How to give money in an original way?

Of all the variety of gift options that are given for one reason or another, perhaps money is the most common solution. At the same time, the person presenting the money is often afraid that he will be considered devoid of imagination or too banal, therefore it is desirable to hand over the money in some kind of creative way. While most people are looking for a characteristic postcard in the form of an envelope or purse, we will consider how to approach this situation in an original way.

The reasons why people so often find it necessary to donate money lie on the surface. This option, of course, is not for those who want to give something truly original, but it is universal, and you will never miss the choice, because the present will be chosen by the hero of the occasion. This decision is especially true if you are on a holiday with a person whose hobbies and interests you know not so much. This often happens with the birthdays of colleagues with whom you do not communicate after hours. However, even close friendships do not always allow you to come up with a good creative gift if your friend has achieved a lot in life and as a whole already has everything that he needs.

A completely separate type of celebration is the wedding. In this case, there are usually a lot of guests, as well as gifts from them, and this is good, because a young family, most likely, does not yet own many things even from among the necessities, and in many respects relies specifically on guest presentations. Here, however, another risk arises - young people need everything, therefore it is not difficult to choose a gift, but it can always turn out that you and someone else from among the guests thought in the same direction and bought completely or partially duplicated things. This, of course, is a very stupid situation, because at weddings money is almost always given - even if the newlyweds themselves decide how to spend it, maybe it will not be something tangible at all.

The main problem is that no matter how justified your choice in favor of money, such a gift is still perceived as too banal and somewhat boring. He will not have a chance to be remembered, especially at a wedding, where dozens of ordinary envelopes with money are handed to a couple - as a result, those who donate usually don’t even remember how much they gave. It turns out that a share of your merit will be in any of those things that you bought for donated funds, but there will be no memory of this.

Not so long ago, the upper limit of creativity was to put a gift not just in an envelope, but in a special postcard, on which expensive foreign banknotes or other synonyms of wealth and wealth were usually printed. This, of course, is a little more interesting than a simple mail envelope, but in recent years people have thoroughly got used to it, and today such an accessory cannot be considered a limit of imagination and creativity. Modern printing technologies and specialized gift shops offer much more interesting ideas, and do not forget that sometimes you yourself can come up with something really unique.

In most cases, when planning to give money, people mean that it will be the only gift, and they will not give anything else, except perhaps some card and flowers. This approach is not entirely correct, because often you know that a person really needs something, but the cost of a suitable presentation clearly does not reach the one that is adequate to the scale of the occasion and the level of your relationship. In this case, the “main gift” involves some kind of creative design that allows you to add money to it.

This is not always obvious right away - such a present with a joke will be suitable in a company where no one is deprived of a certain sense of humor, and the one who is gifted will not be offended very much because, in his opinion, the gift is too cheap. In other cases, even the “main” present itself can be perceived as not bad and very worthy, and an additional cash gift, which will be revealed later, will surprise the birthday boy even if he didn’t expect such and such.

Even if you don’t give anything but money, the gift itself may have a more creative form than the banal transfer of bills from hand to hand - here's a look at how it might look.

This cinematic image is very popular as an object of dreams - it is assumed that enough money will fit into such a capacity to provide any, even bold dreams of the one who owns them. You must admit that a considerable amount can be put in the same envelope, but for some reason no one dreams of an envelope with currency, and the desire to have a whole bag must have been said out loud by everyone.

Well, dreams come true - you can buy a souvenir copy or sew it yourself from burlap, and then draw on it the same dollar symbol.Of course, the size of such a container will not be what everyone dreams of, and bills are usually folded into it folded into a tube to add volume, which reduces the total nominal value per unit volume.

It is generally accepted that large amounts should not be kept at home, "under the pillow" - for such purposes, banking institutions are used where finances are not only reliably protected from theft, but can also be "overgrown" with interest during storage. In recent years, opening a real bank account with a card has become a popular gift for teens, which teaches the young man how to plan the budget and the responsibility for maintaining it, but you won’t be surprised by an adult — he’s probably changed a few of these cards.

It remains to push not on the literal meaning, but not figurative - without showing the gift, tell the person that you give him money in the bank. The first thought of the hero of the occasion will be to present some truly impressive amount, and he, of course, will not believe you - here you will hand him the bank in which the currency was packed!

This gift also belongs to the category of those that can be handed to anyone and for any reason, although it will be somehow too modest for a loved one on his anniversary. But this is a chic way to play a man who at the first moment can not cope with emotions and mimic that he does not understand why you were so greedy on such a day.

Naturally, complete with such a present, you must immediately present a card, which states that the gift is not simple, but with a secret. If the hero of the occasion is not aware of reading the wishes right away, give him a hint to do this - and you will witness a wonderful transformation of a man who, at last, realized that no one was going to neglect his holiday.

