Making a present out of cash

[Karel]

....or how to give money as a present.

Any ideas on how to decoratively wrapped dollar bills? My teenage son wants money, cold, hard cash for his birthday.

I read once about sticking bills between a loaf of bread.

ANy other ideas??

 

[CdnDisneyNut]

Pinning the bills on a plant. A money tree.

 

[Free4Life11]

My mom made me a car and cut little slits in it and rolled up 20 dollars bills and put them in the slits. She always makes homemade cards, so it was kind of nice.

 

[illini]

For my wedding shower one of my gifts was balloons with money in them. The balloons were clear so you could see what was in them and they were filled with helium. It was really cool.

 

[raammartin]

For my wedding shower one of my gifts was balloons with money in them. The balloons were clear so you could see what was in them and they were filled with helium. It was really cool.

That's a cute idea!

 

[Disney Doll]

I have bought a cheap apir of gloves (like at a dollar store) and rolled up a bill and slipped it into each finger.

 

[minkydog]

I give money to my teenage nieces and nephews for Christmas and I always buy a big candy bar and tape the bill to the back of it.

 

[polly p]

My MIL took one dollar bills and taped them end to end and put them in a decorated tissue box. they kept coming out and coming out. The kids loved it.

 

[ElizK]

One of DD13's friends gave her 15 one dollar bills for her birthday. It looked like a wrapped gift box with a ribbon, but when you pulled the ribbon the bills, taped together into a long line of bills, came out. Hard to describe, but it was a really cute idea.

 

[JerryMoCricketsGal]

I give money to my teenage nieces and nephews for Christmas and I always buy a big candy bar and tape the bill to the back of it.

You are like the Golden Ticket in willy wonka!! Feel free to bring me Candy anytime!!

To the OP...(ok...so I am probably the WORST parent in the world..but, she's a great kid, so I musta done something right..lol)....you need to throw him off guard. If he WANTS cash, and he thinks he's GETTING cash, then make sure you get him a card..and then inside the card, itemize his expenditures on a list (groceries, clothes, ect) and tell him that you would have given him the cash if you had it, but this is what it went to...lol

Then get him a new CD or something, and put the cash inside it.

I know it's evil, but, it makes em think...lol

Just don't make him wait too long between the card with the list and the cash...

Whatever you decide to do, I hope your son has a WONDERFUL birthday..i'm sure he will.

 

[vettechick99]

I pulled this trick on my friend when I was invited to her birthday party. Since it was right after Christmas we had all these leftover boxes. So I wrapped her present in the smallest box I could find. Then we wrapped that box in the next size up. Then we did it over and over again til we had like 5 or 6 boxes wrapped up.

It's funny to watch their face -- they can't figure out what's going on!

 

[almacdonald]

When i was saving up to buy a car, my mom rolled up a bunch of bils and stuck them in the trunk of a model car. I thought it was pretty clever! I'm waiting for my next birthday, maybe i'll get a dollhouse with an appropriately larger roll of bills.........

 

[Ava83]

I saw someone at work make up the bills like roses.

 

[Chereya]

I saw someone at work make up the bills like roses.

If you are any good at origami paper folding, you could try to look up a website with instructions for folding dollar bills. I know how to fold heart shapes and had given one to my DH when we were dating. I also used to leave them as tips for waiters/waitresses if I thought they did an exceptional job.

Chereya

Edit: I searched google images for origami money and got a lot of different pictures for ideas.

 

[Karel]

Thanks for the ideas.

I like the balloon idea but I'd have to go to the Dollar store for the helium and don't want his birthday preset to blow away!

The money folding idea is good. I'll look at that. Maybe string them together some how....

Can you take the tape off of bills without ripping them? Guess I'll try it.

I was thinking of putting it in something but he's getting money and Patriot drinking glasses. I could tape them together and curl them up in the glasses.

 

[FroggyinArk]

i have actually taped hte bills together and used that as wraping paper for an empty box,

 

[Stacerita]

I one time got money as a gift that was in a roll of toliet paper. Not in the center hollow of the roll. But in between the sheets. The person unrolled it and placed the bills in it. Rolled it up some, placed another bill. And kept on till the whole thing was full of bills.

 

[Twinkles6892]

For my cousin's birthday, my mom got him a $20. So being the evil big cousin I am, I took a little gift bag and took the cardboard lining out of the bottom and put the money under it and put it back, then I put tissue paper in the bag. He opened it and was like 'haha Megan, nice gag gift" He almost threw it away. He felt stupid, and mad at me

 

[Karel]

Bingo! We have a winner. The toilet paper idea is great. Totally unexpected and easy too.

I was thinking of freezing it - has anyone frozen money before? Once, from a friend, he received a big bag of change.

Thanks everyone for your ideas!

 

[MrsKreamer]

I have an aunt who is a pastry chef. For my HS graduation they gave me like $20 or so but it was in a fortune cookie! They wrapped the bill in plastic wrap, and put it in a huge fortune cookie. Then she took a Chinese take-out box and put in tissue paper and put the large cookie inside. It was the coolest gift I ever got. Must have been b/c that was 6 years ago!