When you see a penny on the sidewalk...
GoldenEyeNumismatics
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do you pick it up?
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to the sidewalk just for the fun of it. Superglue holds really well! Most realize that it's glued and
give a chuckle or laugh. What surprised me is that kids rarely pick up cents or nickels. Old folks,
60 and up, always bend over and try for it. Dimes are easily overlooked by everybody as they are
the hardest to see and almost blend into the concrete.
bob
By the way I walked into 7-11 this morning 2 kids bought a breakfast sandwich, both came to $1.03 each, each kid gave the cashier $2 and told her to keep the change. Tells me they don't know the value of money. I stopped them and told them that I would gladly give them half face value for all the money they had, they looked at me like I was stupid, I told them thats more than they would have had if they gave it away like that. Hopefully taught them something, even told them the change bottle story.
1997-present
Now that my local post office is phasing out its vending machines, I may stop that even. The road kill beat up coins usually go into the post office vending machine. Paper money, I will stop for, though it is rare.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
In Miami there were always groups of pennies on streets and on sidewalks, especially in Cuban areas.
cheers, Alan Mendelson
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It will bring good luck for the rest of the day.
These pics show the coins I found in 2005, $8.46 .............I have a cup filled with 2006 finds, though I haven't counted them yet.
The 2007 finds will be a record year........found 2 ones and a five a few month ago.
Herb
you appear to be somewhat of a pack rat!
<< <i>herb,
you appear to be somewhat of a pack rat!
No way!!!! Why would you say that??
You been talking to the wife???
Herb
Pick it up
All day long
Have good luck.
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
I don't want to look like a mizer, so I only pickup small change when I'm alone.
snatch it up and plant it in another thread
AL
K S
<< <i>One of these days I'll pick up a 72 DDO -- I just know it! >>
I did that last Fall
<< <i>Nope, and if I'm on my bike, I don't even stop for quarters. >>
I will stop for a quarter.
<< <i>I will always pick up free money left on the ground. It amazes me that people don't really care about money that much, I have a 5 gallon water bottle for change, every year I get $300-$500 from it. I doubt it would be a fraction of that if threw all my money on the ground.
By the way I walked into 7-11 this morning 2 kids bought a breakfast sandwich, both came to $1.03 each, each kid gave the cashier $2 and told her to keep the change. Tells me they don't know the value of money. I stopped them and told them that I would gladly give them half face value for all the money they had, they looked at me like I was stupid, I told them thats more than they would have had if they gave it away like that. Hopefully taught them something, even told them the change bottle story. >>
So you are the one that stops me and tells me stories...
Just kidding, kids trying to show off...
dont wanna get any bad juju!
"No" says the first freind.
"Awh come on - you'd still be $2.00 richer than you were a minute ago.," responds the second freind.
"No way - a $5.00 bill is worth $5.00," explains the first friend.
I think the point of this story was to demonstrate the idea that the price you pay for something has nothing to do with the price you sell it for; for me it served another purpose: suffice it say that this job did not prove to be very rewarding experience for me, and I was very happy to quit as soon as I was able to - that night I was washing my car at self-serve wash and low and behold what did I find but a five dollar bill, which I immediately sold it to a homeless guy fishing for cans nearby for $2.00.
>>>My Collection
<< <i>If you could save just $10 a day, everyday, thats about $3500 a year. So I acomplish this by going to several supermarkets a day getting the absolute lowest possible prices on grocerys. >>
Dude, you have WAY too much time on your hands.
Do you bring your cereal bowl into Starbucks and fill it up there, or do you just empty their milk into a thermos and take it home for use later? Or you couldjust "apprpriate"their thermos altogether and sell it for a couple of bucks -- mo' money fo' u!
Have you tried dumpster diving? The stuff's free even if a bit damaged.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>
<< <i>One of these days I'll pick up a 72 DDO -- I just know it! >>
I did that last Fall >>
Congrats -- I'm sure there's more out there! People will look at/hoard wheat cents, but few pay any mind to memorial cents.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
Heck, it could be the '14-D I'm lookin' for
Steve
The hope of finding a valuable coin motivates me to stop and pick up that penny.
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
WTB: Barber Quarters XF
And recently they started throwing cents on the floor, to watch me pick them up.
Now, that I'm in college, I often see change lying around on the main steps where people often hang out during breaks. The other day I saw two lincolns laying on the steps but didn't pick them up because I didn't want to look like a idiot. I was really tempted, though. I try not to do it when people are looking or around but it's freakin hard not to!
<< <i>do you pick it up? >>
My back hurts like hell- if it can jump in my hand then its a lucky penny
no jump, no luck..