Nearly a year ago, talks of redesigning the ten dollar bill circulated faster than U.S. currency.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew last summer announced he was thinking about taking Alexander Hamilton off the ten dollar bill and replacing him with a woman.
Stop traffic.
A woman. Out of all people. The very species that spends money so fast, we wouldn’t even be able to appreciate this monumental development in history before the money was out of our hands and into the hands of the sales rep at Bloomingdales.
After giving it some serious thought and probably after enjoying the hit musical, “Hamilton” over a glass of champagne, Lew was like nahh. Taking a founding father of the United States and basically the Beyonce of this nation’s financial system off the very thing that wouldn’t even be without him? That sh*t would be cray.
We speculate that the real reason Lew turned away from the ten wasn’t so much backlash from critics as it was that these were the leading contenders in the race to be the next face of American money – because they aren’t already.
Kourtney Kardashian seemed pretty underwhelmed at the idea.
Kanye already made Taylor famous. She doesn’t need anymore attention.
Throw in a few more championship titles and Serena might consider.
Drake is into really nice things and really big rings – not pocket change.
Enter a bill that’s worth a little more – the twenty dollar bill. That’s a solid new Urban Decay liquid concealer stick from Sephora and I could use a new one or five.
There’s hot gossip (because that’s what women do) that there will be a new man on the front of the twenty dollar bill – a Tubman. Harriet Tubman is apparently set to replace Andrew Jackson and grace the cover of the twenty and call me old fashioned, but I’d take that over the cover of Vanity Fair any day.
The new bill, however, won’t be ready until 2030, which makes sense because we ladies take a long time to get ready.