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Is a penny worth picking up?
Yes, I'll pick up a penny. 12 (52.2%)
No, but I'll pick up a nickle. 1 (4.3%)
It's gotta be a dime. 3 (13%)
A quarter 5 (21.7%)
I don't pick up coins; it's gotta be a dollar 0 (0%)
$5 1 (4.3%)
$10 0 (0%)
$20 0 (0%)
$50 0 (0%)
$100 1 (4.3%)
Total Votes: 23
Will you pick up a penny?
Topic Started: Apr 3 2006, 05:53 AM (802 Views)
kenny
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When you see a penny on the ground; will you bend down and pick it up?

What about a nickle?
A dime?
A Quarter?
A Buck?
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
If it's in a urinal I'll peel off a 50 or 100 and toss it in. You don't think I am going in there after a penny do you.
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Improviso
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kenny
Apr 3 2006, 08:53 AM
When you see a penny on the ground will you  bend down and pick it up?

When I got back into town last night, I stopped at the gas station (even a hybrid needs some on occasion), opened the door and there on the ground was a penny. So yep, I bent down, picked it up and put it in my pocket. As a matter of fact, it's in my pocket right now. :D

(99,999 more times and I can buy Plays some more diamond studs. ;) )

(14,999 more times and I can pay for the antique sundial Plays bought the other day... or so she said. :whistle: )
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big al
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Sorry, Improv. That's 149,999 times to pay for that "expensive" antique sundial.

Big Al
Location: Western PA

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Optimistic
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I toss pennies on the ground. I despise them. I used to put pennies in a piggy bank for years, took it to one of those Coinstar machines, and got back a lousy $5.00.

Quarters and above I'll pick up, though!
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apple
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yep - absolutely
it behooves me to behold
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big al
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I pick up coins including pennies and other thing I find lying on the ground. Sometimes, I'm faced with how to discard what turns out to be junk. Is it still littering if you return an object to where it came from? I don't know, but I try to carry it until I find a trash can unless it is really repulsive.

Big Al
Location: Western PA

"jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen."
-bachophile
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Friday
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I point them out for my kids to pick up. They collect them for a charity.
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Improviso
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big al
Apr 3 2006, 09:35 AM
That's 149,999 times to pay for that "expensive" antique sundial.

I better get busy then. :D

Think of how much exercise I'll get bending over that many times. Come to think of it, if I see a penny on the floor in the mens room, i'll leave it there. ;)
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Nina
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Was anyone told that not picking up a penny was bad luck?

When I was a kid, someone said that. As a result, I can't walk past a penny. This little voice in my head says, "Don't do it..." and I'm stuck. I've been known to go back in some pretty stupid places to pick up a freaking penny. :blink:
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kenny
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Apr 3 2006, 06:46 AM
big al
Apr 3 2006, 09:35 AM
That's 149,999 times to pay for that "expensive" antique sundial.

I better get busy then. :D

Think of how much exercise I'll get bending over that many times. Come to think of it, if I see a penny on the floor in the mens room, i'll leave it there. ;)

Afraid to bend over in the men's room? :whome:
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kenny
Apr 3 2006, 09:47 AM
Afraid to bend over in the men's room? :whome:

:yes:

;) :D
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
I'd love to see a study on this (yep, science to kill the fun once again).

Somehow simulate how much change you could reasonably acquire if you picked up EVERYTHING you saw on the ground for one year.

And then compare this to the rise in cost of living, inflation, gas prices, etc., and see if it really would make any kind of a dent.

I'm guessing it wouldn't make much of a dent at all, unless you melted all the change down and re-cast it as a hammer.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Nina
Apr 3 2006, 09:46 AM
Was anyone told that not picking up a penny was bad luck?

I never heard it as *bad luck*. I've always heard it was *good luck* to pick up a penny.

Even if it isn't true, why tempt fate?
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
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kenny
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Finding a penny on the ground head-side-up represents good fortune in your future. However, good luck may be hard to come by if Congress votes to cease penny production entirely.

I knew a guy in high school who would actually take change out of his pocket and throw the pennies in the trash.
To this day I am convinced that he would be a millionaire if he had only kept the discarded pennies.
When asked why he chose to sort his change this way, he replied that he thought pennies were useless. When did money become useless?

Anti-penny activists argue the penny has become worthless and is not cost - effective to produce.
They also believe that rounding purchases to the nearest nickel is the answer.
However, this means a two-liter Diet Coke now costs $1 instead of 99 cents. I fail to see how this is more cost effective for consumers.

There are many arguments against the penny. Vending machines don’t accept them.
If you go to purchase something with a bag full of pennies, you will most likely be escorted from the store by large men saying they want nothing to do with you or your pennies.
If the vendor is nice enough to allow you to pay for the item only using pennies, the people behind you in line will eventually form a mob and escort you from the store. They may even throw the pennies at you.


Still, there is hope for the little copper coin. Groups such as Americans for Common Cents have jumped on the save-the- penny bandwagon. This group says the rounding system initiated by the penny-haters would rip people off.
Coinstar, a company that makes coin-exchange machines, conducted a survey, revealing that 65 percent of people polled favored keeping the penny in circulation.

