Gerber bucks!

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing - USATODAY.com

small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money.
Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses.

The systems generally work like this: Businesses and individuals form a network to print currency. Shoppers buy it at a discount — say, 95 cents for $1 value — and spend the full value at stores that accept the currency.

Workers with dwindling wages are paying for groceries, yoga classes and fuel with Detroit Cheers, Ithaca Hours in New York, Plenty in North Carolina or BerkShares in Massachusetts.

Ed Collom, a University of Southern Maine sociologist who has studied local currencies, says they encourage people to buy locally. Merchants, hurting because customers have cut back on spending, benefit as consumers spend the local cash.

[kwillia]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing - USATODAY.com

Jazz and I have come to the conclusion your Gerber bucks are most likely all a figment of our imagination... we'll stick with American Express... you know... plastic...

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by kwillia

Jazz and I have come to the conclusion your Gerber bucks are most likely all a figment of our imagination... we'll stick with American Express... you know... plastic...

Well, aren't you pleased with yourself.

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by kwillia

Jazz and I have come to the conclusion your Gerber bucks are most likely all a figment of our imagination... we'll stick with American Express... you know... plastic...

not to mention that if you buy plastic flowers with your plastic money, the flowers will stay looking good,, um, stay looking like the day you bought them for years to come.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by bcp

not to mention that if you buy plastic flowers with your plastic money, the flowers will stay looking good,, um, stay looking like the day you bought them for years to come.

Sounds like a mental illness to me. Ha.

[jazz lady (Premo)]

Originally Posted by kwillia

Jazz and I have come to the conclusion your Gerber bucks are most likely all a figment of our imagination... we'll stick with American Express... you know... plastic...

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

Well, aren't you pleased with yourself.

I'm pretty pleased with her, too.