Is a 2 dollar Bill good luck or bad luck?

Answer 1

/* Two dollar bills are rare, so I have one myself. Unfortunately, I have the worst of luck. Everything goes wrong.

It depends on if you believe in luck. If you do, then yes they are. */

FACTS rather than speculation:

Modern US $2 bills are uncommon but they're not rare. Several hundred million have been printed over the last 15 years or so, but that's only about 1% of the enormous number of other denominations that have been printed during the same time period.

Remember, they're nothing but pieces of paper and ink, so there is nothing "lucky" or "unlucky" about them, any more than there's something lucky about a stamp or newspaper.

The $2 bill is not commonly used in the US for a number of rather foolish reasons. The denomination was very popular in the late 19th century among gamblers because $2 was the most common amount bet on horse races and for, uh, "services" in brothels. As a result the denomination developed a reputation of being used only by low-lifes and criminals. In that puritanical age, other people refused to accept the bills because the considered them to be "contaminated" by their use in illicit activities. As a result they became uncommon in ordinary commerce.

Low use today is a kind of circular problem. Because 2s are seen infrequently people who do get them in change tend to hold them as "curiosities" instead of returning them to circulation. That makes them even less common so still more disappear into drawers and safe deposit boxes. In addition, their low circulation means that cash drawers don't have slots for 2s and many vending machines aren't programmed to read them, giving people still more reasons not to use them and again making their use even less frequent.

Answer 2

it is lucky. many people go buy lottery tickets and take them in their hands and win some money some times . or go to the casino or anything else that might be a way t have money or luck. some people say you should NEVER sell or give someone a 2-dollar bill that going to lead you to some very BAD luck.

Hardlythe case ...What we mostly call "luck" is happenstance, like crossing a street and narrowly avoiding a car that ran the stop sign.

Objects, whether they be scarves or rabbits or $2 bills, aren't inherently lucky or unlucky. For one thing all $1 and $2 bills are printed by exactly the same process on exactly the same kind of paper so there's no rational, reasonable way they could be different.

The real story is a sort of urban legend that grew up in the late 19th century. After the Civil War $2 bills circulated regularly, but they were especially popular at race tracks where $2 was the standard bet, and in brothels where $2 paid for, uh, "services rendered" in those pre-inflation days.

By the 1880s and 1890s people in what was called "polite society" began to reject the bills because it was assumed that if you had one you patronized those activities. In the south that rejection merged with some of the religious beliefs of the time to create the myth that the bills themselves somehow became tainted by where they had been spent. That belief was abetted by the slang name "deuce" which was also a euphemism for "the devil". For many years people actually tore the corners off $2 bills in a peculiar effort to release the "evil" that they'd somehow picked up!

By the first half of the 20th century the worst of those superstitions had morphed into a more generic belief that $2 bills were bad luck. In many cases people had no idea where the original misconceptions came from; they "just knew" that there was something "wrong" with the bills.

In reality the bills are no more lucky or unlucky than a 4-leaf clover. It's certainly something special to find one among thousands of 3-leaf clovers just like it's unusual to find a $2 bill in circulation today, but holding onto either one isn't likely to change your life.

Answer 3

That depends on whether you found it, or lost it.

Well, not exactly.

There's no such thing as a curse or a charm on a bill. They're just ink and paper; $2 bills are printed using the same process as $1 bills and they're not associated with any superstitions.

The reason $2 bills have strange legends associated with them is that the denomination was commonly used in the late 19th century to place horse-racing bets and for, uh, "services" provided at brothels in those pre-inflation days. That led to some more genteel people being reluctant to spend $2 bills out of fear that someone would think they'd been gambling or womanizing.

Worse yet, in some parts of the country an entire mythology developed that the bills themselves had somehow become "tainted" or "cursed" by their use in illicit activities. As late as the 1950s you could occasionally find $2 bills with one corner torn off in the belief that it would "let the evil drain out"!

Unfortunately these myths led to the denomination essentially disappearing from commerce. Even though they're printed as needed and there are a couple of hundred million of them extant, that's only about 1% of the total number of bills in use. That lack of familiarity has itself led to a whole new set of myths about the bill such as:

(1) The Treasury has discontinued them. False: as of this writing new $2 bills were printed in 2013.

(2) The denomination has been withdrawn. False: see (1)

(3) They're not real American money. False: that's just lack of information

(4) You should keep any that you find because they're rare. False: they're uncommon, but hardly rare.

Answer 4

yes retarder that's why they make them