Inflation has made it hard to buy much with a buck these days.
$1 pizza has disappeared. Dollar stores aren’t dollar stores anymore.
So wouldn’t it make more sense to start paying with $2 bills instead?
“If you had a $2 bill, perfect,” said Heather McCabe, a writer and $2 bill evangelist who runs the blog Two Buckaroo chronicling her spending with twos and other people’s reactions. “It’s a very useful thing to pay for a small amount.”
Yet the $2 note is the unloved child of paper currency.
It’s considered a curiosity to some and scorned by others in the United States. The myths around the $2 bill — nicknamed “Tom” by fans because it features Thomas Jefferson’s portrait on the front — are endless. Many Americans think $2 bills are rare, are not printed anymore or have gone out of circulation.
