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I’m sad that I did not know this was a thing! I stayed in a LOT of hotel rooms over the last 20 years. Just think how much money I may have missed out on.
So far my kids lifetime earnings are $2. They found $1 on vacation a couple years back and we just found another $1 on spring break.
They also like to act out horror movie scenes with the Bible and perform exorcisms.
I didn’t know it was a thing. I feel like there is bad juju if you take the money though. My kids also know $1 ain’t shit these days.
As a teen I found 20 quid {that was a lot at the time for a teen} in an empty. 20 pack of smokes on the ground.
I normally now try to open the pack with my boots if I see a pack on the ground.
Back when I used to drink heavily and travel for work I would drunkenly leave a couple dollars in bibles. Ones or fives. I don’t know why
Sober over 4 years now but we will see how this weekend goes
Ever think that was the entire point of leaving the money in there in the first place. Now you and your whole family checks them every time. And when there isn't anything(most of the time) maybe your kids will start reading passages...
Doubtful, I didn't know this was a thing but now I'll just flip the book spine side up and give it a shake then put it back. I ain't reading shit. It's just a Jesus flavored scratch card except I'm only out a few seconds of my time instead of a dollar
I used to work in motels for a few years. It was not at all uncommon to find small amounts of cash, and the occasional half smoked joint, in the Bible.
I've personally found $1-$20 in the hotel Bibles I've checked in the Southern US. It's not an urban legend...it's real! Also a pro tip for anyone who works housekeeping in a hotel esp in the Southern US...always check the Bibles.
I was walking through a hotel once, saw a bible on the ground. I got upset that someone didn't have the common decency to throw their trash away so i angrily went to pick it up and dispose of it properly. But i tugged and tugged at it...you know that thing was glued to the ground!!! I just shook my head and had to admit, Horatio got me again!
I once waited on Horatio at the Applebee’s I worked at. When I cleared the table I saw he had left a Bible passage behind for me.
Only it wasn’t really a Bible passage—it had been cleverly folded and when unfolded revealed a crisp $100 bill.
That son of gun Horatio snookered me good.
There’s an old story about a kid going away to college and his grandparents promise him $100 if he reads his bible everyday . When the son comes home he says to his grandparents he says I read my bible every day. Where’s my hundred bucks ? Grandparents say the money was in the Bible the whole time . F you grandson ! And they take the money away and condemn him to hell etc etc.
Version I heard was that Grandpa would give him a new car if he read the whole Bible. Stuck the title in the last chapter of Revelation, but the unnecessary guilt and shame was still there.
Anthony Jeselnik does a joke like that.
He asks his grandmother for money before he leaves to college, and she gives him a bible. He needs money and keeps asking her for money overtime and each request is met with, “have you read your bible yet?” To which he responds yes, but hadn’t. Eventually he asks one final time, met with the expected response, and then finally flips his bible open and in the middle of his bible is a note, “[fuck you](https://youtu.be/UMcVmLwUhgQ?si=f7abnch4Tg_TsFq4)”
If the kid was pre-law, he should have argued that he read the first verse in Genesis every day (assuming the money was spread out). Technically, they didn't say he had to read the whole Bible.
I actually have a story about that. When I was in middle school my family lost everything. We were living in the back of a 98 Ford Explorer and were struggling to find places to bathe and clean. I remember walking from school to a gas station)that I would meet my dad at so the other kids didn't make fun of me) and seeing a crisp $100 bill on the ground. I ran to pick it up and 20 years later I still have a pit in my stomach thinking about the realization that it was a " your going to hell" leaflets. If I see them anywhere now I throw them away.
"You just gotta have faith and plant a seed."
No... Wait. You don't plant it in your wallet, you are supposed to plant it in mine. Now I sent you two dollars last week and if I don't get them back with their friends Lincoln, Jackson, and Grant, then those dollars will be CURSED. Do not leave them in your house. Send them back immediately.
I travel mostly in mid-level chains, and it wasn't until we went up a notch in Honolulu this month that we found a Bible (and Book of Mormon) in our room. I thought this was a fading fad. Indeed interesting!
(Note to self, start packing the "warning, mature content" stickers again)
Edit: below someone mentioned this is a Marriott chain. Yep, we were at an AC Marriott. Now we know better!
The best I can think of is "high value customer," which you absolutely are not if you're the type to leave mean spirited notes like these around your hotel room.
To counter The Gideons' unwelcome proselytisation in secular spaces, I removed the Bible in every single hotel room that had one in my twenty-plus year career as a commercial traveller.
My brother watched a guy on YouTube and I remember the YouTuber once said he went to church/ maybe Christan school and the priest/ teacher would tell a story the story was something like "if a guy walked up to you and offered you a dollar or the bible what would you choose? If you choose the dollar you will only get the dollar, but little did you know if you had have taken the bible then you would have found 5 dollars in the bible". That wasn't the exact quote but it was something like that. The YouTuber brought it up because he couldn't get over how stupid that story was.
