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title: It's all about the Jeffersons
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tags:
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- twos
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- offtopic
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I [recently
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discovered](http://unethicalblogger.com/2011/05/15/learnings-week-19-2011.html)
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that the branch manager at the Wells Fargo bank I frequent can order a
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bound stack of two dollar bills on request. This is rather handy since banks
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don't normally have *any* just "lying around."
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<center><img src="/images/two_dollar_500w.jpg" alt="Front-face of a $2 bill" title="Front-face of a $2 bill"/></center>
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Upon discovering this fact, I promptly requested a stack of 100 bills, or $200.
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As I left the bank that fateful afternoon, giddy with excitement over my
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**fresh** stack of uncirculated two dollar bills (I was rather lucky), I
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decided to embark on a little project: **I want to see if I can
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reintroduce two dollar bills into the local economy.**
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The ground rules I've been following:
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* Only spend bills at local businesses, tips are a great way to get back into circulation as soon as possible
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* Record all serial numbers of bills whenever a withdrawal is made
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* Don't spend more than 4-5 bills at a time, don't want to run the risk of irritating whoever I'm paying too much
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Thus far I've spent about $80 in twos between morning coffee and breakfast and
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a couple of other beer-related expenses and the reactions have been
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surprisingly boring. I had hypothesized that folks would have been a *little*
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bit more surprised or taken-aback by the sight of 3-4 crisp, sequential, two
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dollar bills.
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I suppose outside of an election year, there's nothing that really surprises
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most San Franciscans.
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#### The bills
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Since I've been recording the serial numbers on the bills, here's a quick break
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down of the districts this money was printed for:
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*Legend* **A**: Boston, **C**: Philadelphia, **E**: Richmond, **F**: Atlanta,
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**G**: Chicago, **H**: St. Louis, **I**: Minneapolis and **L**: San Francisco.
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* A: 1
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* C: 2
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* E: 1
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* F: 10
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* G: 1
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* H: 2
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* I: 14
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* L: 169
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I've not yet seen bills from New York (B), Cleveland (D), Kansas City (J) or Dallas (K).
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I personally find both two dollar bills and the movement of money interesting,
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EC (my wife) on the otherhand refuses to spend them.
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Can't win them all.
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