Tag: Money

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…

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:…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The previous post on quantifying actions was written on a twenty-dollar bill, because I didn’t have any other paper on me. It’s fun to write your to-do notes and ideas on money. This very post was written on some money.…

Every time someone says, “Did you know that Chipotle is owned by McDonalds,” this offender owes $1.00 to the person that they told. This will be a nation-wide trend on par of the slugbug/punchbug and “pinch poke owe me a…

This record has GOTTA be an easy one to break: The longest time a coin has been spun until coming to a complete rest is 19.37 seconds by Britain’s Scott Day. WANNA BREAK THIS RECORD? Here’s what you need to…

Per the request of Laura k to leave a political post, here’s one: Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wants to replace Alexander Hamilton with Ronald Reagon on the $10 bill, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif) wants Reagan on the $20, and…

U.S. Mint to unveil new nickel designs. It’s interesting they chose to release two different designs. Perhaps to go with the phrase “rubbing two nickels together.” What does that phrase mean?

hey, with this new $20 bill, all of the old bills will no longer be valid by this saturday. You can just send them to me and i’ll take care of disposing of them.

I would toss them all on the street and make a roadblock. Then I’d stand there and photograph people as they grab as many pennies as they can carry. That would be kinda interesting, because in all reality, you can’t…

Ever lay a coin on the ground and see watch people’s reactions? Why not put a sticker on the back with a word to peak the finder’s curiosity. Or even better yet, use a combination of words so when the…

Everyone loves the two-dollar bill. It’s always a pleasant surprise to recieve one as change. And the joy of using at the cash register is immeasureable. The U.S. government should issue a new one-dollar bill in 2001, a new two-dollar…

I lost money this yesterday. At the train station, I thought I put $20 on my transit card. Walked through the turnstile and waited for the train. A lady came by and found $20 on the ground. She asked me…

If you glue two one-dollar bills together so you cannot take them apart without destroying them, what is it worth? One dollar or two dollars? Yes, it is two dollars glued together, but since you cannot take them apart, you…

I just ordered a bunch of stuff off http://www.orientaltrading.com to promote my site. Here’s what i got:* 36 plastic leis (gonna put a little spudart tag on it)* 12 beach balls (with spudart.org written on it)* 96 tiny plastic lizards…

Ever notice how symmetrical the backs of U.S. coins are?* Penny: Lincoln memorial is very symmetrial* Nickel: Monticello’s building is very symmetrical* Dime: Torch flanked by an olive branch and oak branch is pretty symmetrical* Quarter: The eagle is very…