i pick 'em up! except for one many years ago. turned out some joker epoxied one to the sidewalk...............never could get it off!
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I pick up everything that looks like money. I have found pennies, nickels quarters, dollar bills $10 and $20 bills. I have done this all my life. I tend to look down when i walk. As far as i am concerned it pays off!
<< <i>Let me share a personal story. When growing up I was the last of five siblings at home with my mother who raised all of us on her own due to a medical condition that institutionalized my father. To say the least, every cent counted. My mother was a custodian at a high school. She picked up every dang coin she found. These were found in the halls when she swept, on the cafeteria tables left behind everyday and inside lockers and desk at the end of the school year. (She washed each locker and desk during the summer for the start of the next school year)
Around August the large jar in her locker would find its way home. I was the first to search it and add to my collection. I dare say, many of the cents in those three - four old blue whitman albums I still have hold the fruit of my mothers labor and the beginning to my coin collecting. After searching, I was tasked to roll the coins, and off we would walk to the bank (no car in the family) each of us carrying a brown paper bag with the sum total of around $75-$100 average per year. Once cashed, we headed to the store to buy me school cloths and a new pair of shoes. Next was a bit of shopping for my mother for whatever she wanted to buy with her "bonus". It was then lunch, and grocery shopping and we would walk the mile + back to our home, both feeling wonderful.
So to answer your question, yes, I pick up every coin I see, and now you can understand why.
WS >>
Great anecdote, WS. A penny saved is still a penny earned, and so is a penny found.
The only time I'll not pick up money is when it's really filthy or imbedded in the asphalt. With a paper napkin or a piece of paper towel nearly always handy in my back pocket, it's convenient to pocket even the wet and slushy coins.
I walk and run an average of 30 miles a week, and I find at least one coin on more days than I don't. It's good exercise (for a generally healthy person) to bend over; it's good for the environment to remove any sort of litter; and it's good karma to respect the value of money.
I doubt that these finds total much more than $10 a year, which certainly has no impact on the quality of my life, but it strikes me as arrogant to ignore found money in any amount.
"Coin collecting problem"? What "coin collecting problem"?
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I, too, pick up every coin I see - unless I'm in a big crowd and moving fast.
I used to compete with a buddy of mine to see who could pick up the most change in a year - some years we'd hit $15-$20!
Our daughter picks up coins too. When she was in high school, she used to come home with a dollar or two after every gym class - coins would fall out of her classmates pockets when they were changing and they'd rarely bother to pick them up.
I not only pick up pennies, I pick up all coins and paper bills. You can find coins and bills everywhere. Walk though a college football parking lot after a game. High schools parking lots are an excellent place to walk and look. When I was coaching a kid wanted to borrow money for a soda. I told him to take a walk through the parking lot and he would find enough. He came back and told be that at first he though I was kidding. He had more than enough for his drink. Most runners and joggers have a money jar. I need to count mine for the year.
<< I read somewhere that Bil Gates, wouldn't bend over to pickup 10,000 dollars. Which makes sense, his net worth is 50 billion, why bother. >>
I read that a reporter was with Warren Buffet (the 2nd richest American) when Mr. Buffet reached down and picked up a penny. He told the reporter "That is the start of my next Billion."
My 18 year old son has never liked change. If it's less than a quarter he just tosses it aside as it's worthless to him. >>
I find that is amazing with todays youth and I'm not that old either. It's very common to see kids throwing the money on the ground like it's worthless. I asked one kid one time how often he did that, he said every time he got change. I asked him how much, he said maybe $3 a week. I did the math for him and told him thats $156 a year he is throwing away. He said he never thought of it that way and I think I converted one to a saver.
<< <i>Yes, and while in gas stations and convenience stores, I always look for that little cup by the register that says "Need a Penny ? Take a Penny ! ". I always ask if it's okay if I take a penny. I've never been refused to this day. I got two MS 66 and one MS 67 1995 D Lincoln cents graded at PCGS using this method. I was sure they were MS68s >>
Going back through my records, I found this entry in 2005...Blame a bad memory 1 22046139 3130 1995-D 1C US MS66RD 2 22046140 3130 1995-D 1C US MS67RD
Yep. I never pass by free money no matter how small. If you keep your head down you will be surprised what you find.
Though the saying "a penny saved is a penny earned" does not quite do it these days as in Ben Franklin's day. A penny today is probably 1/500 value of what is was back then.
I pick it ALL up. It goes into a large water-cooler bottle. All denominations. I do a bit of distance running so I like to run into a setting sun and look at the street for the reflections. It gets pretty bad when you plan your runs into the sun so you can pick up change. Ironically, with all the miles, I've only found one bill ($1). But we've got all denominations in the found-bottle now . . . 7 or 8 $20s, one $50, and several $5 and $10 each.
My wife and I are so into it we'll mark locations where they have settled into the "tack oil" in the asphalt and then go back with an Estwing rock hammer to chip them out of the road tar.
I pick up all the Change. My wife Has a Ceramic Angel that holds Coins and It has the Words "Pennies From Heaven" written on it,soo we Put only the ones we find into it. It's kinda Fun to see how much it really accumulates over time. Ray in Florida..
Good One! Similar to the one I heard a while back: You have twenty one best friends in life - your fingers, your toes, and your mind!
On the subject of pennies: Absolutely! I've often come across that tell-tale glittering wink from a lonely Lincoln cent beckoning me to stoop and smooch. I fall for it every time, and have found some mint-stately beauties carelessly abandoned when they should have been kept, caressed, and examined up close!