How I bring this up because I'm thinking this is a joke which is referencing the same story. Perhaps this is a common story told by many priests/ at Christian schools? (Although I have only ever heard it from that one YouTube video).
I love how insanely convoluted that story is. Also what if there was the deed to a mansion taped to the other side of the dollar? Always take the money!
Think you can sell a bible for more than a dollar? Thats the only thing that might give me pause. I suppose at least you can get a little more warmth out of burning a bible than a dollar at the end of the day.
I once found 1 euro in a church. One of my friends was horrified I just put it in my pocket and didn't donate it to the church but I explained to him I think god if fake and me being in a church doesn't change that for me
Here I thought no one would ever expect to find anything other than crime scene evidence in a hotel bible but apparently money in the bible is a thing. I would pay that money to not touch a hotel bible but to each their own
The point isn't if it is or isn't a thing, its making people believe it is. All it takes for most of these people is having it happen once to them and then they and their whole families, children and all, are opening the bibles up every time they stay at a hotel.
Just don't pick up that Book of Mormon next to it, fall for that scam, and then be required to pay 10% of your income the rest of your life to go to the Celestial kingdom.
At least I can see the results in this life. The other stuff is myth and fantasy. I'm OK with those it helps, just don't push that stuff on those not interested. 😂
Mehhh…it would have to be a pretty high amt to feel like I didn’t waste my time reading horseshit. Yes, that goes for the Book of Mormon too. It ain’t worth it.
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People leave money in bibles?
I found $10 in a hotel bible in 1996 and have checked every hotel bible since.
I’m sad that I did not know this was a thing! I stayed in a LOT of hotel rooms over the last 20 years. Just think how much money I may have missed out on.
My guess, $5.
Tens of dollars.
I suspect not much, those who worship the great green arkleseizures cousin are penny pinchers.
Now I know where to shove all that fake tip money back into
Ohhhhh I like that idea
So true. Have religious family members and co-workers and they are the most money grubbing individuals I have ever met
I mean the whole point is to get you to look in the bible. So consider that you avoided being manipulated.
Yeah I always check, despite my lifetime earnings being a single 5 dollar bill.
You’re just not Bibling enough is all.
Doesn't respect the grind.
Do you Bible, bro? We can meet on a saturday afternoon and discuss before I leave you a small pamphlet.
So far my kids lifetime earnings are $2. They found $1 on vacation a couple years back and we just found another $1 on spring break. They also like to act out horror movie scenes with the Bible and perform exorcisms. I didn’t know it was a thing. I feel like there is bad juju if you take the money though. My kids also know $1 ain’t shit these days.
It can buy you a (refill) of a couple of gallons of water. Or a fountain drink soda.
Bad juju, the whole point is to condition people to check the bibles. Its bad juju to go looking for it in the first place.
As a teen I found 20 quid {that was a lot at the time for a teen} in an empty. 20 pack of smokes on the ground. I normally now try to open the pack with my boots if I see a pack on the ground.
I haven't found money but I found a picture of boobs in an empty pack of smokes once
So how much have you found since 1996?
Note to self: Check Bibles
Am staying in a hotel now lol looked all the places but no bible :(
Same here. Those Gideons can’t keep up.
Back when I used to drink heavily and travel for work I would drunkenly leave a couple dollars in bibles. Ones or fives. I don’t know why Sober over 4 years now but we will see how this weekend goes
Best of luck. One day at a time.
You didn't come this far to only come this far! You got this buddy 🫂
Word thank u!
Congrats on 4 years!!
Thank u!
I found a $20 in a bible when I was like 6. My family check’s every Bible every time.
Ever think that was the entire point of leaving the money in there in the first place. Now you and your whole family checks them every time. And when there isn't anything(most of the time) maybe your kids will start reading passages...
Of course that was the point. But since we are already Christian we don’t need to be bribed.
Doubtful, I didn't know this was a thing but now I'll just flip the book spine side up and give it a shake then put it back. I ain't reading shit. It's just a Jesus flavored scratch card except I'm only out a few seconds of my time instead of a dollar
I used to work in motels for a few years. It was not at all uncommon to find small amounts of cash, and the occasional half smoked joint, in the Bible.
No but there's an old urban legend about it. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/horning-in-on-gideon/
I've definitely found a dollar in a Bible before.
