drinkyourjuice: Nickel Party 2k11 Recap For those who don’t know, Phil is doing a project called 5 Dollar Friendship Stimulus where he’ll send five American dollars to people who tweet him their ideas re: how they’d spend the money with their friends. Lindsey thought of a penny party (500 pennies, 5 friends, no two pennies spent the same way), and it got approved — but we quickly realized pennies might not be logistically friendly in terms of finding 500 different uses. So we switched it to a nickel party and then spent Saturday going nuts in lower Manhattan. Some things nickels were spent on: copies from a Xerox machine Shaq Fu da Return two (2) apple pies five (5) of those twisting drum things a coffee random donations (inside of cups at a flatware display, next to some dog poop, on the ledge of a public chalk board, on someone’s motorcycle seat, Ronald McDonald House, etc.) Things we tried to spend nickels on and have on video: a psychic reading I’m sure there are things that I’m missing, but the point is that it took up an entire afternoon and I had more fun than I ever should have had just walking around in the cold trying to spend nickels. So if you are the kind of person who likes to set arbitrary limits for yourself and then try to operate within them out of a sense of fun and adventure, A+, would recommend 5 Dollar Friendship Stimulus, etc. etc. Also don’t do a nickel party; it’s hard and there are junkies in a lot of the places where you can spend nickels (one talked to me while I played Bop It at the flea market and now we’re dating). When we put the $5 Friendship Stimulus together, this is exactly what we were trying to make happen.  These guys are the BEST!

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Nickel Party 2k11 Recap

For those who don’t know, Phil is doing a project called 5 Dollar Friendship Stimulus where he’ll send five American dollars to people who tweet him their ideas re: how they’d spend the money with their friends.

Lindsey thought of a penny party (500 pennies, 5 friends, no two pennies spent the same way), and it got approved — but we quickly realized pennies might not be logistically friendly in terms of finding 500 different uses. So we switched it to a nickel party and then spent Saturday going nuts in lower Manhattan.

Some things nickels were spent on:

  • copies from a Xerox machine
  • Shaq Fu da Return
  • two (2) apple pies
  • five (5) of those twisting drum things
  • a coffee
  • random donations (inside of cups at a flatware display, next to some dog poop, on the ledge of a public chalk board, on someone’s motorcycle seat, Ronald McDonald House, etc.)

Things we tried to spend nickels on and have on video:

  • a psychic reading

I’m sure there are things that I’m missing, but the point is that it took up an entire afternoon and I had more fun than I ever should have had just walking around in the cold trying to spend nickels.

So if you are the kind of person who likes to set arbitrary limits for yourself and then try to operate within them out of a sense of fun and adventure, A+, would recommend 5 Dollar Friendship Stimulus, etc. etc.

Also don’t do a nickel party; it’s hard and there are junkies in a lot of the places where you can spend nickels (one talked to me while I played Bop It at the flea market and now we’re dating).

When we put the $5 Friendship Stimulus together, this is exactly what we were trying to make happen.  These guys are the BEST!

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  1. fivedollarstimulus reblogged this from drinkyourjuice and added:
    When we put the $5...together, this is exactly what...make...
  2. thesamedevice reblogged this from bobbyfinger and added:
    I feel like we should do this on Whyte, except make it $10 so we can blow $6 on cheap wine.
  3. bobbyfinger reblogged this from drinkyourjuice and added:
    fact that I look like...tall, walking, talking, man version
  4. scout said: I FORGOT WILL WAS THERE YAY