# Anyone who uses wheresgeorge.com? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119 "2003-04-21T20:20:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/1 "2003-04-21T20:20:16Z")
Last Friday at the supermarket I received a one dollar bill in my change which was stamped with the [www.wheresgeorge.com](http://www.wheresgeorge.com) web site. I’ve probably received a dozen or so dollar bills marked with this message on it. After forgetting to do it a each time such a bill has fallen into my hands I decided to sign up and enter in the information from my bill. I was hoping to see that perhaps it had traveled all around the country and back, but I was only the first to update its whereabouts since it was listed, which was 279 days ago. The person who registered this bill lives in Boise, a mere 12 miles away (according to the site, it’s really not quite that far) from where I live. Who else uses this site? Do you regularly track where your money is going, literally _going_, that is? How often do you put WG-marked bills out into circulation? What’s the highest denomination you have stamped or have received? Any good stories on where your bills have been? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/2 "2003-04-21T20:52:27Z")
I’d actually forgotten about this site. Thanks for reminding me! I went back and checked on the one and only bill I entered into the site (I didn’t register the bill, only updated when I recieved it). I got the dollar bill in July '02 in Las Vegas, at the Stratosphere Casino after playing blackjack. I brought the bill back here to L.A., and spent it at a Ralphs grocery store. I got all excited when you reminded me about this site, 'cause I wanted to see what had happened to the bill. Alas, no one has updated anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/3 "2003-04-21T21:29:18Z")
I got my first wheresgeorge bill about four or five months ago. I was the first to register it. Only a few days ago I received an email saying that someone else had posted about that bill. It had travelled only 35 miles. Dammit. When I go to Europe I think that I will put some into currency exchange just to see what becomes of it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/4 "2003-04-21T21:35:48Z")
I got my first wheresgeorge bill about four or five months ago. I was the first to register it. Only a few days ago I received an email saying that someone else had posted about that bill. It had travelled only 35 miles. Dammit. When I go to Europe I think that I will put some into currency exchange just to see what becomes of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/5 "2003-04-22T00:23:23Z")
I love wheresgeorge! I have entered about $200 worth of currency, but I’ve only got two updates on my bills. One had stayed within the state, and the other was still in the state that I had spent it. I think that if you go to the faqs, it actually says that bills (dollar bills especially) tend not to go too far or too fast. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/6 "2003-04-22T00:54:59Z")
I enter bills from time to time. I have almost 200 “hits” but nothing very interesting. Most of them haven’t made it out of state, except for the ones that I’ve taken on vacation and spent somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/7 "2003-04-22T03:02:40Z")
I recently found 4 of them, on different days, in change from different places. I’ll enter them soon. ---
**Author:** ![Gamahuche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8baadc/32.png) [@Gamahuche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamahuche)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/8 "2003-04-22T03:19:41Z")
I manage a gas station on an interstate highway. I have all my cashiers set aside any WG bills they find. I enter them and then send them on their way. The only extraordinary thing that ever happened was that a bill came _back_ to our station. WG told me I had already entered the bill, and a check of my bill history showed an entry from a couple of weeks prior. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/9 "2003-04-22T20:12:20Z")
I’ve only found one…I entered it, then went out and spent it. No one else has entered it after me though. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-who-uses-wheresgeorge-com/170119/10 "2003-04-22T23:52:47Z")
I looked at the site after finding a WG bill. It seemed like an address farm, which would generate junk mail. I didn’t tell 'em anything.