You can wrap your Christmas presents like a stroke victim, or you can wrap them like Carlos Slim Helú, in sheets of crisp, uncut $50 dollar bills. The drawback: these bills come from the treasury themselves, they are real currency and they cost more uncut than they would simply by ripping the bills out of your wallet, dipping them in glue and slapping them on a package. Not to mention the fact that ripping this wrapping paper on Christmas morning is a federal crime.
Uncut Currency [Money Factory via OG via Oh Gizmo]
It’s not a crime to deface American money — only to spend defaced money, particularly with the attempt to deceive (i.e., pasting the corners of a Hamilton onto a Washington.)
Shouldn’t that be a double “p”? Wrapping? It looks like it ought to be pronounced like “raping”.
Real gift-wrapping pros don’t use tape.
16×50=800. So this is an $800 bill. How’s that inflation going?
In the voice of Mr. Burns: Excellent.
And the kids willbook?”
Oops. That was supposed to read:
And the kids will still just heft the package, shake it once or twice, roll their eyes, and sneer, “another book?”
One of the challenges that the BEP has with this product is credit card fraud since it is an easy way to turn a stolen credit card into cold hard cash.