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I bent over 4 times to pick up coins off the ground today..38¢. Do you bend over for 1¢? OLD THREAD!

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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I saw a guy in front of me at In-n-out drop a nickel from his change. He didn't even think about picking it up, he was too cool. He just turned to the cashier and put his hand out for another nickel which the cashier gave him. Guy was about 20 and with a girl he wanted to impress with his coolness. when I got up there I picked it up and gave it back to the clerk. If this act impressed his girl then it reflects just as poorly on her. --Jerry
  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,720 ✭✭✭✭
    I picked up an Indian Head Cent off the sidewalk about 3 years ago.
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From what I have seen this is the only form of exercise a lot of coin guys partake it so it is very encouraged. The coin dead lift. MJ
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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,989 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I pick up every one that I see. Once when I was mowing the yard on my riding lawnmower ,I saw a $10 bill on the ground as I came around a corner.I was off of that sucker before it ever stopped moving!
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I worked at a lumber yard in North Hollywood, CA some
    years back and I dropped my wallet once, but I kicked it
    across the street to a safe place before I bent over to
    pick it upimage However In drive throughs, I will open the
    door at the window and and pick up loose change in the
    driveway and once found a crumpled twenty doing so.

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll bend over for money, sometimes for as little as one cent, after taking a quick look around to see no one is watching. (don't quote me out of context on that sound bite, ok?)

    If there are witnesses, it depends on the situation. Last month I noticed a dollar bill on the ground at the airport, could have easily scooped it up, but was in no mood to stoop in front of a half dozen witnesses and snag it. Apparently, no one else was either. I'm sure others saw it, but also didn't feel like being the one to offer, "who dropped this?" or be on the hidden camera show.

    I've picked up many of coins a few singles and fives, and one time a twenty, but have also passed up nickels, dimies, and single pennies in the parking lot, especially if I can see at a glance it's zinc and been there a while, or if I've got groceries or in a hurry or whatever. I've never found a half dollar or dollar coin. (but did once find a dollar chip at a casino)

    A quarter or higher almost always gets a pickup, unless there would be a moment of awkwardness

    edited to add: sometimes, I'll intentionally drop a little change, because i know folks like finding it as much as i do. Along with salting tips jars with obsolete coinage aka "planting collector seeds"

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  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    Anyone ever started a type set from found money?

    I was thinking about a "road rash set" image

    Some of the coins that I find along the road are amazingly trashed, as you can imagine.



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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I found a $100 bill on the ground, outside a booth at a fair. Left my name and number, in case anyone came looking. Never got a call.

    It didn't make up for losing my father's money clip with a few twenties. I looked for that for weeks.
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  • pennyholicpennyholic Posts: 153 ✭✭✭
    I work at a school and find money all the time, kids do not pick up pennies. The better money is the recycling of cans and bottles that I collect everyday. I turn that money into silver every month. The clothes kids leave out on the fields I turn it in and after a month I go and collect it. I have supplied many friends with some nice sweatshirts and jackets.
  • khaysekhayse Posts: 1,336
    Not for cents...I hate them. I will for nickel/dime/quarter though.

    -Keith
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I saw a guy in front of me at In-n-out drop a nickel from his change. He didn't even think about picking it up, he was too cool. He just turned to the cashier and put his hand out for another nickel which the cashier gave him. Guy was about 20 and with a girl he wanted to impress with his coolness. when I got up there I picked it up and gave it back to the clerk. If this act impressed his girl then it reflects just as poorly on her. --Jerry >>



    We're both in California, a place known for above average materialism and in all my days I can't say I've even seen that here although I can imagine a scene like that playing out. My conclusion: the guy's a try-too-hard d-bag and a true poser while the girl is so dimwitted some costume jewelry and a turned on flashlight could impress her.
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  • littlebearlittlebear Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>My conclusion: the guy's a try-too-hard d-bag and a true poser while the girl is so dimwitted some costume jewelry and a turned on flashlight could impress her. >>




    Now THAT was very descriptive. I really like it!


