How to donate money in an original way?

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

The reasons why people so often consider it necessary to give money, lie on the surface. This option, of course, is not for those who want to give something truly original, but it’s universal, and you will never miss the choice, because the hero of the occasion will choose the present for himself. Such a decision is especially important if you come to a person for a holiday, whose hobbies and interests you know not so much. This often happens with the birthdays of colleagues with whom you do not communicate during off-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 in general already has everything he needs.

A completely separate type of celebration is wedding. In this case, guests, as well as gifts from them, are usually very numerous, and this is good, since the young family most likely does not own many things even from the basic necessities, and in many respects rely on guest gifts. Here, however, there is another risk - the young need everything, so choosing a gift is not difficult, 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 — let the couple themselves decide how to spend it, maybe it will not be anything material at all.

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

Not so long ago, the upper limit of creativity was to put a gift not just in an envelope, but in a special card on which expensive foreign banknotes or other synonyms of wealth and consistency were usually printed. This, of course, is a little more interesting than a simple postal envelope, but in recent years, people have become thoroughly accustomed to this, and today such an accessory cannot be definitely considered the limit of imagination and creativity. Modern printing technology and specialty gift shops offer much more interesting ideas, and you should not forget that sometimes you yourself can come up with something truly unique.

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

This is not always immediately obvious - such a joke with a joke will suit the company, where no one is deprived of a certain sense of humor, and the bestowal will not be offended because of the gift, which is too cheap, in his opinion. In other cases, even the “main” gift in itself can be perceived as quite good and very worthy, and an additional cash gift, which will be discovered later, will allow the birthday man to be surprised at least by the fact that he certainly did not expect such a thing.

Even if you donate nothing but money, the gift itself may have a more creative form than the banal transfer of bills from hand to hand - so let's see how it may look.

This cinema image is very popular as an object of dreams - it is assumed that enough money will fit into such a capacity to ensure any, even the wildest dreams of the one who owns them. You must admit that you can put a significant amount in the same envelope, but for some reason no one dreams of an envelope with currency, and every person surely repeatedly said aloud the desire to have a bag.

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

It is considered that large sums should not be kept at home, “under the pillow” - banking institutions are used for such purposes, where finances are not only reliably protected from theft, but can also “accumulate” interest during storage. In recent years, a popular gift to teenagers has been the opening of a real bank account with a card, which teaches a young person how to plan a budget and be responsible for keeping it, but you won’t be surprised with an adult - he probably already changed a few of these cards.

It remains to press not on the literal value, but not on the figurative - without showing a gift, tell the person that you are giving him money in a bank. The first thought of the hero of the occasion will be the presentation of a certain truly impressive amount, and he, of course, will not believe you - here you will hand him the bank in which you packed the currency!

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

Naturally, complete with such a gift, you must immediately hand over a postcard where it is indicated that the gift is not simple, but with a secret. If the hero of the occasion doesn’t immediately read the wishes, give him a hint to do it - and witness the miraculous transfiguration of a person who finally realized that no one was going to neglect his holiday.

Such an approach can very often be seen in old foreign films, only there they don’t give money for a birthday or a wedding in this way, but they call to marry, hiding a ring in the dessert. Similarly, we can do in our case, especially if the holiday is a birthday, for which the cake can be a very appropriate addition. Of course, it will be a bit strange if you came to visit the birthday party, where you probably already have such a dessert, with your own cake, so somehow hint that the owners do not need to buy it.

In this case, you can both hint that the main gift will be a little later, and pretend to be a forgetful person who, for some reason, hesitated with the presentation. Most likely, such a surprise cake will have to be specially ordered or baked by yourself, because you can hardly invest finances in a finished copy. But in any case, you should make sure that the money does not get dirty with the cream and that they are definitely not spoiled when cutting dessert.

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

Kids love bright balloons, they are abundant at most children's parties. Here you come with them, only in a somewhat unusual performance. One of the balloons before inflation can be filled with relatively small banknotes (for the appearance of a large number), as well as many notes with wishes. In any case, it will be interesting for a child to read all these wishes, besides, he will certainly be impressed not so much by the amount as by the number of bills and the impressiveness of the bundle of money he can collect.

A little more interesting option for those children who love adventure and various tasks. It will be necessary to find an opaque ball through which its contents will not be visible, as well as a bright box in which this ball in an inflated state just fits. The bottom of the box is usually littered with beautiful colored tinsel - the task is to create a truly festive atmosphere. The ball is inflated and filled with money as described above, after which it is tied up and supplied with a felt-tip pen like “Burst me!”. The ball is packed in a box, and some similar instructions are written on it, for example, “Open me”. Thus, the gift, though not for long, keeps the intrigue that the curious baby will like.

In this case, you also need balls, but 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 stitch yourself a spacious bag that would fit all these balls with surprises. Ideally, it would not hurt to perform on the surface of the bag also an inscription from sequins, saying that this is exactly a bag of gifts - this will add to the gift of magic.

You can not "reinvent the wheel" and do nothing yourself if you opt for a soft toy, whose design provides for a pocket. This may be, for example, a kangaroo, or simply one or another character, dressed in clothes, equipped with real pockets. Money, accordingly, needs to be hidden in this pocket, but the child should hint that the gift being given is equipped with an additional secret.

