I always fish the coins out of the trash can next to the coin machines. I've found some cool stuff in there including a few mercury dimes one time
If someone wants to give coins away like that then take full advantage no matter where they might be found.
US, Canada, Philippines and Germany methinks. And while I may well "abandon" leftover coins, I would not trash them but leave them somewhere. If somebody else wants to pick them up, fine ... Christian
That was a cool find and really adds meaning to the old saying of: "One Man Trash is Another Man's Treasure!
Find another credit union! Mine does not charge for counting change, because that's acting too much like a bank.
I would take them too. But on another similar note, when I am at the grocery store I am always on the hunt for scratch-off lottery tickets people leave behind. Here in NC we can log them onto the lottery site and get points to enter drawings they have. Last year I hit $500 in one of the drawings. So the other day the wife and I are at the store and I just happen to glance into this little trash can by one of the food sample thingies and there is a small stack of $20 scratch-off tickets. So never being ashamed to pick in the trash...lol...I grabbed them. Then later in the evening when I was entering them onto the lottery site one $20 ticket would not take. Low and behold, whoever bought it I guess was not paying much attention and threw away a $20 winner. Now that's way cool in my book. Always figured one of these days someone would throw away a winner. Just too bad it was not a $4 mil winner instead of $20. But I'll take the 20.
I'd grab em too I've jumped into stinking nasty dumpsters and rescued antique furniture and good old architectural salvage one of my girlfriends years ago used to cruise the streets on trash day looking for stuff she could sell one day she filled her car with Victorian porch balusters I got $800 for
at a bank near me, its policy to throw anything the machine rejects in the trash. the tellers will get fired if they are caught keeping it for themselves. Now they save everything for me in a Styrofoam cup with my name on it, mostly rocks/washers/foreign stuff, but i have gotten a good amount of ikes and other loose change
Mainebill off the subject COOL CAT! I had a blk cat for 20 years and she would walk around the block with us and our German Shepherd. I was 26 when she went, man that was a while ago.
I always check the "free penny" holders at checkouts to see if someone threw in a wheatie. I have yet find one though
Reminds me of the guy at the urinal. He spots a dime and mentions it. I say, hey now, you are not going to do that for a dime! He agrees, and says no. Then he tosses in 3 quarters, and says, but I will for 85 cents
I am glad I am not alone. I was waiting for my rental van to be vacuumed out when I saw pennies all over the ground. I picked up every single one, 31 in total. I rescued them, actually. The bonus coin on top of the pennies was a brand new scalloped Bahamian 10-cent piece.
As a follow-up to my previous post, I was cleaning out the garage of a new home I am leasing for my new job in middle Georgia. It looked like a bunch of dirty old small washers and electrical slugs laying in the bottom folds of the garage door. It turned out to be $1.10 in dimes, nickels and pennies. I gave the coins a quick wash, laid them out to dry and the coins have been rescued from a fate worse than death.
I, too, look through the trash can next to the counter. I've gotten decent stuff and even a silver Roosie or two.
I hit the motherload of "give a penny, take a penny" one time at a Stewart's Ice Cream Shoppe in Coxsackie, NY. There were three wheat cents in the cup. Scooped them up, too!
