Got my second "Where's George?' dollar. Ever get one? Know what I am mean?

It is illegal to deface or render useless any dollar bill including scribbling over the face of George and the writing already on the bill, ripping and/or cutting to the point where it can no longer be used. So as long as you write on it and it can still be used as legal tender, it's fine.There is a link on the website that goes to a government site with the actual, exact, legal wording. We use the white space and some people actually underline or circle the number and series that are to be input into the computer, so we help people find what they need on the bill. I've seen a lot of bills where people used the white space on them to do math and I've seen 9-11, never forget stamps in the white space, too. Most people are very careful to only use white space and not interfere with people being able to ID the bills. One of the great discussions on their forum was whether vending machines were a good or bad place to put a wheresgeorge. Turns out some vending machine workers are "georgers" and will input georges before depositing them for their company and some are not. So if a wheres george still works in a vending machine and the banks take Georges afterward, we're fine.

This is fascinating!

This is so interesting. I heard somewhere that it is actually illegal to write on money and yet people are constantly doing it. I see bills with stuff written on them periodically but never heard of anything like this before.

The number of responses may not work too well for a class project, for instance, one guy sent out $2,000 dollars and had less than $1,000 in "hits" or people indicating they got the bill online before sending it on. So 50% or less of a class might not get anything to track. An atypical class, only one or two kids might get anything or none could get anything back. Of course a really atypical one, all but one or two kids might get something back. So if every dollar had someone typing into their computers every now and then, it would be great, but some don't even get a single one. At that rate, you'd have to have every child send out a lot of dollars to be sure each one had at least one that people tracked at least a few times. If a teacher could be sure that it would work out, it would be a great class project. Kids could learn more about different states, countries,places where people spend $, the average distance a dollar moves (mine was at 5 miles a day, the top one was at 3.8 miles per day and it went from Ohio, down around the the south, then up the midwest and east to Someplace close to Canada, made a C backward. Some of the profiles of the people who send the dollars on, some of them are really funny, at least entertaining reading of the top profiles.

I was thinking maybe of a class sending out one dollar, and publicizing it in the local papers to start it off, so they would at least get some responses as it got spent.

Too bad I am not into that hobby. One of my clients received one as change at a fireworks stand a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah, now more people can do it. If you don't have a computer, you would have to make an appointment at a library or go to a friend's house to do it.