Two Dollar Bill

[Cigar Mike]

Originally Posted by hammondc

I need some $2 bills. Do banks still keep them?

It's up to the bank. Back home the local branch I used got used to me coming in every few weeks and buying out all their $2s. Usually it was about $30 worth. I'd use them around town for small purchases, at the coffee shop, tips, farmer's markets, etc. Good conversation starter.

They eventually got used to me asking and I didn't get funny looks all the time after a while. The tellers would end up trading them all into one drawer and they'd tell me which teller to go to when they saw me coming.

I never had any trouble spending them, though. I did have one old guy see me put one in the tip jar at his sandwich shop and he darn near killed himself jumping around out of the kitchen to get his hands on it he was so excited...