I totally pick up coins of any denomination. But I don’t find them often. How do you guys find money regularly? Maybe most people here pick up money as well.
I saw a newspaper article on how some Australians don’t even bother to pick up 5c coins when vacuuming, they just treat them as trash.
Do you guys use your coins? I pride myself on keeping my number of coins at a constant level. I know some people can’t do that, they end up with buckets of change.
Anything but a penny. I’ve got two change jars - one for quarters and one for everything else. Every couple of yearsiI cash out and treat myself to something. This summer I’m going on a cruise and should end up with about two hundred in booze/gambling money.
I only pick up 1921 Peace Silver Dollars. I sniff disdainfully at all other dropped coinage.
A quarter–sure, and that’s about the biggest we’ll ever see in the U.S. About all I can use a single quarter for is the tip jar at Starbucks, but that’s something.
If I had the prospect of picking up halves, loonies, toonies, pounds, or Euros I’d be paying a lot more attention, believe me.
Sometime around 1980, I found a $20 bill from the 1950s. It was a Federal Reserve Note but in those days they still had the “Will pay to the bearer” clause under the portrait.
Wish I’d hung onto that…
£1.20 today. Nice.
Just before Christmas, I was waiting at the train station and I saw three £10 notes lying on the track. I left them there. I’m not sure I’d have climbed down there even if it had been a gold ingot.
I only pick up coins I’ve dropped.
I’m another guy who will pick up a nickel or better. I hardly have to slow down to grab one. Why not? I just dump it in the bowl with the rest of the pocket change and cash it in every so often.
And I have a cheap streak.
I would pick up a quarter but nothing less than that. I place my loose change on the dresser and when I accumulate too large a pile, I’ve started throwing the pennies in the trash.
I pick up objects at the bottom of the local pool. The main culprits are bobby pins which quickly rust and leave a stain.
Today it was a penny and a bobby pin, both at least 8’ down. Not the first time I’ve picked up coins. Who brings coins into a pool? Especially a penny? Not even good for the vending machines.
Threw them out. Not worth carrying the cent with me to the locker room.
Outside the pool, I pick up my own dropped coins since I’m not a litter bug. Generally don’t pay attention/care about someone else’s.
I pick up everything that even comes close to resembling a coin or was a coin at one time (you can take them to the bank and exchange them for good ones).
Yes I pick up any coin, and some times I have found up to $5.00 in a year. It all adds up. Little things make a difference.
Sorry Annie, I missed your question. I guess there are some people who wouldn’t bother to pick up 5 cent pieces. In most households though I think they would get saved and put into the coin counter at the bank eventually. Although in the 1970’s I had a friend who had so much disdain for 5 cent pieces he would hurl them into the ocean (we lived on an island).
As an aside, I was talking to the lady at the antiques shop today and she was telling of doing a deceased estate valuation. They thought the curtains looked a bit distorted and had a good look. The elderly deceased owner had pinned bank notes inside the lining of the curtains many years before and had forgotten about them. Nice windfall for the daughter.
My found money amounts to enough for me to treat as pocket money - I wait until there’s ten or twenty pounds worth (every few months on average), then I use it to buy something I want with complete impunity to nagging about having wasted money.
I can’t stand change in my pockets. If anything, I’m the guy dropping them.
I’ll pick up cash though.
Ha! I’ll use that excuse next time someone gives me a funny look 
I like to think of it as helping the economy by returning lost money into circulation 
I pick up coins most days - it’s more noteworthy when I don’t get at least a penny.
I generally use them nowadays, as I’ve filled my little girls terramundimoney jar now (originally they all went in there). I must start a thread on the best way to open a terramundi and cash it in, sometime!
Length of fishing line with chewing gum on the end!
I used to as a kid - to dive for them…
I’ve got some rusted so far beyond recognition, I’d bet even the bank would decline them!
Where do you live, so I can follow you?
I thought about that (along with other possibilities), but this was not at my home station, so I’d have had to go home and come back with any equipment. In any case, I imagine even reaching down to the track with a cane could be regarded as trespassing on the track (max fine £1,000)
I just counted up my found money jar this afternoon - there was about £25 in there. I bagged it up for banking and will use it to by myself a half-decent webcam for stopmotion/timelapse work.
As I posted earlier, I pick up every coin for the exercise. Got fooled twice, though. In a small town in WA State I saw a 50 cent piece. Bent down to grab it and it was glued down. I guess they did it to pick out the tourists. When I go back (my daughter lives there) I am bringing my hammer and chisel. Once in Mexico I found the same, a glued down 5 pesos. I always figure there is a camera, so I smile. Once I found 2-40 dollar Jamaica coins. Was planning a vacation there when I discovered they were worth about a nickel at the time. I left them on an ATM machine, for someones vacation there.
No I don’t because I figure somebody else would derive more pleasure or utility from such a coin than I would. So, in a way, it’s almost like I’m making a random donation to some stranger.
Now… a $5 dollar bill or higher, just laying on the ground? I might not feel so charitable that day.