“Bingo Bucks” are what I call the coupons, each worth 5 cents, that residents at the nursing home where I volunteer can win by playing Bingo every Wednesday night. – Ellen refers to them as Funny Money. – They’re used to buy bargain-priced snacks, personal care products and small gifts at the Rec. Dept.’s “Corner Store”.

I used scraps of worsted weight kitchen cotton for my pockets.

Substituted large wooden beads for buttons. Thought they might be easier for the Crochet Corner ladies to get a buttonhole on and off than a flat little button.

I’m sure that Laura Bain wrote this pattern, with a single gift card in mind but, since my envelopes are meant to hold several Bingo Buck cards, I made them a little larger.