Reminds me of the joke about the credit card being swiped…what? 
Why would stealing a credit card be relevant?
Ooooooooh, I get it!
Well, if you’re going to swipe a credit card, that’s one place to hide it.
A Biblical one. Salmon was the father of Boaz, who married Ruth.
This really shouldn’t be a problem. Almost every cash register I’ve seen is at least five slots wide, with the front row for coins and the back row for bills. Even as it is, only four denominations of bills are placed in the back row–$1, $5, $10 (maybe), and $20. Fifties and hundreds are placed underneath the plastic part of the drawer; the clerk has to lift it up when handling those denominations. So it would be simple to designate a spot in the drawer for dollar coins, particularly if the dollar bill were eliminated.
I was just trying to make a funny, but seriously what do people do in strip clubs that are in countries that don’t have $1 notes? Pay more? Throw little coin purses? Make it hail?
In the UK, the one pound note is still, to my knowledge, legal tender but only found very rarely and in Scotland.
The strip bars that I’ve been to charge an entrance fee. Generally they either overcharge for drinks (if you were to sit watching the dancers with no drink you’d be asked to buy one or leave), or, before every dance on stage, the dancer circulates the room with a pint glass and each patron puts a pound coin in (this is not optional and is explained to you on admittance). In addition you can pay for a “private” (varying degrees of privacy operate here) dance.
There have been several threads on the subject. Here’s one of the more recent ones.
I don’t know the answer but an easy solution would be to sell scrip for a dollar apiece. One dollar gets you a bill sized piece of paper that you can use.
The most obvious answer would be “pay more”, using the lowest denomination bill in circulation. There will probably be one that isn’t too out of line for this service. Otherwise, other posters seem to be suggesting solutions.
In the US, I suspect that creating (or resurrecting) a dollar coin and discontinuing the dollar bill would finally make us start circulating the $2 bill, in strip clubs and other places.
Presumably if we stopped production on $1 bills, it would defeat the purpose to step up production on $2 bills to compensate.
I like your idea the best I suppose, as long as they had enought that they didn’t “recycle” them constantly. I read the other linked thread and am slightly horrified to find out that in parts of Canada they actually throw coins at the woman, which while slightly hysterical in concept is actually kind of mean.
They wouldn’t be any more recycled than the dollar bills that go through a typical strip club. When you get change for a twenty, where do you think that dollar bill was ten minutes earlier?
I’d bet actual bills in circulation are just as groady–you just don’t have anything drawing your mind to where they’ve been.
Oh I’m fully aware how filthy money is, but paper could start to degrade quickly and get even more disgusting.
On the plus side I’ll bet that the scrip that they’d come up with would be hilarious.
If you can find some of the old brothel tokens, or even images of the tokens, yes, they’re pretty funny. Some of them are good only for specific acts, while others are good for a period of time.
I’ve never been to a strip club, so I am ignorant in the ways of the customs there. I’ve seen them depicted in movies and in comic books (Gaiman’s Sandman has a character who worked in one), but that’s not the same as real life experience. I don’t know whether I’m curious enough about this subject to go to one.
Not counting bills to stuff into strippers’ g-strings, you would presumably need about half as many $2 bills in circulation to replace the same amount of cash in $1 bills.
… and each $2 bill would probably last longer in circulation than the current $1 bill.
I need to find some of these. All I have are some wooden nickels good for a free drink at the Chicken Ranch, a brothel outside of Vegas.