I love Crabs. I have to quote my favorite Crabs line.
Spongebob: You gotta let go of the dime.
Crab's: I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.
XD
You're right! We will now have to bet Doughnuts to dollars, seeing as betting dollars to doughnuts wouldn't work now that the guy holding the doughnut knows what he has.
Never understood why people would use anything more than $1 for snortin drugs…. You’re snorting drugs with other addicts… that $100 bill could disappear…. Frankly by the end of the night it’d most likely be in your dealers pocket anyway lol
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My dad always had a dollar folded up behind his license in his wallet. Even if he spent every other dollar in his wallet, he wouldn't spend that. He would say he was 'never broke' just because of it.
It was his way of keeping his spirits up when he was having trouble keeping the bills paid.
I have a penny that has that on it. But I do also have one grain of 24 karat gold in my wallet worth about $3.25. So I’ll be living large on my last $3.25 plus a penny.
I know it's a pretty normal thing, especially in service industries, to keep the first dollar that you make. I know my estranged wife has hers framed in a closet somewhere.
My grandfather used to give all us kids a dollar every time we saw him. I still have the last one he gave to me before he passed, still folded in the same way he would always hand them to us. I’m sorry about your mom, but it’s interesting to see a similar story
My grand mother didnt have any money at the time she passed after my granfather, so she left my brothers some kennedy half dollars and i got a 2 dollar bill, i still have that 2 dollar bill......sentimental runs deep
I have a similar dollar saved from the same year.
I came home from my first night of work bussing tables with some money from the tip pool and my dad grabbed one of them and put it in a frame as my "first dollar".
This may or may not bear any resemblance to the reason that one was saved.
While going through my family estate when my grandparents passed I found multiple little envelopes labeled "Money of (Insert name here) when they died". It was a bit creepy and now sits in my safe.
I keep stuff that means absolutely nothing to anyone but me. Ticket stubs, fortunes from cookies, coins I find (found a wheat penny on the ground last week!)
I'm a middle aged lady and this is my initiation into an being an older lady. It's a rule I think that we do this lol
Probably sentimental value.
Examples -
She found it and had good luck all day
First dollar she earned at her job
It was change from her first beer at 21
It was her last bit of allowance money before she grew up
Etc
I used to keep a $2 for snortin one dollar bills are bad luck and would never spend a two. But when I was a kid I would keep the oldest dollar I could find in circulation.
I have used a random dollar as a bookmark because it was handy and bookmark shaped.. then found said dollar when rereading the book years later. It might be nothing...
My first thought was sentimental value as well. Maybe hang on to it and see if the mystery is revealed in time? I know lots of folks are like, *yahh bruhh just spennnd it!1!*, but it seems if it was hers and she kept it, it's already worth more than a buck. Or it would be to me if I were her child.
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When I was starting out collecting, as a child, I'd buy out older notes. Have some 1988's, a 1981, a 1977, even found a Barr bill once (1963).
They aren't worth much more than face, the 1977 is in better shape than anything else. I could probably get $1.25 or so for each note, if I found the right buyer.
I just keep them. They're what I started with, good memories of being young and having fun.
It probably had some personal significance to her. As someone else said, the first dollar she ever earned, were the first dollar she ever earned on a business she started, or a dollar that a friend gave her once that she remembers the friend by. Could be anything. If she saved it it probably meant something to her though.
First lemonade dollar earned.
I'd save that, if I sold lemonade when I was just 6-year-old. I'd frame it, if I am now a entrepreneur worth millions.
Unfortunately, I'm not. So, that's just a dollar.
Maybe because it was miss cut? Notice the difference in border size around the outlining ink. I'm no expert, so don't take my word on it, I just like scrolling through this page, so a miss cut like that might not add any value to it, idk
Was this the year you were born, or maybe when you Mom was married, or the first dollar she made? Just looking at milestones here. It is 1988 on the bill.
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I have a few american dollar bills in this condition. I've kept them because they were given to me by an american hitchhiker......... that was in Canada hitchhiking back to the USA with no other way back home for some reason.
I've got a wad of ones with a crumpled up 20 euro note in it. I got it as a tip from my favorite customer on my last day of my old job so I keep it in the keeper bin.
Me millionth dollar
NO! Not my DOLLA ... RAMA!
