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When is gift wrapping a gift in its own right? When it's made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course, says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them up and spend them." His stores use about 400 sheets a year.