You can often see a similar approach in old foreign films, only there they don’t give money for a birthday or a wedding in this way, but they call you married by hiding the ring in the dessert. The same can be done in our case, especially if the celebrated holiday is a birthday, for which the cake can be a very appropriate addition. Of course, it will be a little strange if you came to visit a name day, where you probably already have such a dessert, with your own cake, because somehow hint that the owners do not need to buy it.

At the same time, you can either hint that the main gift will be a little later, or pretend to be a forgetful person who for some reason hesitated with delivery. Most likely, such a surprise cake will have to be specially ordered or baked on your own, because you are unlikely to be able to invest in a finished copy. But in any case, you must make sure that the money is not stained with cream and is definitely not spoiled when cutting the dessert.

Children can also be given finances, but if the child is still small and does not understand the importance of money too much, he will not be impressed. In the end, a typical children's holiday is bright colors and the atmosphere of a miracle, and here you are with your boring gray envelope and unclear prospects of spending money, because your parents will probably immediately pick up such a gift, even if they then spend the entire amount on the child. Therefore, you should come up with something more interesting, and here are a few options.

Kids love bright balloons, they are present in abundance at most children's parties. So you come with them, only in a somewhat unusual performance. One of the balls before inflation can be filled with relatively small banknotes (for visibility of a large number), as well as many notes with wishes. In any case, the child will be interested in reading all these wishes, and besides, he will certainly be impressed not so much with the amount as the number of notes and the impressiveness of the bundle of money that he can collect.

A slightly more interesting option for those children who love adventure and various tasks. You will need to find an opaque ball through which its contents will not be visible, as well as a bright box in which this balloon will fit just when inflated. The bottom of the box is usually strewn with beautiful colored tinsel - the task of creating a truly festive atmosphere is assigned to it. The balloon is inflated and filled with money as described above, after which it is tied up and provided with a felt-tip inscription like “Pop me!”. The ball is packed in a box, and on it they also write a kind of similar instruction, for example, "Open me." Thus, the gift, although not for long, but keeps the intrigue that a curious baby will like.

In this case, you will also need balls, only now they need a lot more. It is good if all of them are also opaque, since each of them will be considered a separate gift. In each copy, put bills of different denominations and one candy, preferably also different. After that, you need to buy or sew on your own a spacious bag in which all these balls with surprises would fit. Ideally, it would not hurt to carry out an inscription from sequins on the surface of the bag, stating that this is just a bag of gifts - this will add a present to magic.

You can not “reinvent the wheel” and do nothing yourself if you opt for a soft toy, whose design provides for a pocket. It can be, for example, a kangaroo, or just this or that character dressed in clothes equipped with real pockets. Money, respectively, needs to be hidden in this pocket, but the child should hint that the gift presented is equipped with an additional secret box.

In terms of popularity and frequency of delivery, flowers constitute a serious competition for money - they are usually not considered a separate gift, but they are an indispensable attribute of any women's holiday, and sometimes men's too. If you know that a bouquet would be an appropriate gift for the upcoming festival, you can beat this and give the representative of the fair sex real home-made flowers, where instead of petals there will be money!

Of course, for such a congratulation it would be nice to have at least a little origami skills, but in general the task is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. It is advisable to first stock up with the necessary supplies, the quantity and quality of which depend on what result should be obtained. We will consider how to wrap money in the form of flowers using the example of a rose, which will turn out in the end.After a good search, you can find more complex and plausible samples of paper flowers, but we will focus on a simple sample for beginners, which also requires only one bill for each flower. And here is a detailed instruction.

• Choose a neat and clean bill, without dents or damages, preferably a new one, from the bank, and lay it in front of you on a flat surface.
• Bend the corner at the top left to the bottom edge, and then do the reverse procedure with the corner below the left.
• Turn the former right side of the bill so that it partially overlaps the top of the resulting triangle.
• The above manipulations led to the fact that on the surface of the banknote kinks formed in the necessary places, which we needed, so now we unfold all the folds, and fold the money in half so that we get a square.
• After that, the resulting figure is folded in both directions - both diagonally and in a straight line. In the end, you should get a greatly reduced multi-layer figure.
• On both sides of the bill, slightly bend the flaps of the paper where it does not form a full edge and does not attach to the rest of the bill.
• After this, the most difficult begins - the previous bends from the lower, inner layers of the folded banknote, you also need to bend to the center, so that as a result of the folds you get four.
• Place the resulting figure vertically, and bend the upper parts on each side down, after which you can open the almost finished rose - this will allow you to do the same procedure from the sides, on a three-dimensional model.
• The result should be a typical floral "cup", but the petals are still unnaturally straight - they are somewhat turned outward, screwed with an ordinary toothpick.
• On this, the rose as a whole is ready, but it does not look very plausible. To correct such an annoying misunderstanding, you just need to take one more such bill and do all the above steps with it, then just insert one rose into another. The result is a multi-layer structure of "petals", which already really resembles a real flower.