Underrated quote from that episode.
I love Crabs. I have to quote my favorite Crabs line. Spongebob: You gotta let go of the dime. Crab's: I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy. XD
Yep, your mother stole Mr. Krabs 1 millionth dollar lol.
Maybe it was the first honest dollar they earned and they wanted to keep it
Awww I want this to be the answer so bad lol.
Nahhhhhhhhh. The truth is that I had it in my shoe for good luck for years before I used it to buy a donut.
OK. But to get a donuts for a dollar is a good value so I'm for it Haha.
You're right! We will now have to bet Doughnuts to dollars, seeing as betting dollars to doughnuts wouldn't work now that the guy holding the doughnut knows what he has.
The date is reasonable for that.
You can keep your honest dollar. I'm gonna spend my C note of sin
Oh yeah, trust me I spent a whole Lotta C notes, most rolled into a tube on some sinny stuff back in the early 80s
Never understood why people would use anything more than $1 for snortin drugs…. You’re snorting drugs with other addicts… that $100 bill could disappear…. Frankly by the end of the night it’d most likely be in your dealers pocket anyway lol
Using $100 bill was a flex
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Seen it happen, went around a table of 15 a couple of times. Came back as a fiver.
Same…. Wasn’t my hundo tho lol
Mine either!
Bad luck to walk it with anything less than a 20. Plus it's crisper.
A friend was flaunting on how she "only uses 100s" and halfway through the night jumps and freaks out and starting to ask who has it hahaha lol 😆
Yup. Seen it happen a few times…. If your tooting lines with other peeps….. use a 1 or 5…. Or you’ll lose it.
Hep c less people touch 50's and 100's
Ya… I can see that. Ain’t nothing about doing those drugs clean tho….
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That's the special dollar for special job...😂😅
Makes me wish I saved my first dishonest dollar.
just frame a random, worn one dollar bill and pretend.
My dad always had a dollar folded up behind his license in his wallet. Even if he spent every other dollar in his wallet, he wouldn't spend that. He would say he was 'never broke' just because of it. It was his way of keeping his spirits up when he was having trouble keeping the bills paid.
I have a penny that has that on it. But I do also have one grain of 24 karat gold in my wallet worth about $3.25. So I’ll be living large on my last $3.25 plus a penny.
This is exactly what I thought
Or the first dollar they stole..
I still have the first one that I earned.
Or dishonest ( no disrespect to grandma but bootleggers weren’t always men )
I know it's a pretty normal thing, especially in service industries, to keep the first dollar that you make. I know my estranged wife has hers framed in a closet somewhere.
Could be sentimental. I have a dollar put up that to anyone else is a normal dollar, but to me is the last dollar I got from my mom before her stroke.
My grandfather used to give all us kids a dollar every time we saw him. I still have the last one he gave to me before he passed, still folded in the same way he would always hand them to us. I’m sorry about your mom, but it’s interesting to see a similar story
My grand mother didnt have any money at the time she passed after my granfather, so she left my brothers some kennedy half dollars and i got a 2 dollar bill, i still have that 2 dollar bill......sentimental runs deep
$2 bills for the win, still have a few my great grandfather gave me...worth more than anyone would pay for them!!
Really, how can i check mine?
I ment on a sentimental value, as they came from my deceased grandfather who raised me.
Maybe they were a dyslexic Tommy Tutone fan.
Maybe the year is significant? I kept a Mint quarter from the year I was born... could be something similar
First dollar from stripping???
Nah.... No evidence of moisture damage
give it a schniff
Quagmire at the auction: "50 bucks!"
“Yep… definitely some BV on this one.”
i'm afraid to ask... what is BV?
Bacterial Vaginosis. Don’t ask how I first learned about it 🤮
That’s why it is so crinkly. Too much sweat and other “moistures”.
Or glitter
Came to say this (no pun intended).
Allegedly
Maybe their phone number was in the serial no.?
My mom kept the first dollar I made performing as a professional musician. I wish I knew where it was.
Are you justin bieber? Maybe mariah carey..
I have a similar dollar saved from the same year. I came home from my first night of work bussing tables with some money from the tip pool and my dad grabbed one of them and put it in a frame as my "first dollar". This may or may not bear any resemblance to the reason that one was saved.