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

Of course, for such congratulations it would be nice to have at least some small skills in 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 the result should be. We will consider how to wrap money in the form of flowers on the example of a rose, which will turn out at the end. By searching well, you can find more complex and believable patterns 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 and damage, preferably a new one, from the bank, and place it in front of you on a flat surface.
• In the upper left corner bend to the bottom edge, then do the reverse procedure with the lower left corner.
• Tuck the former right side of the bill so that it partially overlaps the top of the resulting triangle.
• The above manipulations have led to the fact that on the surface of the bill there are kinks in the necessary places, which we needed, because now we are folding all the folds, and we fold the money in half so that it turns out to be 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-layered figure.
• On both sides of the bill, bend the flaps of paper a little where it does not form a full-fledged tip and is not attached to the rest of the bill.
• After this, the most difficult begins - the previous bends from the lower, inner layers of the folded banknote, also need to be bent to the center, so that in the end there will be four folds.
• Place the resulting shape vertically, and bend the upper parts on each side downwards, then you can slightly 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 flower “cup”, but the petals are still unnaturally straight - they are somewhat wrapped outside, twirled with an ordinary toothpick.
• On this, the rose as a whole is ready, but its appearance will not be very likely. To correct such an annoying misunderstanding, you just need to take another of the same bill and do all the above steps with it, and then simply insert one rose into another.The result is a multi-layered structure of "petals", which already really resembles a real flower.

If you are good at it, and indeed you are a lover of such creativity, you can go even further and give the "flowers" maximum likelihood. As a basis for the "stem" is usually used a metal wire or a needle, which can be wrapped either with just green paper or with the same bills. Especially creative donors go even further, and neat leaflets are also cut out of colored paper, which are then attached to the stalk with glue or tape.

Even the above-described methods of delivering money are relatively popular, since such an approach in the design is not known for the first year and has already managed to pall. In this case, you can issue a cash gift even more impressively and unusually, if you approach the task creatively and taking into account some hobbies of the presented person. Please note that some of the options below can theoretically offend a person, because they are jokes to an amateur.

A box of good birthday sweets is a very good solution as a supplement to the main gift and flowers, especially if the hero of the day is a sweet tooth. At the same time, the box itself will be very valuable if you carefully open it in advance and take out all the candies from there, and instead of them, place a neatly folded bill or coin on each place. The average box can hold 12-20 candies, respectively, the same number of banknotes and coins you should 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 quite a few banknotes, and they are not folded too carefully. If your friend often uses the word “cabbage” in precisely this sense, you can play it well, saying that you did not come up with anything better than to give him exactly cabbage. At this moment, the hero of the occasion will surely think about money, and here you will remove and place on the table the head of ordinary cabbage.

Another interesting way to surprise the hero of the occasion is to give him an ordinary broom. It is unlikely that you will be able to hide the banknotes in its bristles, because it is easier to wrap several separate bristles with banknotes. Of course, you shouldn’t open the entire trick right away - loudly announce that you decided to donate a broom, because nothing better came to mind. For incredulous guests, show the packed broom so that it is obvious that this is exactly what you are talking about - you can even start unpacking it from the side of the handle. In the end, when the secret is revealed, wish the bestowed person to always have as much money as possible in his housing, and even when they sweep, they cling to the broom.

Another curious option is well suited for those people who do not consider themselves to be the ideal happy person, dreams a lot and sees the main way to achieve their goals is to accumulate as much finance as possible. Appearing at the celebration, declare that you have brought an unusual gift - this is a vaccine that will make all the culprit’s dreams come true. Such a statement in itself provokes 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 members of this class are experiencing temporary problems with finances. 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 steeper gift, and this is still a useful thing, the birthday boy will come in handy. Of course, with a roll is not so simple - inside you hid in advance at least one bill of decent denomination.

For this, the paper will have to be opened, but this will only add to the color - 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 fit.

A postcard-envelope with money depicted on it can also be a good joke, if the creators approached its design with taste. Typically, these postcards are printed with images of expensive bills, such as five hundred dollars or euros, and inside there is a relatively small amount, which even up to five thousand rubles is not always enough.

You can try to go from the opposite, and look for a card on which, for example, a modest one hundred rubles will be printed. Inside, of course, you 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, as true loyal comrades, allegedly decided to provide a birthday boy with both. .

Such a design doesn’t pull on a “joke” at all - so many bills are needed to make it, even with small banknotes, the amount will not be too modest anyway. Such a gift will be an excellent option from the team to its boss, who celebrates the anniversary. The real hero of the occasion really bought a cake, and so he bought it, and here he is presented with an impressive amount of money, also in a creative way.

Honestly, this is not so much a painting, as it is again an origami that still needs to be owned, but the approach itself deserves attention. On the canvas, you can portray anything - when choosing a story, you can even start from what you have already learned in the art of folding paper figurines. Naturally, not the whole picture should be made entirely out of bills, so consider what details will be “cash” and where to get the main background.

Do not strive to create a real masterpiece in the field of art, yet you donate money to spend it, because the integrity of the work will still be broken. But when choosing a frame, do not be particularly greedy - it would not fit as an independent gift.

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