I have written earlier about the giving side of my experiments in gift economy (see here and here). This is still work in progress. In my most recent trip to Europe, where I led or co-led a retreat and several workshops, I used the following sequence to ask for money:
My last event in Europe was a daylong in London. One of the organizers put in some money to invite a professional filmmaker to film the event and create a video from one part of it. A smaller group than before gathered together. It was a bit of a stretch for me, because the format meant more lecture and less fun interaction than I am used to. We invited people to give money in the same way. I was entirely unsurprised that we collected less than we had asked for, maybe less than half of it. I was fine with it, too, because the success of the previous two events was so immense, both in terms of resources generated and in terms of connection and the nourishing experience of being so well held and supported, that I came into the money pile without any tension or expectation.
The special gift of this money pile, the smallest, fastest, and simplest of the three, was that, in some odd way, it felt the most based on generosity. No one pulled. All the money moved around through pushing. Everyone felt given to generously, because the reasoning of the mostly symbolic moves was so clear and heartfelt.
Just before the end, I noticed that the main organizer, although not specifically moving any money anywhere, was not fully settled. She was still considering pushing some money to BayNVC. In probing, it finally came to the foreground that she was concerned about sustainability at BayNVC, and she wanted to ensure that we were well supported to do the work. The result? I was able to receive the full gift of her care without any additional cent coming to us. It was extraordinary to notice the power of separating needs from actual money. It was also a moment of seeing that ultimately the needs that make the most sense to settle through money are material needs, not relational needs. Once again most of us were in tears, and several people said these few minutes cemented the learning from the whole day for them. One of the clear takeaways for me: patriarchal, capitalist habits interfere with life and relationships by allowing money to serve as a stand in for needs that can only be met for real through true relationships.
During last night's episode we see Saul's goons Huell (Lavell Crawford) and Kuby (Bill Burr) rolling around on the giant pile of money before placing it into giant barrels Walt takes into the desert to bury.
The more positive members of the reseller community have stopped calling it their death pile and started calling it their money pile. Injecting that kind of encouragement into your vocabulary can have a serious effect. The ladies at Consignment Chats take it one step farther by calling it their Money Mountain. They say that to remind themselves that mountains are climbable.
Companies like Haulsale and ThredUP give you the ability to ship clothing right from your own home. They do the work, and you get a portion of the profits. I can tell you from personal experience how nice it feels to watch your money pile be driven away by UPS.
Mini rewards are a great way to keep yourself going and the best part is, you get to pick them. Find whatever motivates you, and use it. Do you love thrifting? Why not set aside 20% of the profits you earn from anything currently in your money pile? The more you list, the more you get to spend!
A while back I remember seeing a money prop/set that had bills floating in the air like they had just been thrown, heaped up into a pile of loose bills and even allowed you to spread it out onto a bed or over a person but of course now I can't find it. Does anyone remember seeing anything like that or can tell me where to find something I like that? And preferably free or relatively low cost. I am trying to do a robbery scene and almost all of the money props are stacked neatly or are single bills. I do have the Polish and PW bank vault sets and they do have some scattered bills on the floor but I am looking for something with a greater volume of bills so that it looks very messy. Kind of like it would look if it had fallen out of a bag. Any help with this would be appreciated.
Thanks for your response. I do have that and am actually using part of it but I am looking fo something that shows money piles that are not so neat. Like a bunch of loose bills had been swept into a pile, and like if someone had scooped up a bunch of loose bills and tossed them into the air. Or like a pile os money ahd spilled to the floor.
If you can find a product that has something like scattered leaves or petals, and crucially the actually geometry of the pieces is rectangular (ie the leaf was created using a transparency map), then by changing the base texture and opacity you can make money flying in the air, or as a loose pile. I used an old RNDA product called "Rain of Petals" for the image below, but other products can be used.
@ Fred9803, where did you get the money textures? Crikey haven't seen a 500$ bill for decades. The Fed ceased printing bills larger than 100$ in 1945 and those in circulation were recalled in 1969, though many fell into the hands of collectors (the $500 and $1,000 notes are still considered legal tender but are worth far more than their face value, even for worn notes).
just asking as i have about 6 million sold and the money piles are big but not as big as ive seen. was just wondering how long its gonna take to get the biggest possible. and i really really want to change my decor BUT i dont want to loose the piles
The money on the floor caps at 20 mil. The cap is determined how much you have made from crate sales. The amount VISUALLY SEEN is determined by how much money you currently have. If your cap is only at 12 million for example, you will only see that amount even if you have 50 million in the bank.
In S5E8 of Breaking Bad, Skyler takes Walt to a storage locker and shows him the enormous pile of money he has earned. I spent some time trying to calculate the total amount. By my math, the pile is roughly 5000 stacks of 20s, 50s and 100s, but I'm having a hard time determining the ratio of each type of stack.
Bon Gart's answer is correct. The viewer is supposed to be overwhelmed by the size of the pile. By not revealing the amount it's left to the viewer's over-active imagination to guess. Even Skyler doesn't know how much is there, when asked by Walt she replies:
I have no earthly idea. I truly don't. I just stack it up, keep it dry, spray it for silverfish. There is more money here than what we could spend in ten lifetimes. I certainly can't launder it, not with 100 car washes.
A normal person (with non-drug related employment) will never see a pile like that. But here is a side by side comparison of Walt's pile (left) and an actual drug cartel's seized money pile (right) totally $205 million.
The point here is that you are shown a pile of money. It is meant to look like an overwhelming amount. You are not told the exact amount for multiple reasons. For one, it adds to the mystery and sense of "Wow"... aka That's a buttload of Money! For another, as long as you don't know exactly how much is there, money can always be pulled out of the pile to pay for something... providing a seemingly endless supply.
Once you know the amount in a pile (of money, or of ammunition, etc) you start to see the limits of that quantity. An example of how this works in reverse (and against the plot/characters in a movie), examine the Explosive Arrow Tips from Rambo II.
You are only shown one box during the montage where he loads up for the mission. You do see him cutting away equipment left and right when he is hung up on the plane, but when it comes time for him to start using the arrows, he fires off far more than just four. It is possible that he loaded up with more than four, and it is possible that he didn't lose all of them when he cut away the equipment, but the viewer is still left asking the question "Where did he get all those explosive tips? He only had four." If he had been shown a demonstration of how they worked, and a large stockpile of them before he loaded up, and we were left guessing as to how many there were, then we wouldn't have felt the need to disbelieve.
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"And with the Fed putting the money supply in a nosedive the likes that we haven't seen since 1933, Buffett is correctly anticipating that troubled economic waters are in the offing," the veteran economist and trader said.
The Berkshire boss will profitably put his dry powder to work once the economy slumps, Hanke said. "Don't forget that Buffett has made big bucks over the years by lending to and rescuing distressed financial institutions," he noted. "And while Buffett waits for the coming economic dislocations and stresses, he is being paid decent money."
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