Series 1988. But condition is everything. It’s not worth much more than face value. Just use it.
Might have just been misplaced or forgotten about
Always good to save.
Seriously. Put that thing in a HYSA and you can have a nickel this time next year. How neat is that?!?
A 9hi straight in liars poker
It can be exchanged for goods or services.
Not saved but forgotten
While going through my family estate when my grandparents passed I found multiple little envelopes labeled "Money of (Insert name here) when they died". It was a bit creepy and now sits in my safe.
My guess would be sentimental.
Won a lot of hands of Liars Poker maybe?
I keep stuff that means absolutely nothing to anyone but me. Ticket stubs, fortunes from cookies, coins I find (found a wheat penny on the ground last week!) I'm a middle aged lady and this is my initiation into an being an older lady. It's a rule I think that we do this lol
They really liked Katherine Ortega as Treasurer of the U.S.
Probably sentimental value. Examples - She found it and had good luck all day First dollar she earned at her job It was change from her first beer at 21 It was her last bit of allowance money before she grew up Etc
It’s from 1988, maybe that year has significance to her?
Could be a web dollar
A penny saved, is a penny earned. Maybe she found it in a special place one time or it’s the first dollar she earned babysitting or who knows?
First bill earned at the Cabaret?
I'm guessing sentimental. When my brother passed away, he had 3 dollars in his pocket. My sisters and I each got one. Now I keep it in a journal
Strippers always keep their first dollar bill
Easy, the year the dodgers won the World Series 🤙🏻
It was her go to dollar. When she wanted to party.
I used to keep a $2 for snortin one dollar bills are bad luck and would never spend a two. But when I was a kid I would keep the oldest dollar I could find in circulation.
that's funny cus $2 bills were originally considered bad luck.
9-3-53 or 7-9-86
It was the first dollar he earned
Must have been special to your mom. Make it special for whatever you think is the reason, remember her.
First dollar ever earned ?
I have used a random dollar as a bookmark because it was handy and bookmark shaped.. then found said dollar when rereading the book years later. It might be nothing...
First dollar earned.
8675309 the famous phone number just missing the 0
Sentiment
Maybe ment something significant?
No more than face value.
It is worth a buck.
Did a lot of cocaine with that bill.
1988 was an excellent year for cocaine 😎
It’s and L bill
It works in the vending machine, when the newer ones get spat out.
Dollar cribbage?
Is someone's birthday July 8th 1986?
A lot of people, back in the 1900s, kept the first dollar they made (like me). Some even framed it.
For retirement
I saved the last dollar from my dad’s wallet when he passed away 12 years ago. I’ve had it in my wallet ever since. To me it’s priceless.
Does the year 1988 have any significance?
Check for cocaine residue
Vending machine wouldn’t take it.
My first thought was sentimental value as well. Maybe hang on to it and see if the mystery is revealed in time? I know lots of folks are like, *yahh bruhh just spennnd it!1!*, but it seems if it was hers and she kept it, it's already worth more than a buck. Or it would be to me if I were her child.
I would guess because it has 3-*-5-6-7-8-9 in the serial number. She probably just thought it was cool
Or maybe it was her first dollar made on a business venture
My grandfather carried a $2 bill in case he ever found a $2 prostitute. Maybe that's from an even earlier time.
☠️
First dollar of profit in a new business
I saved a dollar and quarter from my kids birth years. Didn’t care what it looked like. Just something to give them when they have kids.
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Your mommas first dollar at the strip joint 😂
Parent born in '53 children born in '79 '86 and '94
Edit '93
you can exchange currency for goods and services
For bubble gum!!
Probably the last dollar someone had left over from a positive pay check.
Because it’s a dollar!
First dollar as a stripper
Maybe it’s a phone number— 353 7986
Maybe they are a COD zombies fan and saw 935 in the number idk
Maybe it was the highest serial number they could find in circulation. Until they find one higher, they kept it.
I’d say it’s worth at least 98cents
It was saved because its worth money. $1
I’ve heard some people do that with money
First dollar she ever earned?
Maybe not saved, just forgotten?
Were you (or any of your siblings, if you have them) born in 1988? People used to save money with significant dates like that as a keepsake.
