Where's George?

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MarleysGh0st · #1 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:40 am

Beast will be pleased to know that I got my first Where's George-marked bill since September!

And this George has led an exciting life; he's gone a whole 13 miles since he was registered in October.

peacock2121 · #2 Post by **peacock2121** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:44 am

It is really cute that you play this game.

MarleysGh0st · #3 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:52 am

peacock2121 wrote:It is really cute that you play this game.

Thank you.

I'm haven't been completely hooked by it, since I haven't bought one of those Where's George rubber stamps to start marking my own bills.* But if I notice receiving one in change, I'll take a moment to register a hit for it.

And as I said, the remarkable thing is how long it's been since I've seen one. Like beast and his WG friends haven't been doing their job, lately!

*Oh, and I'm also a traitor to the cause, because I encourage the use of the presidential dollar coins, which don't have serial numbers.

peacock2121 · #4 Post by **peacock2121** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:59 am

Traitor!

Traitor!

Traitor!

minimetoo26 · #5 Post by **minimetoo26** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:34 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:

*Oh, and I'm also a traitor to the cause, because I encourage the use of the presidential dollar coins, which don't have serial numbers.

I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I also haven't seen Where's George in months. Then again, I went to Hobby Town, went to pull out my credit card, and it was missing. I realized I had left it in the pocket of my jeans when I went to the pharmacy, 10 days before. So I haven't been going out frequently since I was sick. Luckily, I had another card that I knew was active with me....

#6 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:38 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:

*Oh, and I'm also a traitor to the cause, because I encourage the use of the presidential dollar coins, which don't have serial numbers.
I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I also haven't seen Where's George in months. Then again, I went to Hobby Town, went to pull out my credit card, and it was missing. I realized I had left it in the pocket of my jeans when I went to the pharmacy, 10 days before. So I haven't been going out frequently since I was sick. Luckily, I had another card that I knew was active with me....

I have several people at work on the lookout for them for me to enter. When my sister was a CSM at our store, she'd always pull aside marked wilds, which probably accounts for 1/5 of the 102 I've entered. Now she's working at a Quik Trip and comes across gobs of them and says she doesn't have the time to pull them out anymore....

lb13

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #7 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:41 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:

*Oh, and I'm also a traitor to the cause, because I encourage the use of the presidential dollar coins, which don't have serial numbers.
I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I also haven't seen Where's George in months. Then again, I went to Hobby Town, went to pull out my credit card, and it was missing. I realized I had left it in the pocket of my jeans when I went to the pharmacy, 10 days before. So I haven't been going out frequently since I was sick. Luckily, I had another card that I knew was active with me....

If you buy stamps at the post office vending machines, you will probably get change in dollar coins.

My bank never had the dollar coins and I learned this trick to stock up "tooth fairy" money.

I don't need this type of money any more.

minimetoo26 · #8 Post by **minimetoo26** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:43 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:

*Oh, and I'm also a traitor to the cause, because I encourage the use of the presidential dollar coins, which don't have serial numbers.
I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I also haven't seen Where's George in months. Then again, I went to Hobby Town, went to pull out my credit card, and it was missing. I realized I had left it in the pocket of my jeans when I went to the pharmacy, 10 days before. So I haven't been going out frequently since I was sick. Luckily, I had another card that I knew was active with me....

I have several people at work on the lookout for them for me to enter. When my sister was a CSM at our store, she'd always pull aside marked wilds, which probably accounts for 1/5 of the 102 I've entered. Now she's working at a Quik Trip and comes across gobs of them and says she doesn't have the time to pull them out anymore....

lb13

Before Where's George, I worked at a Burger King, and people would sometimes use silver certificates to buy fast food! I kept ones in my wallet to switch out for those bad boys. But I would give them to my dad, and I'm sure he's offloaded them long ago...

NellyLunatic1980 · #9 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:44 am

I got that "Where's George?" bill back in 1999.

minimetoo26 · #10 Post by **minimetoo26** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:45 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:

*Oh, and I'm also a traitor to the cause, because I encourage the use of the presidential dollar coins, which don't have serial numbers.
I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I also haven't seen Where's George in months. Then again, I went to Hobby Town, went to pull out my credit card, and it was missing. I realized I had left it in the pocket of my jeans when I went to the pharmacy, 10 days before. So I haven't been going out frequently since I was sick. Luckily, I had another card that I knew was active with me....
If you buy stamps at the post office vending machines, you will probably get change in dollar coins.

My bank never had the dollar coins and I learned this trick to stock up "tooth fairy" money.

I don't need this type of money any more.

I buy stamps two rolls at a time, so it's a credit-card transaction...

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #11 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:45 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote: I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I also haven't seen Where's George in months. Then again, I went to Hobby Town, went to pull out my credit card, and it was missing. I realized I had left it in the pocket of my jeans when I went to the pharmacy, 10 days before. So I haven't been going out frequently since I was sick. Luckily, I had another card that I knew was active with me....
If you buy stamps at the post office vending machines, you will probably get change in dollar coins.

My bank never had the dollar coins and I learned this trick to stock up "tooth fairy" money.

I don't need this type of money any more.
I buy stamps two rolls at a time, so it's a credit-card transaction...

I usually buy mine online now.

minimetoo26 · #12 Post by **minimetoo26** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:47 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I got that "Where's George?" bill back in 1999.

I haven't worked since 1993. I be old...

