Cover Your Walls With Cash
Wall panels may be "in" and wallpapers are "out," but if you have your heart set on wallpaper, you might want to try using the one the one thing that will never go out of style: money. The US Bureau of Engraving and Printing sells uncut sheets of currency that can either be framed and put on display or, if you really want to go all out, used as wallpaper to create a really unforgettable atmosphere in your home or office. The sheets are available in bill denominations from $1 to $50 and vary in size. Each piece is priced accordingly, ranging from $900 for a 16-bill $50 sheet to $31 for a 16-bill $1 sheet.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dottore Aug 23rd 2006 1:16AM
Imagine your surprise when you come home from a night on the town to find burglars ignoring your TV set and, instead, hard at work with a putty knife scraping your walls.
ArcSine Nov 4th 2006 10:28AM
...Why not use cut bills if the uncut sheets are sold at double their cut value? I'd be more than happy to tape 16 $1 bills together to make 93% profit.
Paul Aug 23rd 2006 10:59AM
They've been doing this for decades. I remember my parents buying a sheet of $2.00 bills when we did the family trip to DC at age 6. What I don't recall is if they overcharged for it back then. A sheet of 16 $1.00 bills should cost $16.00. Since it actually costs the Government less to produce (no cutting and no shipping to Federal Reserve Banks, which is insanely expensive). I guess they're trying to produce a little extra income, and the coolness of having all those bills on a sheet might be worth a couple extra bucks, but you'd have to be a helluva sales person to convince me to give you $31.00 in exchange for currency worth exactly $16.00. That's a poor investment, even by government standards.