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I typically round up pennies in my car or home and throw them in the trash can. If I buy something in the store, I will leave pennies in the tray. What no one mentioned is a soda cost 45 cents, but the soda machine the op mentioned would not take pennies. When was the last time you ever saw even a gumball machine that took less than a dime?
I used to pick up cans and bottles along the road for the deposit refunds. It also got me out of the house during my free time and was good exercise. Stopped doing it because it is frowned upon in the area I live to act that gauche. Got bugged eye looks from co-workers who would see me picking up the cans. Also, traffic around here is silly. One day I would of got clipped or worse by a car. Call it mentally disturbed, but one day I'd love to have enough money so I could do something as simple and yet green as picking up bottles and cans for the "free" money. It is amazing how much people toss them out of their cars. I got tired of seeing all that nickel deposit containers just strewn about the sides of roads. As far as I have seen, nobody else has taken much interest in picking up the cans. Probably too much trouble considering they'd have to spend some time doing it.
I never pick up money if it doesn't belong to me. I believe in karma, and yes I could argue that somehow this money was owed to me by someone who had a debt to pay me. On the other hand, it could be that if I take the money, I will then have to pay the owner back. I choose to not pick it up. If somone owes me, he/she can stick the money in my hands !
Come on. If you saw a coin on the pavement of a parkinglot, you wouldn't pick it up?
Finder keepers, losers weepers.
I only pick up pennies that are heads up ~~ it's good luck. I went around the block to pick up a dollar that was blowing in the road.
Most convenience stores have a little tray of pennies on the checkout, where people getting pennies in change can throw them away, and people who need them to pay sales tax can pick a couple up if necessary. They are there for the taking, and even bums don't bother to take them.
Even quarters, the largest coin in circulation, has no practical value, because it is quite a challenge to try to think of something that you can buy and pay for it using just one quarter. (Things that are priced per piece, not one grape sold by the pound at the supermarket.)
The only thing I can think of, is actually a manufactured product, with moving parts. Insulin needles at Walmart pharmacy are 20c each, and you can buy one, with a quarter, and get change.
But it seems silly to even have coins, if the largest coin in circulation can't be used to buy anything. The US $1 bill is very close, now, to being the smallest paper banknote in the world. No western country has a paper banknote worth as little as a US dollar.
Look at it this way. If you picked up one penny a day for 365 days a year, of course that's $3.65. Do that for 50 years and you'll have $182.50. Think of what that can buy. It would probably be much more when you include other change. I'll gladly contribute a "measly" penny or nickel or whatever to my jar of coins because it really adds up after a while.
Come on. If you saw a coin on the pavement of a parkinglot, you wouldn't pick it up?
That's right. I wouldn't pick it up!
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