Tag: Money

Can you guess how much money is in this bag? Our copywriter at work Lisa was exchanging her change and we agreed this would be a fun game. How much money ya think is in here? My original guess was…

The iThink application on facebook brings up interesting debates. Here’s one point someone was trying to make: The most influential religion in the world today isn’t Judaism, Christianity, or Islam ‚Äì it is the worship of money. I disagreed. Here’s…

If you can afford the high price of collecting real coins, maybe you’ll be able to afford the high price of collecting Upper Deck’s rare coin trading cards. It’s a great idea to make trading cards featuring high-priced coins that…

Tired of counting money when playing Monopoly? “Oh wait, I don’t have enough singles, can you trade me a $10 for ten singles?” Don’t worry about that anymore! Now with Electronic Banking Monopoly, each player gets their own credit card.…

Today (Monday, November 19) is 733,000th day since January 1, 0001. Seven hundred thirty-three thousand days. That’s a lot. 733,000 pennies would weigh 2.29 tons. But then check this out: A million pennies visualized. Doesn’t look like much, eh?

Ut oh. Apple’s stock is eventually gonna drop (not right now, but in the coming years). You watch. iTunes is gonna stop being the one main source for music and tv content downloads. The entertainment industry is catching on that…

These coins were so bright I couldn’t even see them. Is the USA Mint putting extra gloss on the coins? Boy howdy seems like it!

I like to pay for things with only two-dollar bills. It this a work of art? It’s like a performance piece, and it certainly creates a range of reactions from joy to intrigue to confusion. Read more about this adventure…

A wallet full of two-dollar bills is like carrying around a wallet of joy. People get excited with unexpected encounters of two-dollar bills, and for some people it’s just the regular course. The two-dollar adventure unfolds many personality traits. Getting…

Go to the bank, and exchange all the money in your wallet for two-dollar bills. Everyone loves getting a two-dollar bill. Why not make that your default bill of exchange? I’m gonna do this (it’s now on my 43things).

Here is a dollar bill that was found in Chicago and posted to foundmagazine.com. It’s amazing how someone spills her heart onto a dollar bill. A public item. But then at some point you have to actually hand your heart’s…

Try to break this world record. With one hand, grab the most pennies you can hold. Your hand must remain palm-side down the entire time. And you have to hold the pennies for 3 seconds. Here’s a video of me…

Yesterday’s post was the 1,500th post on spudart.org. Whoa. That’s a lot of posts. I try to make one post every weekday, and I’ve been doing this for almost six years now, so I guess it makes sense I’m up…

Idaho state quarter. Quick–what do you think? Potatoes, right? I’d LOVE to see a potato on a United States quarter. It would be the coolest state quarter ever. Everybody loves the wheat penny. But a spudquarter would be even better!…

If you carry more than five bucks in coins out of the country, you could get fined $10,000 per incident. The U.S. government doesn’t want people melting pennies and nickels into raw material. (source: coins blog.) What about when people…

Alexander Hamilton is featured on the American 10-dollar bill. The source of this image is John Trumbull’s 1805 portrait of Hamilton that belongs to the portrait collection of New York City Hall. Here’s animation featuring the portrait overlayed on top…

Imagine if nickels were made mostly from copper. Oh wait. They already are! According to CNN, nickels are made mostly of copper, and that pennies are made mostly of zinc. How bizarre. You’d think it’s the other way around, that…

Set aside the regular six-sided dice and try these replacements for dice. Coin Instead of playing monopoly with a regular set of dice, what if instead you played with just one coin? It would totally change the dynamic of the…

It’s rather sneaky that claw vending machines take dollar bills. If they only took quarters, then I wouldn’t be as likely to play them, because I don’t always have change on me–let alone two quarters. Plus the dollar enables the…

You’re buying something on Amazon, and if you buy it through an associate (like me), I can make 5% of the order at no extra cost to you! So I’ve made a bookmarklet that will stick my associate code onto…

In December I bought a used vertical file cabinet at a thrift store for ten dollars. What a find! It was literally an answer to a prayer (the filing cabinets we looked at other places were $75 and up). The…

The strategies of the “Deal or No Deal” producers used to make the game show more dramatic: 1) Dramatic Stage Host Howie Mandel stands in a quiet back room with 26 sealed suitcases numbered 1 to 26. One of those…

If you have a car or a large price item, and decide to sell it, you should ask for payment in two-dollar bills only. Imagine that, a lifetime supply of two dollar bills. Anytime you pay for something, you can…

United States coins have always featured protraits from the side. The new 2006 Jefferson nickel will be the first to have a front-facing portrait. Why have all the previous coins had profiles for the portraits? Here’s some thoughts: A) Coins…

After nearly 100 years of depicting presidents in somber profiles on the nation’s coins, the Mint is trying something different: The new nickel features Thomas Jefferson, facing forward, with the hint of a smile. The forward-looking 2006 nickel front was…

Here is a comparison of the 1800 Rembrandt Peale painting and the 2006 United States nickel. (Here’s a slightly different animation of it with the coin at a lighter opacity: animation 2)

I was born in 1975, such a nice number–75. Three quarters exactly. However, it’s funny U.S. didn’t make any quarter coins in 1975. The year of three quarters has no quarters.

What song did you have to sing for grade school/junior high graduation? That song “Wind Beneath My Wings” made popular in 1989 by Bette Midler was the official graduation song for my 8th grade class. We had to vote on…

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.…

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,…

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…