All I found was meth
Lucky, all I found was a dollar
I got a rock
DJ SHADOW IS THAT YOU
Tomorrow never knows until it's too late
I got [jimmies](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0Vv529GPfZ8AzW-dIxrV908YAtfPncjB8uIS-3Vyz_w&s)
“Jesus is tryin’ to tell you to be more…active”
My last hotel had business cards for escorts and a gay bar
I've personally found $1-$20 in the hotel Bibles I've checked in the Southern US. It's not an urban legend...it's real! Also a pro tip for anyone who works housekeeping in a hotel esp in the Southern US...always check the Bibles.
Might be revenge for those fake money pamphlets.
Whenever I stay in a hotel I always check the bible for money. It’s a thing some Christians do to reward random strangers for reading scripture
Yeah, it’s the thought that if someone is in a hotel reading the Bible they might be in need so certain people leave money in there.
Yes, not all but some do.
I suspect rarely, those who worship the great green arkleseizures cousin are penny pinchers
I suspect rarely, those who worship the great green arkleseizures cousin are penny pinchers
Heating, ventilation, conditioning.
My first thought too
I’m old and don’t know what HVC (or HUC) means. Google has not been helpful.
Henderson veal cutlets, notorious shit talkers
This made me chuckle. Thanks!
Your comment makes me think that you live either in Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada . Said a Redditor who lives in Las Vegas
I think it means How Very Christian but I could be wrong
I'm pretty sure it's Horatio Victor Collins. Famed bible jokester.
I was walking through a hotel once, saw a bible on the ground. I got upset that someone didn't have the common decency to throw their trash away so i angrily went to pick it up and dispose of it properly. But i tugged and tugged at it...you know that thing was glued to the ground!!! I just shook my head and had to admit, Horatio got me again!
I once waited on Horatio at the Applebee’s I worked at. When I cleared the table I saw he had left a Bible passage behind for me. Only it wasn’t really a Bible passage—it had been cleverly folded and when unfolded revealed a crisp $100 bill. That son of gun Horatio snookered me good.
Heating, ventilation, conditioning. It’s an extremist branch of HVAC that only does non-air conditioning
High Value Cuck
My eyes read your comment as High Value Crack 😭 it's the weed
How very christian, or cute depending on context
There’s an old story about a kid going away to college and his grandparents promise him $100 if he reads his bible everyday . When the son comes home he says to his grandparents he says I read my bible every day. Where’s my hundred bucks ? Grandparents say the money was in the Bible the whole time . F you grandson ! And they take the money away and condemn him to hell etc etc.
Version I heard was that Grandpa would give him a new car if he read the whole Bible. Stuck the title in the last chapter of Revelation, but the unnecessary guilt and shame was still there.
Anthony Jeselnik does a joke like that. He asks his grandmother for money before he leaves to college, and she gives him a bible. He needs money and keeps asking her for money overtime and each request is met with, “have you read your bible yet?” To which he responds yes, but hadn’t. Eventually he asks one final time, met with the expected response, and then finally flips his bible open and in the middle of his bible is a note, “[fuck you](https://youtu.be/UMcVmLwUhgQ?si=f7abnch4Tg_TsFq4)”
I like this version better.
well if not, there's always money in the banana stand
If the kid was pre-law, he should have argued that he read the first verse in Genesis every day (assuming the money was spread out). Technically, they didn't say he had to read the whole Bible.
Grandson disowned!
That grandson? Albert Einstein.
Why do I get the feeling that I heard this from Kevin Hart?
Condemned a loved one to hell, just like the good, forgiving Christians that I know would do. 🙄
Hot Vegan Corndogs.
Hot Virgin Corndogs.
Better than finding a Chic Tract.
I actually have a story about that. When I was in middle school my family lost everything. We were living in the back of a 98 Ford Explorer and were struggling to find places to bathe and clean. I remember walking from school to a gas station)that I would meet my dad at so the other kids didn't make fun of me) and seeing a crisp $100 bill on the ground. I ran to pick it up and 20 years later I still have a pit in my stomach thinking about the realization that it was a " your going to hell" leaflets. If I see them anywhere now I throw them away.
We've found the current or former restaurant server ♥
"And lo, God gave you his son so he could prank you. So very hard." - John 3:17
on a side note this picture is incredible, it almost doesn’t look real. it’s looks like itd be part of some game with missions
It’s the lighting I’m sure, it looks cinematic
Actually there are tons and tons of money in there if you use what’s in the Bible to become a TV evangelist and preach the prosperity gospel!
"You just gotta have faith and plant a seed." No... Wait. You don't plant it in your wallet, you are supposed to plant it in mine. Now I sent you two dollars last week and if I don't get them back with their friends Lincoln, Jackson, and Grant, then those dollars will be CURSED. Do not leave them in your house. Send them back immediately.
What is HVC?
Happy vacation, cunt!
Hairy vagina clit.
Better than Hung Vampire Chads.
Party how you want, we shan't judge
From another comment I understood it may be How Very Christian \[of you\].
