Wait! Don’t stash your $2 bill in there! It isn’t going up in value anytime soon. The best thing to do is spend it.
Wanna know why?
There are 7 good reasons, and they all begin with the letter C.
If you think any of these are controversial, and you want to criticize or complain,
you can do so in the Comments. You C ?
Now on with the list.
The number one benefit of using the $2 bill is convenience.
If you’re buying eggs for $3.99, it’s easier to pay with this than this.
Buying a kitchen knife for $19.99? With tax it’ll be around $21.40.
A twenty and a two is the perfect way to pay.
No matter how you slice it, the two reduces the number of bills in most transactions.
Plus, who makes dollar purchases anymore?
A pack of gum is $1.20. Paying with a dollar doesn't get you anywhere. So the two is where it's at.
While we’re at the register, the second C is a double:
How about Cashier Confusion?
It's fun to see people's reactions when you spend twos.
They're looking at them like it's from outer space.
Sometimes they have trouble - where do I put the bill in the drawer because there's no extra slot.
They don't know what it is. Is it real? They call the managers, oh we don't take these!
'We don't take these' is the best one. Why don't we take these?
and then they ask the manager, and 'of course we take these.'
Once the cashier has figured everything out, they’re likely talk to you about it,
and that makes C number 3 a Conversation starter.
Probably 90% of the time when I spend a $2 bill, someone just starts talking,
because they're very excited to see this bill that they think is very rare.
If not every, than almost every time that you give a two, people react.
It's a smile, it's a story, it's the ability to get a response. I love that.
So it sparks a lot of conversation but also, it makes my transaction with that person memorable to them.
And that leads directly into benefit number four.
When you use two dollar bills, you become an instant Celebrity.
People remember you. So when you go to a restaurant, and you tip in twos,
you come back next time and there's a half hour wait for a table, you go right to the front of the line.
You get your car pulled up in the parking lot very fast, you're the two dollar bill guy.
This gentleman in New York gives out twos so frequently that he’s become popular in the music industry for handing them out to top artists.
Don’t believe me? Just ask Drake.
"You knew every lyric to that song." "For you!" "And you just gave me a 2 dollar bill!"
2 dollar bill guy. People didn't know me as Steven Reisman, people knew me as, "oh that's the $2 bill guy, that's the $2 bill guy."
That should be all the proof you need to know that the fifth benefit of using twos is…
it makes you Cool!
Because everywhere you spend them, the people who like them, they go, "Cool. Where did you get this?"
I think it is cool! Why else would grandparents save them and stick them in birthday cards?
Why would they put them in Christmas presents?
I mean, people find them as something fascinating and special, and so,
they tend to use them that way.
Number six takes us in a whole different direction.
This benefit involves Cleanliness .
Anybody who works with money knows that money is dirty.
Cashiers, waitresses... everybody knows how filthy bills are. Considering how little twos are handled,
they're probably more germ-free than ones.
They're a lot less scary from a health perspective. You're not worried about...
getting something from a two dollar bill.
Finally, the most important benefit of all.
When you use $2 bills, you’re getting them back into Circulation.
Well that's exactly why we spend twos.
We go through about sixty or seventy thousand dollars a year in twos.
and the whole idea is really to just, you know, to create awareness.
If we treat the $2 bill like something it's unique, and fantastic, and not something to be shoved aside
and forgotten, it'll come back into more popularity.
So keep your twos out of the sock drawer, and let them benefit you in one or more of these ways.
If you’re still not convinced, you’re probably guilty of believing one of the top 5 misconceptions about the two dollar bill.
Click on this video to learn what those are and see how many you’ve fallen for.