Jim Kolbe is leading the fight against the penny. Kolbe was instrumental in instituting the dollar coin featuring Sacagawea.
I think we know how well that went over. He argues that penny production costs more than the coin’s actual worth.
This statement has turned into a heated debate between the United States Mint and Kolbe.
"There’s no profit whatsoever from making pennies, though the U.S. Mint will probably disagree," said Neena Moorjani, a spokesperson for Kolbe’s cause, in a statement to CNN.

The U.S. Mint does go on record saying each penny costs about 0.81 of a cent to manufacture, and it is obviously worth 1 cent. The mint also collects about $24 million a year profit from the penny.
People in favor of eliminating the penny contend there are many additional costs associated with the penny.
A spokesperson for the Coin Coalition said that in the long run, consumers pay for wrapping charges, lost store productivity and additional wages. Stores actually pay 60 cents for each roll of 50 pennies.

The most obvious economic effect resulting of penny removal would be inflationary pressures. Positioning the nickel as the lowest denomination could create public anxiety over high economic inflation.
Raymond Lombra, professor of economics at Penn State University, said to a congressional committee in 1990 that consumers would be spending an additional $600 million annually if cash sales were rounded to the nearest nickel.
Many proponents of penny elimination say the coin’s demise would not be noticed. However, if prices rise, the Consumer Price Index raises.
This will trigger further rises in many public and private sectors costs, which are tied to the CPI.

About six in 10 American’s would be confused at the register if cashiers rounded purchases to the nearest nickel.
For example, you go to the counter and have no idea how much you are going to be spending because the new system relies on the cashiers’ ability to round numbers.
This should go over well at Wal-Mart and Food Lion.

Imagine standing in line at the grocery store. Not only will consumers be forced to deal with the woman who swears the can of lima beans cost 29 cents, not the 30 cents it rang up, but the same woman will bicker over whether the cashier should be rounding up or down.
I think I will start doing all of my shopping online, thank you.

Also, a system based on rounding would target those who are least able to afford the extra pennies because low-income families make a larger number of small cash purchases.

The current coin system should remain intact if it appears to meet the consumers’ wants and needs. For example, in Britain, Canada and Japan, coins are produced at a price greater than their face value.
However, they remain the means of exchange because consumers prefer them.
Basically, the debate boils down to a contest of the calculators due to differing mathematical analysis each side has formulated.
The future looks good for Mr. Lincoln, and the U.S. Mint has already produced over 1 billion pennies this year.
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kenny
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Coinstar, a company that makes coin-exchange machines, conducted a survey, revealing that 65 percent of people polled favored keeping the penny in circulation.


Hmmm, let's see.
Wouldn't Coinstar go bankrupt without if pennys were abandoned?
How could the "journalist" even include this "study"?
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The best way I've found to get rid of pennies is to use them on toll roads, at the exact change booth.

If a road is going to inconvenience me by making me stop at a toll booth, the least I can do is inconvenience them by making them count 50 pennies. It makes the toll a little less painful. (It's one of my passive-aggressive ticks. :D )
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Optimistic
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Ugh, no thanks. With all the tolls in NJ, you'd never get anywhere if you paid in pennies.
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kenny
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Those machines that charge you to convert your change into bills makes me mad.

Well, not mad really, I just don't use them.

I guess you could think of it as paying for a service or a convienence, but it just bugs me.
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apple
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if you check with your recyclers.. sometimes the price of copper is worth more in bulk that in individual cents..

-(mr. apple recycles pennies sometimes.. that why he saves them)
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Optimistic
Apr 3 2006, 10:08 AM
Ugh, no thanks.  With all the tolls in NJ, you'd never get anywhere if you paid in pennies.

Can I infer from this that *sticking it to the man* is not high up on your priority list?

It's actually a hobby of mine.
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Optimistic
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Yeah, I guess I'm just not old and bitter enough yet. Give me a few more years ^_^
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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kenny
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So I can make money saving up pennies and selling the copper ones for more than one cent? :hair: :hair:

This reminds me of 1964 when silver use was discontinued.
People started saving the silver nickles and quarters.


This link says the coppper in a pre-1982 penny is worth 1.45 cents.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-re...l/s_418275.html

That's my two cents worth (which is worth three).
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Quarter. Minimum.

...actually saw a quarter on the ground at the DC United soccer game yesterday. It was at the bottom of a near-empty plastic beer cup on the ground...so I didn't pick it up.

A penny, nickel, and dime...all aren't worth the time, nor does the financial payout exceed the risk of getting some FTD. (Financially Transmitted Disease) :D

Aqua, says I'm a germaphobe, but that's just because I complain when he sticks his finger in my milk when I'm eating breakfast.
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Apr 3 2006, 11:27 AM
Aqua, says I'm a germaphobe, but that's just because I complain when he sticks his finger in my milk when I'm eating breakfast.

:lol:
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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