Do You Still Pick Up Pennies

I pick up everything except parking lot worn Zincolns as there just not worth it.
Reed.

 

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I sometimes have bad luck anyway, at least im a penny richer with bad luck. hehe. heard storys of ole timers who bought part of their house from saving pennies. dunno.

 

If I am sitting down

 

I pick them up most of the time, but the ones that have been through the wringer basically I will leave behind.

 

Yes. I have many that are road kill and parking lot rashed to the point of unrecognizable. I have even picked up some pieces of cents (not sure how they got cut up).

 

Yup! I toss that sucker right in my shoe

 

I do. My father always picked up every coin he saw on the ground and put them in a cup then counted them at the end of the year. Usually he got $30-$40 every year. So it is really hard for me to walk by a coin and not pick it up.

 

Always, college years were pretty lean, even first few years post- grad, can't tell you how many times Ive paid for stuff all in change including pennies. Any I find on the ground now, go into my cars change holder, I use it to buy slim Jim or gum once I have enough saved up.

 

Yes I pick up all change I find no matter what that's why I have 20 bucks worth of pennies rolled up for lol

 

I look at it as getting paid to exercise.

 

ONLY if they are not shiny, bright, new ones.

 

Sorry, but this reminds me of a joke from a comedian back in the Sixties. I've forgotten his name, but his humor was southern rural humor, Nawth C'lina, I think.

Cousin William had heard that there were plenty of job opportunities up in Chicago, so he took his life savings to buy a Greyhound Bus ticket. Within a day or two, Will gets a job as a bus boy and is pleasantly astounded when he finds that the waitresses in the restaurant share their tips with him for cleaning their tables. He sends a postcard to his cousin back home. He wrote: "Charles Lewis, you need to be gettin' yourself up here to Chicago. There's so much money up here it's fallin' off the trees."

Charles takes heed of the message and gets his own Greyhound Bus ticket. As Charles gets off the bus in the Chicago terminal, he spies a $100 bill shoved against the curb, and says to hisself, "I'll pick you up tomorrow, I ain't gonna work on my first day in Chicago."

 

I usually seem them laying around the Caseys store in town here, and I pick them up put them in the change tray in the store.. for people to use... if there short a few cents...

 

So, you must be a penny loafer!

 

Yes I still do. I have more luck picking up pennies than I do women.

 

Always, always, always. Dirty or not. Heads or tails. My family is sometimes embarrassed (especially once at Valley Fair in Minnesota when I got down on the ground and looked underneath the food carts; that was quite a haul that day ). Never met a coin on the ground I didn't like.

Steve

 

About 25 yrs ago my friends and I were boating on Folsom Lake near Sacramento and one of them spotted a penny on the beach. The lake was very low in Summer after several drought years so the beach was well into normal lake level. He picked it up and said WOW...a 1911-S! I looked it over and it was in XF cond. with great eye appeal. Yes, I almost always pick them up.

 

Hey, why not do your part and help keep the world free from litter?

 

Always picking any and (ALL) coins FOG or otherwise. Our local Walmart “Coinstar” has always been rather nice to me. I can’t think of a single time I walked past it going to Walmart and not receiving (Free) change? Just yesterday I plucked 14 one cents, 1 dime, 3 coins from Jamaica and a token from Sears Store. Never really understood why people leave perfectly good change behind.
Have a Blessed Day all

 

100% pure profit-if you don't get run over by a truck while you are bent over. Filled up a five gallon jug when I was teaching high school.