Patent of the Week - Money Hanger

My daughter turns 5 next week and I don't expect her to receive cash gifts from her relatives or friends.  But even if I did, would I really want her to use this novel device?

That's right, it's a way to show off to the world exactly how much loot you raked in on your big day.  Very convenient when walking to deposit all that cash at the nearest ATM.

Here's the one and only claim:

U.S. Patent No. 7,523,575 Method and appartus for celebration money hanger Filed: April 14, 2008 1. A method for attaching paper money to the clothing of a user, comprising the steps of: a) providing a body having a front and a rear side; b) providing a celebratory message on the front side of the body; c) attaching the body to the clothing of the user so that the body is removably attached to the clothing of the user; d) attaching the paper money to the body so that the paper money is removably attached to the body; e) providing a wire member for attaching the paper money to the body, wherein the wire member is shaped like a horseshoe having a first and second end, wherein the first and second ends are biased away from each other; f) providing a first and second receptacle on the rear side of the body, wherein the first end of the wire member can be attached to and removed from the first receptacle and the second end of the wire member can be attached to and removed from the second receptacle; and, g) removing the first end of the wire member from the first receptacle and passing the first end through the paper money, and, reattaching the first end of the wire member to the first receptacle so that the paper money can be removably attached to the body.

Commentary: At least it looks like we've found another Art Unit with short pendencies.  No Accelerated Exam here for this 12-month filing-to-issuance (including a round of office action and amendment to circumvent prior art).  Not much else to say here from a claim perspective, other than that I wonder if performing this method might potentially run up on some other problems, like 18 U.S.C. Section 333 (okay, there's an intent requirement there... but why even risk it?)

Also, this inventor is from Alabama.  In light of a previous Patent of the Week involving certain rodents, I have to wonder if it is just my Northern biases at play here.  Can someone from the South please tell me if this notion of showing off your birthday gift money is at all common?  Or squirrel skinning, for that matter?  I really have a difficult time imagining either of these activities occuring in an urban environment.