Money on TV

Was anyone up at 2 or 3 am? Were you watching tv? Because I was and I have to say that I have been noticing something lately. Late at night instead of good tv there is, of course, infomercials....annoying at best. But in the last year or so I have noticed that what actually happens is that different versions of the home shopping network take over normal daytime channels.

Ahhh the home shopping network. You never know what they will be selling (with only four minutes left before the item is gone forever never to be sold anywhere again!) It could be clothes - which always puzzled me because I honestly can not buy clothing without trying it on - or electronics, or whatever new make up and skin care line Susan Lucci is sponsoring these days....buy not anymore! No, now there is a new craze that seems to be taking over home shoppers everywhere---Money! That is right. I watched 2 hours of them selling various collections of money before finally falling asleep. (I do have a life-I promise!)

There were these exciting two dollar bills with red marks and blue marks and green marks that had thirteen cent stamps and postmarks on them. It was the wierdest thing....I just want to know who it was back in 1970 who put stamps on uncirculated two dollar bills, took them to the post office to get postmarked, and then kept them in their closet in mint condition for thirty years before turning hundreds of them over to the home shopping network to sell. For $300 dollars you got three of these stamped ones and six two dollar bills with stars on them with a few ones thrown in..........

And dimes! They were selling one pound of some sort of special dimes for $400! Is it just me, or does something not add up here?

Then they kept saying stuff about buying them and putting them in your closet for ten years and never touching them so they won't get scratched and they will be worth something. If I pay $400 for a pound of dimes they had better be worth something now-not ten years from now.

Tweet