Before anyone freaks about why it's shreaded, money actually expires. I don't know when or how long it takes to expire but it does. So at the national bureau of engraving and printing I'm Washington D.C (where they make the bills) they shread the money that expires and sells it. I always thought it was strange because you could buy a bottle of $200 shredded dollars for $250??? Anyways I know this because I went on a tour there and it was very interesting.
Ok- here's a better way to explain it, they constantly destroy money and shred it. They do it so that a dollar has the same value. If they were constantly printing money without destroying it there would so many dollars out there that they would lose their value. Imagine that every tree was full of diamonds instead of leaves Then no one would want diamonds since you could just walk outside and pick them up. Same goes for dollars of we didn't destroy them then they would lose their value.
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· 9 years ago
They also shred the ones that are falling apart (at least that's what I've heard)
Money expires when they change the look of the old one. Like now in Europe(at least in Finland) we got new 5€&10€ bills and the old ones are strating to cycle out and something like this happends, tho it takes years to change every bill.
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I have a bag of money shreds that my uncle bought for me. I stare at it sometimes to see if I can make out any of the money values. I think there's a shred of a $10 and that's the biggest amount I've seen ~ but I'd sure like to see how much money total is in that thing (not like it would be useful but at least it'd be interesting)
DONT YOU HAVE BILLS
JUST WHYYYYYYYYY