heatherkw Posted November 23, 2009 Posted November 23, 2009 My 15y.o. DD wants only cash for Chistmas. It makes me feel awful! Does anybody have any ideas for wrapping cash? Thats the only way I can stand the idea of cash is if she has things to unwrap!
Mikesgirl Posted November 23, 2009 Posted November 23, 2009 I have seen things that you put the cash in and in order to get it out they have to get the ball in a maze to get to the end.. I seen some at walmart this weekend for giftcards but I didnt stop to notice if they were for cash too...
triplej2002 Posted November 23, 2009 Posted November 23, 2009 A few years ago I gave my brother about $20. What I did was use a large box and LOTS of tissue or newspaper. Then I put a $1.00 bill in one of those miniature sized envelopes. The envelopes were scattered in all the tissue paper in the box, so it took him a while to find all the money. He enjoyed having to go thru it and it was amusing to everyone else.
AndreaInNC Posted November 23, 2009 Posted November 23, 2009 You can do like a scavenger hunt for it. Wrap the clues in different boxes.
vsa3janes Posted November 23, 2009 Posted November 23, 2009 Here are a few ideas I have used for giving cash;a) folded into shapes - little birds, a shirt, a dress (there are lots of free websites with patterns) put into two small bags, attached long ribbons, wrapped a cardboard gift wrap tube, poked one bag into each end of the tube, attached a note to the end of the ribbon that said "pull"c) glue 3/4 of the pages of the back section of a hardback book together. when dried cut out a whole from the center of the block of pages to make a cubby hole. Bought gold dollars at the bank and filled the hole with the dollars. Put them in a drawstring bag first. Tied a ribbon around the book to keep it closed. d) put money in a little box and progressed to larger boxes, wrapping each boxe) put money in a box, put inside a bag filled with popcorn, the gift looked like a bag of popcorn.f) there is a thread in this holiday section about placing gifts in soda bottles - this would be a cute way to give money with some candy or little gifts tucked inside. http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=154578g) put the bills inside the pages of a favorite magazine, as the pages are flipped through the money falls out.h) put the bills in a variety of film holders (those little plastic containers 35mm film comes in) wrap them in gift bags and boxes
nikkilugi Posted November 23, 2009 Posted November 23, 2009 My 15y.o. DD wants only cash for Chistmas. It makes me feel awful! Does anybody have any ideas for wrapping cash? Thats the only way I can stand the idea of cash is if she has things to unwrap!I feel the same way but I remember when I was younger and got cash from my parents - they put $200 in a plastic ball ornament and hung it on the tree for us and I LOVED it. I didn't care about unwrapping presents - I was so happy to get the cash, lol. Really I still remember that Christmas because it was the first that I got cash and it was AWESOME! Anyway my point is that honestly I think the wrapping means a lot more to you than her. I plan on wrapping some cash in boxes for my sons.
dalgal101 Posted November 23, 2009 Posted November 23, 2009 My mom drilled out the center of an orange and then rolled up money and put in a straw and stuck it in the middle of the orange and placed the ends with the rine back in there. She put the orange in our stocking (we always got fruit in the toe of the stocking) and of course we just sat it aside. She had to tell us to check out our fruit several times before we realized it was in there.
mgmckny Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 I froze 20.00 in quarters many years ago, my older brother kept saying he wanted cold hard cash. Took me a few days to get them all suspended in a tupperware container. Wrapped it Christmas Eve! It still was melting late Christmas night!
e_kristin2003 Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 Miles Kimball has the pinball machine cash holder, a cash shirt, or a personalized Reindeer cash pouch. http://search.mileskimball.com/search?p=Q&w=cash%20holder
Karmarose Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 My mother has done an ornament with the cash inside.
