 1st class mail (within USA)? (i have the answer, but am working on some fun graphs to illustrate the answer) The first person to guess correctly will get that amount of pennies mailed to him/her.
Photoshop CS would not allow me to open up the scans of the 20-dollar bills from the previous post about Thoughts on money. This was the error message: This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images. For more information, select the information button below for Internet-based information on restrictions for copying and …
