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Hysterical!

My grandparents have had these sitting next to their fireplace since I was a kid, but they've never used them. I always thought they were funny!

Something about this makes me cringe... maybe its because im broke, or that there are people sleeping in the streets and we find it comical to burn "money, its a bit of a Metaphor for america... no?

duh, it's ironic... Looks like a good and easy DIY project too!

I keep a tin full of charcoal that has been soaked in ethanol, best to collect it the morning after an evening fire, to ensure that it is very dry and "active".

Charcoal has a huge surface area available for storage of fuel, it is like a green form of nanotech energy storage. The latest ideas in hydrogen storage are just more controlled forms of the same idea.

this is disgusting.

my grandmother had these too! she just kept them around the house because she had some sort of understanding of the law of attraction, ages before the Secret came out. she told me that it was good to keep money lying around, to attract money. and it worked for her. I never knew that these were made for fireplaces, though. she didn't have one.

very spencer's gifts. what's next "best of three from lillian vernon"?

i understand the irony here... using real money to buy and burn fake money, which is, in fact, burning real money as so many free and more attractive ways of starting fires exist.

it is not the kind of irony i revel in.

please...please...fewer cheesy posts for postings sake. i come for the design, the new products and materials, the entry into peoples homes and design minds...not tacky materialism.

I'd be afraid that I didn't know and put my hand in the fire! LOL I don't know how someone can say this is disgusting, it's not like it looks like doody.