Do you pick up pennies?

[Napier]

@Trinopus

I once found a five-dollar bill in the gutter…but someone had fouled it pretty badly. Used it as toilet paper. I thought, even so, about taking it to a bank and asking for a fresh replacement, but decided against it.

“Hey! Do you have change for a five? No?”

[escaped]

I pick up pennies on occasion.

[jz78817]

@CoastalMaineiac

Lately, at work, people have been leaving them all over the place in the break room. I’ve seen people drop them, and they don’t even bother to pick them up.

I don’t quite get this attitude. Why would you throw perfectly good money on the floor? Sure, each penny isn’t worth much on its own, but they add up quickly enough.

I pick them up whenever I find them, and they go into a coin jar at home. When they start to accumulate, I count them, put them into rolls, and take them into the bank with all my other change. I find it’s a great way to make an extra deposit into my savings account.

no. pennies are an irritant. fuck those things.

[jz78817]

@Peremensoe

The relevant question is not your total earnings, it’s your earnings relative to time expenditure. I estimate my own penny-picking pay at $12-$18/hour, tax-free, two to three seconds per. Given that I am otherwise either not earning anything in those seconds, or earning my regular pay already, that sounds pretty good. It’s not a job, it’s a raise.

Also, do you want to be the kind of person who thinks bending over swiftly to pick up a small object is an exertion, a bother?

I hope you’re just being funny.

[qubed]

I throw away all pennies, nickels, and dimes that make it into my house. Now granted, very few actually make it there as the few I do get as change end up in a tip jar. If I kept them all, it probably be less than $5/year.

I don’t have a bank to deposit them, and there’s no coinstar or similar machines anywhere close. Quarters I eventually give/exchange to a friend for laundry/parking.

[Peremensoe]

@jz78817

I hope you’re just being funny.

No. I mean, I meant it to be amusing, but it’s true. As far as I can see, there’s no reason not to pick up coins. Unless you’re disabled, the ‘effort’ is microscopic.

[RealityChuck]

@kayaker

If I were offered a job picking up pennies and my pay was keeping the pennies I picked up I’d turn down the job offer.

So, no.

But that’s not your salary… It’s a supplement to what you’re already making - in effect a raise. Why would you turn down a raise?

[AppallingGael]

I pick up pennies when I have enough energy to do it quickly enough so that it works out to an above-minimum wage job. Otherwise, no.

[Lord_Feldon]

@Peremensoe

No. I mean, I meant it to be amusing, but it’s true. As far as I can see, there’s no reason not to pick up coins. Unless you’re disabled, the ‘effort’ is microscopic.

There’s no reason to pick up a coin if you know you won’t use it. In that case, it’s clutter, not money.

[RobDog]

I haven’t picked up any coinage since being mocked mercilessly by the little fuckers who’d glued a pound coin solidly to the pavement.

[kayaker]

@RealityChuck

But that’s not your salary… It’s a supplement to what you’re already making - in effect a raise. Why would you turn down a raise?

The same reason I pay a couple bucks more for blueberries that have been picked, rather than going the “pick your own” route that the farm market offers.

[campp]

I had a friend who ran a coin-op car wash. He always found lots of coins when he emptied the vacuum systems.

[hajario]

@Peremensoe

No. I mean, I meant it to be amusing, but it’s true. As far as I can see, there’s no reason not to pick up coins. Unless you’re disabled, the ‘effort’ is microscopic.

@RealityChuck

But that’s not your salary… It’s a supplement to what you’re already making - in effect a raise. Why would you turn down a raise?

I make more money than I can spend already and I have better things to do with my time.

[clairobscur]

Except in homes or workplaces, I never pick up small change (anything below € 1). In fact, I don’t pick them up even if I dropped them. I figure I can leave them for someone who presumably will need this small amount of money more than myself.
This habit was born from a couple memories of me, when fairly young, actively looking for some lost small change because I was missing, say, 10 cents to buy something or other.

[Peremensoe]

@Lord_Feldon

There’s no reason to pick up a coin if you know you won’t use it. In that case, it’s clutter, not money.

But I do use them. I spend coins all the time, and that keeps more of the paper money in my pocket.

[Peremensoe]

@hajario

I make more money than I can spend already…

Oh, now that just shows a lack of imagination.

[hajario]

@Peremensoe

Oh, now that just shows a lack of imagination.

I imagine retiring while I’m still relatively young and spending the rest of my life seeing as much live music as possible.

[Gothic]

I used to as a kid for good luck, but stopped when I got called a jew.

[Intergalactic_Gladiator]

Sometimes I do. A couple years ago I started training for a half marathon and was finding them while running so it became a joke that I kept finding all this change. It got to a point where I couldn’t afford to not run. If I find loose change on the ground when I’m with one of my kids I’ll point it out to them and let them get it.

[Mudshark]

I pick up any money on the ground. I’ll even look under the vending machines for dropped change.

I’ve actually chiseled up a glued quarter, much to the surprise of the kids who glued it down.