Not much, but when we were kids we used to glue them to the ground and watch other people try to pick them up , and then there was the fishing line, but that was currency...
yes i pick all of them up. I even pulled over to the side of the highway once and retrieved 27 cents someone had thrown out....the shiny copper caught my eye at 70......
I just found 67pennies(7 coppers), 2 dimes, 1 nickel today in a mall parking lot. Walked around for about 3 minutes. That averages about 18.40 an hour. :
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My 18 year old son has never liked change. If it's less than a quarter he just tosses it aside as it's worthless to him.
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i pick 'em up! except for one many years ago. turned out some joker epoxied one to the sidewalk...............never could get it off!
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<< <i>Depends on who's behind me!
I hear that!!! Me Too.
<< <i>Let me share a personal story. When growing up I was the last of five siblings at home with my mother who raised all of us on her own due to a medical condition that institutionalized my father. To say the least, every cent counted. My mother was a custodian at a high school. She picked up every dang coin she found. These were found in the halls when she swept, on the cafeteria tables left behind everyday and inside lockers and desk at the end of the school year. (She washed each locker and desk during the summer for the start of the next school year)
Around August the large jar in her locker would find its way home. I was the first to search it and add to my collection. I dare say, many of the cents in those three - four old blue whitman albums I still have hold the fruit of my mothers labor and the beginning to my coin collecting. After searching, I was tasked to roll the coins, and off we would walk to the bank (no car in the family) each of us carrying a brown paper bag with the sum total of around $75-$100 average per year. Once cashed, we headed to the store to buy me school cloths and a new pair of shoes. Next was a bit of shopping for my mother for whatever she wanted to buy with her "bonus". It was then lunch, and grocery shopping and we would walk the mile + back to our home, both feeling wonderful.
So to answer your question, yes, I pick up every coin I see, and now you can understand why.
WS >>
Great anecdote, WS. A penny saved is still a penny earned, and so is a penny found.
The only time I'll not pick up money is when it's really filthy or imbedded in the asphalt. With a paper napkin or a piece of paper towel nearly always handy in my back pocket, it's convenient to pocket even the wet and slushy coins.
I walk and run an average of 30 miles a week, and I find at least one coin on more days than I don't. It's good exercise (for a generally healthy person) to bend over; it's good for the environment to remove any sort of litter; and it's good karma to respect the value of money.
I doubt that these finds total much more than $10 a year, which certainly has no impact on the quality of my life, but it strikes me as arrogant to ignore found money in any amount.
I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.
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I used to compete with a buddy of mine to see who could pick up the most change in a year - some years we'd hit $15-$20!
Our daughter picks up coins too. When she was in high school, she used to come home with a dollar or two after every gym class - coins would fall out of her classmates pockets when they were changing and they'd rarely bother to pick them up.
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Which makes sense, his net worth is 50 billion, why bother. >>
I read that a reporter was with Warren Buffet (the 2nd richest American) when Mr. Buffet reached down and picked up a penny. He told the reporter "That is the start of my next Billion."
Dave
<< <i>Yes, all the time.
My 18 year old son has never liked change. If it's less than a quarter he just tosses it aside as it's worthless to him. >>
I find that is amazing with todays youth and I'm not that old either. It's very common to see kids throwing the money on the ground like it's worthless. I asked one kid one time how often he did that, he said every time he got change. I asked him how much, he said maybe $3 a week. I did the math for him and told him thats $156 a year he is throwing away. He said he never thought of it that way and I think I converted one to a saver.
Walking beneath the bleachers after high school football games can be very financially rewarding- I say this from personal experience.
-Randy Newman
<< <i>Heads up pick it up
Heads down leave it down
That's my thought too.
<< <i>Yes, and while in gas stations and convenience stores, I always look for that little cup by the register that says "Need a Penny ? Take a Penny ! ". I always ask if it's okay if I take a penny. I've never been refused to this day.
I got two MS 66 and one MS 67 1995 D Lincoln cents graded at PCGS using this method.
I was sure they were MS68s
Going back through my records, I found this entry in 2005...Blame a bad memory
1 22046139 3130 1995-D 1C US MS66RD
2 22046140 3130 1995-D 1C US MS67RD
I was sure I sent 3 in for grading
Though the saying "a penny saved is a penny earned" does not quite do it these days as in Ben Franklin's day. A penny today is probably 1/500 value of what is was back then.
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My wife and I are so into it we'll mark locations where they have settled into the "tack oil" in the asphalt and then go back with an Estwing rock hammer to chip them out of the road tar.
Drunner
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<< <i>i pick 'em up! except for one many years ago. turned out some joker epoxied one to the sidewalk...............never could get it off!
than a penny's worth of effort to pick one up and spend it.
I doubt many children will pick them up after finding they need a few
dozen to buy a candy bar.
Back in school I wanted to see if you could work a mouse to exhaustion
or death by giving it progressively smaller rewards for the same exertion.
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You have twenty one best friends in life - your fingers, your toes, and your mind!
On the subject of pennies:
Absolutely!
I've often come across that tell-tale glittering wink from a lonely Lincoln cent beckoning me to stoop and smooch.
I fall for it every time, and have found some mint-stately beauties carelessly abandoned when they should have
been kept, caressed, and examined up close!
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<< <i>yup - guilty here
i've kept track of all the change i found around the neighborhood this past year
just for the fun of it
total - 22.82
627-pennies 38-nickels 79-dimes 25-quarters 1-half >>
Finally a half seen in circulation!