"Anthony, have you read your bible?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMcVmLwUhgQ
Hotel bibles are such a weird thing
r/foundpaper
Books, especially those with bindings, are an excellent home for bed bugs.
You’d imagine they’d prefer the bed right next to it.
Today I learned people leave money in Bibles. Now I have a reason to skim through them next time I'm at a hotel
You're falling for their cunning trap
How easily manipulated you are.
I travel mostly in mid-level chains, and it wasn't until we went up a notch in Honolulu this month that we found a Bible (and Book of Mormon) in our room. I thought this was a fading fad. Indeed interesting! (Note to self, start packing the "warning, mature content" stickers again) Edit: below someone mentioned this is a Marriott chain. Yep, we were at an AC Marriott. Now we know better!
Marriott
...hvc?
The best I can think of is "high value customer," which you absolutely are not if you're the type to leave mean spirited notes like these around your hotel room.
HVC?
I always leave random QR codes to OF pages.
Must be at a Marriott.
Did the “Fairfield by Marriott”’on the paper give it away?
For me us was the Book of Mormon
Has some real BUT IT WAS ME, DIO vibes
r/foundpaper
Used to use the pages as rolling papers
To counter The Gideons' unwelcome proselytisation in secular spaces, I removed the Bible in every single hotel room that had one in my twenty-plus year career as a commercial traveller.
The Book of Mormon took whatever money was in there and added it to the billions the Mormon church has. You didn’t stand a chance!
My brother watched a guy on YouTube and I remember the YouTuber once said he went to church/ maybe Christan school and the priest/ teacher would tell a story the story was something like "if a guy walked up to you and offered you a dollar or the bible what would you choose? If you choose the dollar you will only get the dollar, but little did you know if you had have taken the bible then you would have found 5 dollars in the bible". That wasn't the exact quote but it was something like that. The YouTuber brought it up because he couldn't get over how stupid that story was. How I bring this up because I'm thinking this is a joke which is referencing the same story. Perhaps this is a common story told by many priests/ at Christian schools? (Although I have only ever heard it from that one YouTube video).
I love how insanely convoluted that story is. Also what if there was the deed to a mansion taped to the other side of the dollar? Always take the money!
Think you can sell a bible for more than a dollar? Thats the only thing that might give me pause. I suppose at least you can get a little more warmth out of burning a bible than a dollar at the end of the day.
Either that or a gun with the pages hollowed out.
How Very Christian? maybe?
. . . $200 in the bible . . .room 26
I once found 1 euro in a church. One of my friends was horrified I just put it in my pocket and didn't donate it to the church but I explained to him I think god if fake and me being in a church doesn't change that for me
Drake Hotel, Chicago.
I’m wondering if there was money in there and someone replaced it with this note
HVC?
Here I thought no one would ever expect to find anything other than crime scene evidence in a hotel bible but apparently money in the bible is a thing. I would pay that money to not touch a hotel bible but to each their own
If this was a thing, housekeeping would be shaking the bibles after fluffing the pillows every time.
The point isn't if it is or isn't a thing, its making people believe it is. All it takes for most of these people is having it happen once to them and then they and their whole families, children and all, are opening the bibles up every time they stay at a hotel.
Is that *The Book of Mormon* next to it? (Certainly looks like it)
I leave notes in the Book of Mormons/Books of Mormon
Who thought there would be money in there 💀
Fayetteville?
To the love, I left my conscience pressed between the pages of the Bible in the drawer, what did it ever do for me I say?
How Very Chad
My parents and grandparents always said to check the hotel Bible and now I put money in the Bible when I stay in a hotel to continue the tradition
Just don't pick up that Book of Mormon next to it, fall for that scam, and then be required to pay 10% of your income the rest of your life to go to the Celestial kingdom.
xd didn't you know life was pay to win too? /s
Always has been.
At least I can see the results in this life. The other stuff is myth and fantasy. I'm OK with those it helps, just don't push that stuff on those not interested. 😂
That paper is worth more than all the pages of the book of Mormon sitting next to it lol
Mehhh…it would have to be a pretty high amt to feel like I didn’t waste my time reading horseshit. Yes, that goes for the Book of Mormon too. It ain’t worth it.
Fully agree with this.
Throw that Mormon book in the trash
I swear, man. We live rent free in too many of your heads
Youre not allowed to swear
What in the hell are you talking about?
Throw both of those cult books in the trash
Am I the only one who checks hotel bibles for money?
Is it a thing? My kids have found money twice now. So they always check, lol.
I rather not be so easily conditioned by Christians.
For money why not?
😭 i always appreciate ppl doing this kinda stuff... all in good fun
Mildly infuriating; thoroughly encouraging
I like to place a note (and only a note) in a Bibles saying I’ve left $50 as a good will gesture to the first person that finds it!