Down a Damn Twenty

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I like money. In fact, I love money. Not to the point I really collect it. In other words, I won't be at the flea market, where there are often many booths selling various currency and coins, but I do keep a couple of "rarer" things around. I have some dinars from the Central Bank of Kuwait my sister brought home after her six-month tour with the Air Force during Operation Iraqi Freedom, when she was in Kuwait and Iraq. I have a couple of 20 peso bills from Mexico I had left from when we were vacationing there. I have a series 1988 $10 bill, a 2003 and 1995 $5 bills, which I kept mainly because they are two older designs no longer being printed. I also have a 1953 $5 silver certificate my grandfather gave me some years back. I have a 2017 $2 bill and also one from 1976. I have an oddball $1 bill from, as it says, 1969, that had Washington rubbed out and an incomplete picture of Richard Nixon on it. That one I have never been able to figure out. Is it a joke? Real? Counterfeit? I did a lot of research at one point and came up completely blank. I also have a $1 bill I received back in change that shows it's from 1963 and is pretty good condition considering how old it is. None of these bills is really worth more than face value. But I like them anyway, and maybe one day I will pass them down. Someday they might be worth something. And just today I received an older style series 1993 $20 bill, from the ATM machine no less when I went to grab some cash today. I just couldn't resist holding onto it. So, it now sits in my envelope where I keep the other "unique" bills. In a way, I'm not out $20 in keeping it, but I am considering I won't be spending it. So, for all intents and purposes... I'm down a damn twenty. Do you have any "collectible" bills, or older currency you have gained and kept? If you got an older bill back in change would you keep it, or spend it? ***Pictures still not working.***