#13 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:48 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote: I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I also haven't seen Where's George in months. Then again, I went to Hobby Town, went to pull out my credit card, and it was missing. I realized I had left it in the pocket of my jeans when I went to the pharmacy, 10 days before. So I haven't been going out frequently since I was sick. Luckily, I had another card that I knew was active with me....

I have several people at work on the lookout for them for me to enter. When my sister was a CSM at our store, she'd always pull aside marked wilds, which probably accounts for 1/5 of the 102 I've entered. Now she's working at a Quik Trip and comes across gobs of them and says she doesn't have the time to pull them out anymore....

lb13
Before Where's George, I worked at a Burger King, and people would sometimes use silver certificates to buy fast food! I kept ones in my wallet to switch out for those bad boys. But I would give them to my dad, and I'm sure he's offloaded them long ago...

One of the first straps of ones I got from the bank when I began Georging seriously 5 years ago was almost all old bills (Obviously someone cleaning out their parents'/grandparents' stuff). Lots of Series 63A & 63B's (Some in very good condition), 74's and 85's. There were 2 mint condition Series 1995 bills out of the 50 ones, and they were the only post-1980's singles in there. I think I kept about half of them, which cut into my money supply for that week, but there was no way I could send some of those nice looking relics out...

lb13

kayrharris · #14 Post by **kayrharris** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:50 am

I found out about the dollar coins for change at the Post Office when I used a twenty dollar bill to buy one book of stamps several years ago. I put them in a small box for my daughter to use as tooth fairy money for her daughters.

I still get them on occasion as our post office is so crowded the vending machine is the only way to go. I am also afraid I will spend them like a quarter when I'm in hurry, so I keep them separate from the rest of my change.

MarleysGh0st · #15 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:32 am

minimetoo26 wrote: I wish I ever saw any of THOSE! My kids want them, and we have maybe two. I have a bunch of Sacagaweas, but few George or Johns.

I've got a roll of James Madisons I'm spending now. But it is difficult to find a good supply of them at the bank, so I could go through them a lot faster than I can acquire them. Until one gets them in change as a matter of course from stores, instead of making special efforts to get them, those $1 bills--WG-branded or not--are in no danger of being replaced.

peacock2121 · #16 Post by **peacock2121** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:51 am

I, for one, don't want any more coins rattling around in my coin purse.

I like dollar bills. They lay nicely and are orderly.

As all things should be.

MarleysGh0st · #17 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:56 am

peacock2121 wrote:I, for one, don't want any more coins rattling around in my coin purse.

I like dollar bills. They lay nicely and are orderly.

They also wear out much more quickly than coins.

The situation may be different for you ladies, who carry all your stuff around in a purse. For guys, who usually carry their money in their pocket, it's easier to get dollar coin from a handful of change than to open up our wallets to retrieve a bill.

And coins are sentimental favorites for this old miser, harkening back to a time when were actual precious metals.

#18 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:01 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:I, for one, don't want any more coins rattling around in my coin purse.

I like dollar bills. They lay nicely and are orderly.
They also wear out much more quickly than coins.

The situation may be different for you ladies, who carry all your stuff around in a purse. For guys, who usually carry their money in their pocket, it's easier to get dollar coin from a handful of change than to open up our wallets to retrieve a bill.

Before I got into WG, my paper money was wadded up in my pocket along with my change. I only carried a wallet to keep my ID in. That changed the first time the stamps smudged due to being wadded up in my sweaty pocket for days and days....

lb13

silvercamaro · #19 Post by **silvercamaro** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:39 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:I, for one, don't want any more coins rattling around in my coin purse.

I like dollar bills. They lay nicely and are orderly.
They also wear out much more quickly than coins.

The situation may be different for you ladies, who carry all your stuff around in a purse. For guys, who usually carry their money in their pocket, it's easier to get dollar coin from a handful of change than to open up our wallets to retrieve a bill.

And coins are sentimental favorites for this old miser, harkening back to a time when were actual precious metals.

The dollar bills don't wear out nearly so quickly as the handbags that must carry many coins. In addition to being heavy, coins are death on the linings -- and the purses may cost far more than the dollars, whether coins or paper, that they carry.

I have not yet encountered the new dollar coins. I am in no hurry to do so.

earendel · #20 Post by **earendel** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:45 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:The situation may be different for you ladies, who carry all your stuff around in a purse. For guys, who usually carry their money in their pocket, it's easier to get dollar coin from a handful of change than to open up our wallets to retrieve a bill.

I don't carry currency in my wallet, either. It all goes into a pocket. I find it easier that way.

tlynn78 · #21 Post by **tlynn78** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:44 am

I got a Where's George this morning. I will go to the website and see where he's been.

t.

tlynn78 · #22 Post by **tlynn78** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:00 am

Hm. From Willliston, ND (6/22/07) to Bismarck (11/25/07) to here (today).

I did my part and registered it. Happy georging.

t.

MarleysGh0st · #23 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:09 am

tlynn78 wrote:Hm. From Willliston, ND (6/22/07) to Bismarck (11/25/07) to here (today).

Well, that's a longer trip than my George has had.

#24 Post by **littlebeast13** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:20 am

tlynn78 wrote:Hm. From Willliston, ND (6/22/07) to Bismarck (11/25/07) to here (today).

I did my part and registered it. Happy georging.

t.

Here it is

lb13

tlynn78 · #25 Post by **tlynn78** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:24 am

Here it is

You are a spooky man.

t.