If you are doing well, and indeed you are a lover of such creativity, you can go even further and give the “colors” maximum credibility. As the basis for the "stem" is usually used a metal wire or knitting needle, which can be wrapped either simply with green paper, or with the same bills. Particularly creative donors go even further, and neat leaflets are also cut out of colored paper, which are then attached to the stem with glue or tape.

Even the above methods of presenting money are relatively popular, since such an approach to registration has been known for more than a year and has already become boring. At the same time, you can arrange a money present even more spectacularly and unusual, if you approach the task creatively and taking into account some hobbies of the person presented. Please note that some of the options below can theoretically offend a person, as they are jokes for an amateur.

A box of good birthday sweets is a very good solution as a complement to the main gift and flowers, especially if the hero of the occasion is a sweet tooth. At the same time, the box itself will prove to be very valuable if you carefully open it in advance and remove all the candies from there, and instead, place a neatly folded bill or coin in each place. The middle box is capable of holding 12-20 candies, respectively, the same amount of banknotes and coins you have to prepare.

It so happened that in our country money in an informal setting is often called “cabbage” - apparently, the American currency reminded someone of the leaves of this garden plant, especially if there are a lot of banknotes and they are not folded very carefully. If your friend often uses the word "cabbage" in that sense, you can play it out pretty well by saying that you haven’t come up with anything better than giving him cabbage. At this moment, the hero of the occasion will probably think about money, and then you will remove and lay out on the table the head of ordinary garden cabbage.

Another curious way to surprise the hero of the occasion is to give him an ordinary broom. It’s unlikely that you will be able to hide banknotes in its bristles, therefore it is easier to wrap several individual banknotes with bristles. Of course, you shouldn’t open the whole trick right away - loudly declare that you decided to give a broom as a present, because nothing better has come to mind. Show the unpacked broom to those who are incredulous, so that it is obvious that this is exactly what you are talking about - you can even begin to unpack it from the side of the handle. In the end, when the secret is revealed, wish the person presented that there is always as much money as possible in his home, and that when sweeping they even cling to a broom.

Another interesting option is well suited for those people who do not consider themselves to be perfectly happy people, who dream a lot and see the main way to achieve their goals is to accumulate as much finance as possible. Having come to the celebration, declare that you brought an unusual gift - this is a vaccine that will allow all the dreams of the culprit to come true. Such a statement alone will provoke a wave of interest in what is happening, and you can further increase the degree if you find somewhere a small black suitcase where you can pack a pre-prepared syringe with money.

This option is suitable for students, because many representatives of this class are experiencing temporary financial problems. If you are a student yourself, come to the celebration with a roll of toilet paper, referring to the fact that you simply did not have enough money for a cooler gift, but this is still a useful thing, it will be useful for the birthday man. Of course, not everything is so simple with a roll - inside you hid at least one denomination of a decent face value in advance.

To do this, you will have to open the paper, but this will only complement the coloring - we can say that you did not even buy this roll, but tore it from your heart. This is certainly a mocking gift option, but for a youth company, where everyone has a sense of humor, such a solution will definitely work.

An envelope card with the money depicted on it can also be a good joke if the creators approached it with style. Typically, on such postcards they print images of expensive notes, like five hundred dollars or euros, and inside there is a relatively small amount, which even up to five thousand rubles does not always reach.

You can try to go the opposite, and look for a postcard on which, for example, a modest one hundred rubles will be printed. Inside, of course, you will put a more significant amount, but the first impression of the gift will be somewhat disappointing.You can add pepper to the situation if it is a gift to a friend - then you can refer to the famous saying that it is better to have a hundred friends than a hundred rubles, but you, like real faithful comrades, supposedly decided to provide the birthday boy with both .

Such a design no longer attracts “fun” - it takes so many notes to make it that even when using small banknotes, the amount will still not be too modest. Such a present will be a great option from the team to their boss, who celebrates the anniversary. The hero of the occasion probably bought a real cake, and then they give him an impressive amount of money, and even in a creative performance.

Honestly, this is not so much a painting as an origami again, which still needs to be mastered, but the approach itself deserves attention. You can depict anything on the canvas - when choosing a plot, you can even build on what you have already mastered in the art of folding paper figures. Naturally, not the whole picture should be made exclusively from banknotes, so think over what details will be “monetary” and where to get the main background.

Do not strive to create a real masterpiece in the field of art, nevertheless you give money in order to be spent, because the integrity of the work will still be violated. But when choosing a frame, do not be especially greedy - it would not suit as an independent gift.

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