morganraine Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 flashlight where the batteries go,umbrella so when he opens it the dollars come out on little strings where the tynes are,gingerbread house, money tree
morganraine Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 walnuts a lady I know would crack them put money in them and glue them back together
sorayay Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 Last year I had a nephew who only wanted cash. I took 50 one dollar bills, some double sided removable tape (You have to buy the removable kind) and then taped the dollars together end to end and rolled it into a huge roll. Then I put the roll inside the cardboard part of a roll of toilet paper and wrapped up the toilet paper. It was a huge running joke that he had a "poopy" gift that year! It took him a long time to separate the bills and then his wallet was bulging, but it made for a lot of laughs. If your family isn't into potty humor, you can do the same thing with a Kleenex box (the dollars pull out) or Maybe even one of those clorox/lysol wipes boxes... And when I was in high school my best friend got one of those lifesavers books. Her parents had slipped the cash between the roll and the wrapper. They had to search the rolls really carefully before they found it, but it was a delightful surprise.
arf110106 Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 I feel the same way but I remember when I was younger and got cash from my parents - they put $200 in a plastic ball ornament and hung it on the tree for us and I LOVED it. I didn't care about unwrapping presents - I was so happy to get the cash, lol. Really I still remember that Christmas because it was the first that I got cash and it was AWESOME! Anyway my point is that honestly I think the wrapping means a lot more to you than her. I plan on wrapping some cash in boxes for my sons.I totally agree with the what's in bold. I'm sure she wouldn't be upset if she didn't have anything to unwrap on Christmas day, just seeing the cash will probably make her grin from ear to ear. I understand how money can feel impersonal, but what can you do when they get this age? I'd be more upset if a small child didn't have a gift to unwrap than a teen IMO.
tjredsox4 Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 Two years ago I took $1 in quarters and wrapped with rubber bands then continued to make a rubber band ball. Every few layers I put $1 or $5 bill and kept adding rubber bands. My daugter and stepdaughter had to unwrap ball to get to money. They loved the idea. My nephew keeps asking me for one because he wants to play with the rubber band ball and he is 10.
nick_jenni_jocelyn Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 I gave each my niece and nephew $50 for their bday. my nephew was getting a Wii from his parents, so i got him the backpack to put it in, so he could take it over to friends house. I taped together 50 $1 bills, end to end and had a littile piece poking out the top. so when he opened it, he just kept pulling out the money, lol. I did the same concept with my niece except i used a purse shaped like a pomeranian, like the dog she has now.
mysonruns Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 I can't do the cash thing for Christmas - as my boys get older I understand that sometimes there are things that they need - like my niece is getting tires from sister for Christmas - but they are going out on a Saturday and buying them,a nd then having lunch.... I just can't hand a teenager cash like a reward for Christmas - thats not what the holiday is about... Just my opinion! Although the wrapping ideas are awesome, you people are so creative!!
debbiedana Posted November 25, 2009 Posted November 25, 2009 I told my nephew he was getting a history lesson... he grimaced... As he opened the big box I told him that more specifically, it was about the dead presidents... bigger grimace... Then he pulled out a mini xmas tree and the random dollar bills were folded to see the president's face, and paper clipped like ornaments all over the tree. Very funny, we all got a laugh out of his history lesson.
Rockfordmom Posted November 25, 2009 Posted November 25, 2009 there was a post, maybe last year this time, where someone posted a link to a website that had money folding directions with all kinds of cool things that you could fold money into, do a search but it was an old post, I'll try to look for it later if you can't find it
AndreaInNC Posted November 25, 2009 Posted November 25, 2009 you can also put it in the glove compartment in that new car that he's gonna get!
vsa3janes Posted November 25, 2009 Posted November 25, 2009 I wrapped my nephews (19 yr old) bday gift last night. I asked my local Chinese restaurant for an empty take out box. With my dinner I received chopsticks, fortune cookies and a 2010 calendar. I am putting part of the money/bills in the bottom of the box, covering it with shredded newspaper, placing the cookies on top of that. Another part of the money will go in with one of the cookies then I will tape the pkg shut, another bill will go in the tube with the chop sticks and finally bills will fall out of the calendar when he unrolls it. Total amount of gift $25, total cost of "gift wrap" zero.
Rockfordmom Posted November 25, 2009 Posted November 25, 2009 The link is in post #3 of this thread, it's in a graduation gift threadhttp://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=137877&highlight=folding+bills
sodgoddess Posted November 26, 2009 Posted November 26, 2009 I took 1 dollar bills and strait pinned them to pj bottoms so they looked like all money and Je got new pj bottoms too then I took 2 dollar bills and did same on a pair of Christmas boxers
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