Here’s a great idea gone wrong. Take the piggy bank. A staple of American childhood that has taught us how to save for a rainy day. You put money in and don’t take anything out until it’s full. Enter the ATM bank. It’s a fully-operational ATM and will keep a tally of how much money you put in. Need to make a withdrawal? It comes its very own debit card so you can take out cash for fat sack of buds. I really don’t see today’s generation of children saving money with a bank like this.

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Money clips can be made out of anything. Paper clips, rubber bands, you name it and a money clip is made of it.  Designer Scott Amron is trying to dupe people into buying either a $12 pre-made money clip or a $9 DIY kit to make your own. The design is simple: a dollar bill with one end taped with a magnet and the other end taped with a piece of metal.

It folds around your wad of bills as if it is just another dollar among them and it is! This simple and efficient design for a money clip makes me wonder if it would be more rewarding to forgo Amron’s offer of a DIY kit in favor of an attempt to make your own similar concept for a slimmer impact on your budget.

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Would a piggy bank that can save up to $465.46 dollars encourage you to abandon the console RPG you’re playing in favor of hording your money in this game? Staring at it in astonishment, amazed by the fact that it’s a RPG on a piggy bank. You’ll mindlessly drop coins in it, one at a time, at a slow pace. Before long, you’ll realize that all the gear you bought for your character was for naught; you were playing nothing more than Tamagotchi with a bank account . You’ll want all your money back to go get some White Castle. Then you’ll never touch this machine again.

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Sometimes a bland leather wallet just isn’t enough. That’s why people come up with ideas like the Crossword Puzzle Wallet. You might not write on it but it’s totally solvable. #47 is Manual, #54 is Eliot and that’s all I got; I need help. That’s alright though, as you can expect to hold on to this wallet for as long as you’d like making it a much longer crossword puzzle game than the Sunday paper.

Once you’ve completed it, the wallet still has the power to hold your money and plastic but has lost its touch of originality. If only the puzzle could change daily.
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In this day in age, you can walk into any big-box office store like Staples or Office Depot and pick up a printer for under $75 most of the time. For instance, I was able to procure a Canon all-in-one-style printer last year for $55 on sale. Problem is, after the ink cartridges (which, rumor has it, come only half-filled when you buy a new printer) run dry, you need to shell out the bucks for refills. This is when we must ask ourselves: Is it more cost-efficient to buy a new printer or buy refill cartridges?

BookofJoe has asked just that and lists the Epson C88+ printer as an example. It costs $80 and refills add up to $56. At that price, one has to really think hard about this. After all, you can recycle empty ink cartridges for $3 a pop at select stores like Office Depot. That’s $12 after your three colors and black. Each new printer you buy therefore comes with a $12 refund if you think about it.

So at $56 for refills versus $68 for a new printer with the $12 factored in (using the Epson C88+ as an example), I feel it’s best to just buy a new printer when your ink runs out and help contribute to the piles of shit in our landfills. Much easier.

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What could you possibly use a beaten up tennis ball for, other than a moving aid for a desk? “Not much.” would be the correct answer. Unless, of course, you’re pretty damn creative like the eco-friendly designer of these Redefining Wallets, made from recycled products ranging from trading cards to old tires to ticket stubs.

Redefining Wallets offers a range of products, even check book covers, ranging from around $30 to $70. Every wallet is made using a bunch of old crap, even using laminated trading cards as a main ingredient. After the jump, more wallet-goodness! (more…)

Although it’s no Pita Wallet, the Currency Wallet from Margiela will certainly attract a classier woman when you whip it out of your back pocket.

Available in either the US Dollar or the Euro, each wallet is about $390 and demands an owner with plenty of cash to load it up with. At least you’ll look wealthy when you whip out the Euro-version to pick up that silly Mustache Comb necklace for your girlfriend.

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If you have more money then you know what to do with (and that money just happens to be Yen) then you might look a lot like the man pictured above, using the money in anyway you see fit. For those of us with more financial burden, we have to resort to more extreme measures in order to look filthy rich.

For 6,800 yen you can get your own sack of 10,000 Yen note napkins, which can be used to wipe both your brow, and maybe even a dab of Grey Poupon mustard off your greedy little lips. — Andrew Dobrow

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This chair doesn’t look comfortable at all. In fact, if you didn’t know that it was made to improve ergonomics, you’d probably think it was some sort of torture device. But regardless of appearances, the Stand Angle Chair is designed to “improve” comfort, rather than torture. The Stand Angle Chair can be switched into a variety of positions, including the standing position, which is supposed to be optimal for blood flow, but would defeat the purpose of even owning the chair.

The Stand Angle Chair is very expensive. It will cost you $1200-1500. For that kind of dough, we can’t help but recommend saving your money, and just standing up on your own. Also, an accessory which is called a TaskMate, which is actually more like a needed item than an accessory, will put you in the whole for another $900. Completely overpriced in our view, but hey, is having optimal blood flow that important to you? — Andrew Dobrow

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Be afraid…be very afraid. The SnuzNLuz Alarm Clock teaches you to be more punctual in one of the most torturous ways possible. SnuzNLuz connects directly to your bank account and donates money to an organization you can’t stand every time you oversleep. The example used is the GOP. For all we care you can set it to be the NAACP. Whatever gets your ass out of bed and keeps your money in check.

Though if you do decide to order a SnuzNLuz, we suggest donating money to the “feed the Gearfuse writers” fund. All proceeds will be used to feed me. Setup is easy. The clock is equipped with Ethernet and WiFi capabilities and it supports over 1600 different banks, so yours is probably there. ThinkGeek offers these donation ideas:

Are you a butcher? Set your SnuzNLuz to donate to PETA.
Are you a republican? Set your SnuzNLuz to donate to the ACLU!
Are you a land developer? Set your SnuzNLuz to donate to the Wilderness Society!
Enjoy your freedom? Set your SnuzNLuz to donate to the GOP.
Are you a hippie? Set your SnuzNLuz to donate to the American Coal Foundation.
Are you a Ninja? Set your SnuzNLuz to donate to, hrrrm, we can’t find a Pirate Charity at the moment. But there must be one somewhere anyways, the point is it’s easy to setup once you identify your enemy!

We’d like to add “Are you not an asshole? Set your SnuzNLuz to donate to Gearfuse.” Oh, we’re just kidding. But seriously…give us money. — Andrew Dobrow

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