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Do you pick up pennies or toss them?

tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
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I tend to toss them. My wife would cross the street to pick one up. Sometimes I have a little fun with her and will walk ahead - then I get hit once she figures it out.

And no penny vs cent lectures. Ben Franklin called them pennies so that is good enough for me

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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    I attempt to always pick up money on the ground, especially cents.
    Tom

  • ponderitponderit Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll always pick any change up that I see. For one it's still money but also I see at a symbol of our country... that's what tends to motivate me to pick up the cents
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  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    pick it up! I was out to lunch with a buddy last week and found to dimes on the ground while sitting at our table. I saw another coin under another table but he got his iphone out and threatened to take a picture of me picking up change and post it on my facebook page image I let that one go.
  • jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭
    I pick up cents, look at the date, look for errors and varieties, and then if they are worthless I often throw them back on the ground.

    Larger denominations are always kept.
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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,948 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Always!!! image

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  • keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
    always pick up
    "If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins." - Patty Oswalt
  • CEOGBOSECEOGBOSE Posts: 377
    I always pick it up.
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  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭
    Always...for every cent I pick up, thats one cent closer to my first million.

    Now I just need to find about 99,999,900 more of them.
    I'll come up with something.
  • tander123tander123 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭
    Both! Pick them up and toss them in my change jar. If they are copper, they go in the copper jar.

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  • bestmrbestmr Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭
    Always. Haven't been lucky enough to find a wheatie yet. Closest I've come was a narly 1959-D that was half buried.
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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭
    I saw a nickel on the ground this weekend, and bent down to pick it up, and there were three pennies near by. I put them in my pocket and then gave them to the Salvation Army bell ringer later in the day.

    -Paul
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  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    I love tossing them on the ground! I'm leaving good luck for other people image
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  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭
    Doh....where are you located? I figure, if I follow you around for a few years, not only will I be ever so closer to my first million, I'll have tons of good luck (I can use it!)!! lol
    I'll come up with something.
  • InternetJunkyInternetJunky Posts: 2,329 ✭
    I always pick it up...free money.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Always!!! image

    image >>

    WoW what a metal detector I need to get one like that. image


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  • mikeygmikeyg Posts: 1,002 ✭







    always pick them up.I average about 100.00 a year.This year I have found many wheat cents in the 30 s and the 50 s some red!!
  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    I just wonder when people became so affluent they could afford to throw money away. When I was a wee little melvin289 one could get 2 MaryJanes (peanut butter candy) for 1¢.

    Ron
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  • golfer72golfer72 Posts: 3,588
    If they look like that I pick them up. image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I always pick them up.... found money is good money. Cheers, RickO
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Neither. I just ignore them.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>always pick them up.I average about 100.00 a year.This year I have found many wheat cents in the 30 s and the 50 s some red!! >>



    You find 10,000 cents every year?image

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it's a generational thing. Old folks like me pick them up while young folks don't bother. How many of you guys pick them up only when they are heads up which will bring you good luck while leaving the tails up cent where they lay?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Ben Franklin called them pennies so that is good enough for me >>



    Considering that Ben was a British citizen most of his life and used British coins most of his life, it's understandable that he called them pennies. Don't forget that he died 3 years before the mint started producing cents.








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  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I toss the copper cents in a bucket and it getting heavy!
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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    I pick up all the pennies I see on the ground.
    If I make a purchase though, and have a penny coming back, I always tell the cashier to "keep the change".
    I know they're low paid, and really appreciate the gesture.
    Makes me feel real good bestowing wealth on the impoverished, too.

    Ray
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I pick up all the pennies I see on the ground.
    If I make a purchase though, and have a penny coming back, I always tell the cashier to "keep the change".
    I know they're low paid, and really appreciate the gesture.
    Makes me feel real good bestowing wealth on the impoverished, too.

    Ray >>



    You are so generous.image




    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Ed1840Ed1840 Posts: 355
    Pick them up
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Pennies from heaven , are lucky.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage

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