Gotta love Coingirl!!!

Goldbully

HuffPo......

Coin Girl to the Rescue!


I possess a secret talent. And no, it's not the juggling of flaming chainsaws while whistling the Star Spangled Banner. (I'm actually a pretty poor whistler.)

I find coins on the ground.

Wherever. Whenever. Always have and always will.

My parents joke about how I exhibited this talent from the time I took my first steps.

On the bus and at the store. Everywhere my little legs took me. Coins. Coins. Coins.

Their theory was that I was low to the ground, and thus was physically closer to all the riches of dropped money. But I'm 5'8" tall now, so that explanation doesn't exactly hold water. It's simply part of my nature.

My eyes constantly scan the ground. I'm like a cross between a Marvel super-hero and a secret government robo-something. (Coin-Girl to the rescue!)

I once saw a nurse at work throw a handful of pennies into the garbage. The garbage, people! I was shocked, and surprised that no one else shared my flabbergasted reaction. Unfortunately, I have a hard and fast rule that I do not dig through hospital garbage. (I am a labor and delivery nurse, which is about the bloodiest area of medicine.) I left the pennies where they had landed.

What does this have to do with being a Non-Consumer?

Everything.

Some people feel it's not worth the trouble to bend over for a penny or two.

Wrong. It is so worth it.

All money is precious. Valuing small amounts of money is directly connected to paying attention to life's small expenditures. And it's the small outlays of money that you have the most control over.

It matters. It all matters.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

I think that might have to be the official motto for Coin-girl. Now, does anyone have a cape I can borrow?


Katy Wolk-Stanley

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without."


HP Link

MilkmanDan

Cool. My parents would say the same thing about me, spent much of my child hood scouring the ground for dropped coins. Even found a few bills!

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." >>



i may have missed the jist of your post, but i gotta say this one here made me laugh the most
.

johnny9434

i scan the ground as well. kinda picked that up metal detecting many years ago. its a good habit to get into for you never know

DorkGirl

ColonelJessup

Even though (or possibly especially because) I'm on Medicare, I consider anything less than a quarter that I don't pick up to potentially be a lot cheaper than my co-pay. Perhaps considered as payment on an insurance premium.

LochNESS

I love it. Reminds me of my youth. There came a time when I stopped picking them up, leaving them instead for the homeless or needy. But it used to be a real thrill finding dimes and quarters. Once I found a $20 bill. Don't recall anything larger but I'm old so it's possible

ibzman350

I still have every coin and bill I've found for the last 7 years.






this is 5 years worth.



Herb

LochNESS

Nice! I used to keep my pennies in a water cooler jug in my closet That thing filled up faster than I could grow! But I used pocket change in addition to found change aka roadkill.

ricko

I always pick up change I see on the ground...... I did as a kid and still do today. Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin

Change is good.
Enough of it and one understands the concept of "precious metal".

piecesofme

Great story and pic from Herb also, that's cool!

(I am a labor and delivery nurse, which is about the bloodiest area of medicine.)

ewww. You just brought back a bad memory of the worst smell that has ever entered my nostrils. Being able to experience the birth of our daughter was maybe the best blessing i've experienced to date...but the smell of it all! I had blocked that part out until reading that. Now you've made me gag again just remebering that smell There's not a gagging icon or I would've used it lol.