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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,961 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just before Christmas I was exiting my vehicle in the parking lot of a local store and happened to notice a $20 fluttering at my feet. I picked it up and as I got to the entrance, decided to pay it forward by dropping it in the Salvation Army kettle. I went inside, did my thing, and as I was counting my cash in the checkout line, I realized that the $20 had been my own and had evidently fallen out of my pocket as I got out of the car. The cashier (who I happened to know) asked me why I was smiling and I told her... we both got a laugh out of it. image

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Shame, schlame. WHAT shame? Bah.

    Tuff times, y'know.

    I've always stooped to pick up even shredded "parking lot pennies". Even horrendous corroded Zincolns, though sometimes if they're too far gone I'll throw the real nasties in a fountain or something. (If you can't get one cent for 'em, might as well get a wish, right?)

    The sole exception might be a nasty public restroom floor. I ain't goin' there, unless it's for at least a quarter.

    And if there's a coin in the urinal, it had better be a freakin' SILVER one, if not gold, before I'll glove up and grab it. image

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  • Oops, guess I should have typed my response!

    I find money all the time, pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, $1s, $5s, $10s and $20s.....A few months ago while walking my dogs I kicked a dirty filthy envelope on the ground and out fell 4 $20 bills.... two weeks ago I found a $10,000 Yen note just sitting on the sidewalk on Madison Ave image also have found wheat pennies as well. And I live in Manhattan NY!
  • stealerstealer Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I saw a guy in front of me at In-n-out drop a nickel from his change. He didn't even think about picking it up, he was too cool. He just turned to the cashier and put his hand out for another nickel which the cashier gave him. Guy was about 20 and with a girl he wanted to impress with his coolness. when I got up there I picked it up and gave it back to the clerk. If this act impressed his girl then it reflects just as poorly on her. --Jerry >>



    We're both in California, a place known for above average materialism and in all my days I can't say I've even seen that here although I can imagine a scene like that playing out. My conclusion: the guy's a try-too-hard d-bag and a true poser while the girl is so dimwitted some costume jewelry and a turned on flashlight could impress her. >>


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  • CoinspongeCoinsponge Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭
    I think Obama is always looking for spare change. Especially around the feet of third world dictators.

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    Guess that his attempt to balance the budget.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,797 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think Obama is always looking for spare change. Especially around the feet of third world dictators.

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    Guess that his attempt to balance the budget. >>



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  • Maybe I've watched too many prison movies but I squat down to pick up coins.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The sole exception might be a nasty public restroom floor. I ain't goin' there, unless it's for at least a quarter.

    And if there's a coin in the urinal, it had better be a freakin' SILVER one, if not gold, before I'll glove up and grab it.


    Reminds me of a joke, two yokels are at the outhouse, one says, "oh no, I dropped a quarter in the cesspit!"

    The other considers for a few seconds, then takes out a $20 bill and drops it in. First guy says, "hey, why'd you do THAT?"

    second guy says, "you don't think I'd go down there for just 25 cents, do you?" image

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  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
    True story! Wife just came back from the grocery store ( 12/29/2011). She saw a penny (cent) on the floor near the check out. So, she "bent over" and picked it up. Came home and plopped it on my desk and it's a 1943 Lincoln, zinc-coated steel Wheat cent. image
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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,881 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>True story! Wife just came back from the grocery store ( 12/29/2011). She saw a penny (cent) on the floor near the check out. So, she "bent over" and picked it up. Came home and plopped it on my desk and it's a 1943 Lincoln, zinc-coated steel Wheat cent. image >>



    Kirk, your wife is my hero!!!
    Great story!!!!!!

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    At my age and health, if it does not shine silver or folded over, I will not (cannot) stoop over. Want to see something funny? Just watch me chase a $1 bill caught in the wind.
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  • AhmanfanAhmanfan Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭
    I found a $100 chip at Venitian/palazzo earlier this year.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,797 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>True story! Wife just came back from the grocery store ( 12/29/2011). She saw a penny (cent) on the floor near the check out. So, she "bent over" and picked it up. Came home and plopped it on my desk and it's a 1943 Lincoln, zinc-coated steel Wheat cent. image >>



    Considering how dark most steel cents are, I can understand why most people would not pick it up. Neat story, neat find, and a great wife to be thinking about you.

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  • I picked up a penny the other day and my grandson laughed at me. I told him I only needed another $3.20 to buy a gallon of gas.....image
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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,881 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had four plastic grocery bags in my right hand when I saw this cent on the asphalt at ShopRite.

    And yes, I bent down to pick it up.

    BTW, no milk, eggs, TP, hot dogs, chicken, etc. etc.

    There were at least 10 people behind me.....and that was for the self check out.

  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I always pick up change if I see it. :) since I’ve been working from home for the last year I don’t get out much anymore...

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,797 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll bend over to pick up a cent. I just can't say no to free money. :D

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  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wilford Brimley would be proud... ;)

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  • vplite99vplite99 Posts: 1,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Obviously I am an outlier, but bending over to pick up a penny (which has virtually no value) is irrational, IMHO. I am risking not being able to straighten up or maybe falling down. Of course I am over 70, and I will make an exception if the coin is face up (for luck).

    Vplite99
  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @vplite99 - You should listen to Wilford! ;)

    "If you can't be bothered with nickels and pennies, throw 'em in a jar. Start an oatmeal fund!"

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been told that 2c is the typical monthly interest on a checking account containing a few thousand dollars. That's why I'll pick up any money I see.

  • kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭

    I've been finding alot more pennies the last week on the ground outside of stores, maybe people are afraid to touch them now because of the virus!

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I always pick up change. Nothing like free money!

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,255 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you were Warren Buffett picking up a cent off of the ground would be the start of your next billion.

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  • PickwickjrPickwickjr Posts: 556 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I saw this pulling into a parking lot last year. Parked my car over it to avoid someone else from getting it. It was around $350.

    The next day while walking at lunch I found this $23

    Free coin money!

  • WALLEWALLE Posts: 266 ✭✭✭✭

    All the time

  • SweetpieSweetpie Posts: 494 ✭✭✭✭

    Once at a MVA waiting area, I found a wallet containg 300-400 dollars. Considering mailing it back but what if the person was at the MVA for a "change of address" form. Decided to just give it to a trooper iworking the lobby instead.

    Does this count?

  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No. I am certain I waste at least $20/day, between Starbucks and purchases at ACE or Safeway that I did not need.

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My wife gave me an H of a tongue lashing when I picked up a kopek in the Red Square. :s

    Edit to add...I could see I truly embarrassed the sh*t out of her.

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,361 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember back in 8th grade the cafeteria monitor on my lunch period was the industrial arts teacher (Mr. Marker). We used to buy half pints of milk for 2 cents - most bought two so we got a penny in change for our nickel.
    We found out that Mr. Marker would pickup any change found on the floor so many of the students would roll their pennies out into the aisle where he would see them. Kind of like controlling a teacher instead of the other way around. Good fun for a kid - and only a penny.

    At the end of the school year Mr. Marker addressed our lunch period on the PA. He showed us his brand new Timex watch that he had purchased with the change we so graciously gave him.

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  • I still remember about 35 years ago 2 boys about 12 years old came out of a store and just started flinging the pennies they got in change all over the parking lot.

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  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Icollecteverything said:
    I still remember about 35 years ago 2 boys about 12 years old came out of a store and just started flinging the pennies they got in change all over the parking lot.

    How fast did you pick them up?

  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A few weeks ago, I got out of my car at Lowe's and some genius had emptied an ash tray in the parking lot right where I parked. As I was cursing under my breath, I saw a quarter in the ashes and picked it up only to find several more and a few dimes, nearly $2. Yes, I left the ashes and butts.
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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,138 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't bend over for coins, but I do kneel down to pick them up. ;) My aching back just won't allow it.

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  • IcollecteverythingIcollecteverything Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭

    @mannie gray said:

    @Icollecteverything said:
    I still remember about 35 years ago 2 boys about 12 years old came out of a store and just started flinging the pennies they got in change all over the parking lot.

    How fast did you pick them up?

    I didn't get any. they were really throwing them, probably bouncing them off cars.

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