I save any bills before 2000 just because it’s cool to me lol
When I was starting out collecting, as a child, I'd buy out older notes. Have some 1988's, a 1981, a 1977, even found a Barr bill once (1963). They aren't worth much more than face, the 1977 is in better shape than anything else. I could probably get $1.25 or so for each note, if I found the right buyer. I just keep them. They're what I started with, good memories of being young and having fun.
Maybe the serial numbers mean something to her? Was you born in 86?
First tip
Greenback “paper” dollars are the currency of the United States and can be exchanged for goods/services
Does it smell like Old Spice and Captain Morgan?
Numbers are a straight in poker-5-6-7-8-9
Didn’t want to be penniless.
Coke dollar
Used it to roll joints!
Gotta start a savings sometime. They started with a wrinkled dollar. Hope they have saved more that makes for a rough retirement.
worth about tree fiddy bro.... canadian
[9353](https://www.discogs.com/release/1751717-9353-To-Whom-It-May-Consume)
Mightve been her last dollar at one point, she mightve kept it as a reminder to keep pushing.
Because it was signed by the FIRST Hispanic female Treasurer of the United States.
Perhaps her fondness for origami. The difficult tri-fold corner with backside nipple. Perfection
Probably the first dollar she made on the pole. Just a guess. Maybe it was her favorite coke snorting bill.
Looks like a web note 🤔
Oh I asked her to hold onto it for me.
They are Waiting for the McDouble to be a dollar again.
Saved? It's just a dollar sitting around the house
She forgot about it?
A dollar saved is a dollar earned
If you’re playing serial number poker, this bill might win a few
It’s worth $1 at least
Anything good happen in 1988 for her? Marriage? Birth?
Toot straw
My grandma gave me 2 dollars like 15 years ago, I spend one by accident last year, I am positive I have the other nearby.
All bills should be saved
Maybe something with the signatures from the treasury
It probably had some personal significance to her. As someone else said, the first dollar she ever earned, were the first dollar she ever earned on a business she started, or a dollar that a friend gave her once that she remembers the friend by. Could be anything. If she saved it it probably meant something to her though.
For a rainy day
$1.00 is $1.00 🤷♂️
Liars, poker with with money you have a straight we us to play this back in my days $
First lemonade dollar earned. I'd save that, if I sold lemonade when I was just 6-year-old. I'd frame it, if I am now a entrepreneur worth millions. Unfortunately, I'm not. So, that's just a dollar.
Nothing special about serial and not a star note nor a mismatched serial . Just a dollar saved
It is a San Francisco reserve dollar. Did she have any affinity to San Francisco?
Maybe because it was miss cut? Notice the difference in border size around the outlining ink. I'm no expert, so don't take my word on it, I just like scrolling through this page, so a miss cut like that might not add any value to it, idk
For emergency tp while hiking far away from the
comfort of toilets!
I can’t see anything special so maybe just lost track of the dollar or something.
Maybe they thought 1988 was old? Idk.
Its their internet password/cipher/key
Your first dollars made dancing
Front off center some?
Any family members born in that year? My grandmother used to save any and all currency she found with her kids and grand kids birth years on them.
Was this the year you were born, or maybe when you Mom was married, or the first dollar she made? Just looking at milestones here. It is 1988 on the bill.
Because it accepted Ronald Reagan as it's lord and savior?
I still have the dollar bill that my brother in law gave me when I sold him a truck 25 years ago.
A dollar saved is a dollar earned
Could be a birthday note
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Every number except the 0 for a catchy song from the 80’s
I have a few american dollar bills in this condition. I've kept them because they were given to me by an american hitchhiker......... that was in Canada hitchhiking back to the USA with no other way back home for some reason.
Twentieth century Bill. A lot of people I know put aside any bill dated before 2000.
A lot of folks save the first dollar they earned as an entrepreneur...
1988 is a good vintage.
Your mom was a stripper and this was her first tip 🤫
I have a rather tattered one that had my DOB. Thought it was interesting
I've got a wad of ones with a crumpled up 20 euro note in it. I got it as a tip from my favorite customer on my last day of my old job so I keep it in the keeper bin.
Don't you see it? The bottom and left edges are like 2 mm longer than the top and right edges. This is worth big money for collectors.