Oh yeah.
Why the heck wouldn’t you want to take free money?
Studi
“I throw pennies, nickels, and dimes on the ground”
Yeah, me too…I see how far I roll them down the sidewalk with a flick of the wrist.
I have really poor eyesight so I don’t usually see pennies on the ground. So all I usually see are shiny silver coins, and since I have to bend down to view them, I pick them to make it worth my effort.
Sometimes I mistake a piece of glass for a shiny quarter and I used to pick them up until I started getting infected leg cuts on my upper thigh.
Yep.
Did and do.
It’s a subtle but powerful legacy of having been dirt poor; Darwinian frugality, if you please.
I call it “left pocket change”. The truth behind minding pennies and dollars take care of themselves is true. Spare stuff gets tucked into a jar. I’ve paid off hellacious bills and taken excellent vacations from accrued “found money”.
Money’s a tool, nothing more. Damned if I’ll ever be too proud to salvage what more careless souls discard.
Veb
I’ll only pick up a penny if it’s heads up.
No, I fling pennies with my patented finger-snap-flick. Or I drop them into garbage cans on the street while I wait at the El stop.
Nope. In fact, I usually leave my pennies in the little “Take-a-penny-leave-a-penny” things at the counter of the liquor store.
I’m building up my karma.
I pick 'em up - I’ve got a penny cup in the kitchen - as it fills, I count 'em out and roll 'em up - and deposit them in my daughter’s saving account. Every little bit helps, ya know.
New Zealand stopped having pennies and two-cent pieces ages ago. But we have $1 and $2 coins. Sometimes it’s profitable being a street scavenger …
Oh, and the comment on filfth? That’s nothin’ ‘till you’ve street-scavenged a couple o’ bags full of aluminium cans. Which I do for charity when I’m feeling exceptionally insane.
Yes I do. I put them in my plastic smiley face bank and when it’s fill I take them to the Coinstar bank at the ShopRite and buy groceries.
Little pennies add up.
A penny picker-upper am I.
I hate it when they’re glued to the sidewalk. Damn jokesters.
Angel pennies, I do. There’s a cute story that a angel tosses them down when they miss you, so when you’re feeling blue, don’t pass by the penny sent especially for you.
I do if I’m not in a hurry to get somewhere. At work, I deposit all the extra change I find floating around into the Ronald McDonald House boxes. All the change I find sweeping the dining room, and underneith registers, and at the end of the night when I count the drawers. I usually toss in about a dollar a night. And when I count up the donation canisters, I usually throw in a couple more dollars of my own money for good measure.
At home, I give all my spare change to my sister, especially pennies. She has banks full of them, each one averaging about $20 in pennies alone. And then she has another one just in silver money, I raid that one when I need more spare change for my car.
There’s a lot to be said for pennies on the sidewalk.
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I picked up a penny from the floor at Albertson’s last week, and it was a wheat penny!
I have an office cooler-style water bottle that I’ve been filling up since my son was born. It’s mostly pennies, but two dollar bills go in there, foreign money, 1-ounce silver bars, an old ring that I don’t wear anymore, etc.
When it was about an inch deep I took it to the bank to have it counted. It came to $50.00+. It’s about 7 inches deep now.
I told my son he can have it when he’s 16.
Hm. Never answered the OP…
Yep, I pick up pennies.
Yup. At the end of every day, I dig all the change out of my pockets and dump it into a bowl on my bookshelf. I’ll periodically dig the quarters (and in times of strife, nickels and dimes) out to buy sodas at work. When it fills up, I dump it into an even larger jug on the floor. When that fills up, I take it to the bank.
“You’d get more money working at a job than you do picking up pennies.” Yup, I would, but picking up the penny doesn’t preclude me from working. I’m not picking up pennies for 40 hours each week, I’m picking them up as I see them. End result? I’ve got an extra $0.01, and you’ve got nothing.
“You’re wasting more calories picking it up than you can buy with that penny.” Then consider it free exercise and some money on the side, too. End result? I’m getting into shape and making money. You’ve got nothing.
Nothing, I say, nothing. Well, except for a smug sense of satisfaction at not being someone who scrounges for pennies on busy interstates, so I guess YMMV.
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I don’t pick up pennies, though I will pick up all higher coins.
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At the end of each day, I put whatever pennies are in my pocket in a jar. That’s jar is just about full now.
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Somebody must not only NOT be picking up pennies but actually throwing them away, because the trackbed in the downtown subway stations here in Chicago are literally covered in pennies. It can’t be a “wishing well” thing, because that trackbed is NASTY and no city worker is going to be skimming it for coins unless he’s in a full-body rubber suit. :eek: It’s gotta be people trying to hit the third rail with pennies. Um, do you know what will happen when a penny strikes the third rail? NOTHING! :rolleyes: