Tipping with $2 bill

[Haljo1935]

6 hours ago, lissie said:

...Every other currency of equivalent value (even far less in the case of NZ) got rid of notes under $5 for coins years and years ago...

Coins are worse - they're heavier and rattle around in your luggage; cannot be carried neatly in a wallet. 

Please we need less coins, not more.

Edited May 10, 2023 by Haljo1935
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[lissie]

2 hours ago, 3rdGenCunarder said:

 

I think most countries that successfully made a change from paper to coin discontinued the paper so people had no choice. As long as we print dollar bills, people won't want the coins. 

Exactly - the notes disappeared in common circulation within about a week - you could still use them for a few months - after that businesses didn't have to accept them anymore and you had to take them to  a bank to exchange them. Total none issue 

[lissie]

16 minutes ago, Haljo1935 said:

Coins are worse - they're heavier and rattle around in your luggage; cannot be carried neatly in a wallet. 

Please we need less coins, not more.

That's true - but I actually had to go and get some coins in the bank the other day - for parking meters when I don't want to pay the extra fee for using a card. They live in the car. I've not carried coins for years. In fact I normally don't have any notes either 

[Banditswife]

12 hours ago, Florida_gal_50 said:

Have you had an problem getting ones? I remember on a few cruises them never having ones.  Ever since I’ve bought a ton of ones with me (not literally)

We have never asked for more than 5 ones, which was not a problem.  Casino has ones as well.

[TiogaCruiser]

11 hours ago, 3rdGenCunarder said:

 

I think most countries that successfully made a change from paper to coin discontinued the paper so people had no choice. As long as we print dollar bills, people won't want the coins. 

Especially since many attempts at a dollar coin have looked annoyingly similar to a quarter.

[baggal]

18 hours ago, Live4cruises said:

I've been thinking of taking $2 bills to use as small tips aboard, merely because half as many are required as a stack of $1's. Has anyone else done that?  They're so unusual, I don't want people to think they're being duped. 

 

Thanks!

I can't imagine that bringing a stack of $1 bills would be such an inconvenience to you.  Since you brought up the subject, how much were you planning on bringing?

[3rdGenCunarder]

1 hour ago, TiogaCruiser said:

Especially since many attempts at a dollar coin have looked annoyingly similar to a quarter.

 

The Susan B Anthony dollar coin was perceived as a design failure. It looked way too close to a quarter. That said, my elderly grandmother could pick out the Susan B from a bunch of quarters, just by feel. 

 

The trick to having fewer coins in your pocket is to remember to spend them, not just drop them into purse or pocket. I'm inclined to toss coins into my purse, and eventually dump them out. I'm always delighted when I dump out the change when I'm in Canada or the UK and discover that much of the pile is 1 or 2 dollar/pound coins. 

[Shmoo here]

1 hour ago, 3rdGenCunarder said:

The trick to having fewer coins in your pocket is to remember to spend them, not just drop them into purse or pocket. I

That's the problem in our house,  my sons and husband don't like spending change, and just drop the change in a pocket when they buy stuff  until they have a giant amount of it. 

 

I, on the other hand, will spend change, so I trade my bills for their coins.  That means I always have a bulging wallet   

[DCThunder]

Here's more than you ever wanted to know about Two-dollar bills:  United States two-dollar bill - Wikipedia

 

It mentions that they were commonly used at racetracks for betting on horses and that led to some of the stigma around them.

 

BTW, if ships had a "Gentlemen's Club" on board, then there would be a great demand for $1s to tip Mysty, Brandi, and Bubbles as they performed.  😎💲😈

[USN59-79]

When I was in the Navy we were paid in cash on pay day.  I never saw this happen, but heard that sometimes Navy bases and ships would pay with $2. bills so the local merchants would appreciate the good that the Navy was doing for the local economy.

Ray

[lostchild]

20 hours ago, Lakesregion said:

Cash registers in the US do not have a draw for $2 bills. 

 

Exactly.  When I was a cashier at a gas station, we all (all the cashiers) hated the $2 bills, but the most hated bills are $50 bills.   We also hated the $1 and $0.50 coins.   There is no place to put those in the cash register.  If you put them outside, they might get lost.  If you put them under the other bills, you could accidentally give out the wrong change.   The only place is under the drawer and that's supposed to be $100 bills only.

[auntmeg]

3 hours ago, USN59-79 said:

When I was in the Navy we were paid in cash on pay day.  I never saw this happen, but heard that sometimes Navy bases and ships would pay with $2. bills so the local merchants would appreciate the good that the Navy was doing for the local economy.

Ray

My mom said that when we lived in Long Beach, California they paid the sailors in $2 bills to show the impact.

[OlsSalt]

52 minutes ago, auntmeg said:

My mom said that when we lived in Long Beach, California they paid the sailors in $2 bills to show the impact.

 

An often told tale. I heard the same thing in the 1960's at Wright Patterson Air Base in Dayton Ohio, so it applied to the Air Force too.