Lucky Money Envelopes

Chinese New Year is almost like Christmas for Asian kids. We Vietnamese call it "Tet." I remember during that time of year there was food and festivity and most importantly (to us kids) there was the lucky money envelopes, or as we call it in Vietnamese "li see." We had to earn it though, by folding our arms, giving a little speech wishing our family friends and relatives a healthy and prosperous year, and generally looking cute. Then we would collect the "li see" envelopes and see what crisp new denominations of bills were inside. Of course, even that tradition became Americanized when one year a relative filled our "li see" envelope with a crisp gift certificate to McDonald's!

You can make your own lucky money envelopes by going to this site where you can print templates, cut them out, and fold them.