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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 702267, member: 4552"]I constantly use change and single dollar bills. I go to flea markets all the time and usually 3 a week. At flea markets everything is for haggling so a smart person has lots of exact change. You can't really tell a seller that is asking $5 for something and then you say you only have $4, he accepts and you pull out a $10? That just doesn't work. I usually have at least $50 in singles and fives on me all the time plus a pocket full of quarters, dimes and nickels. Many dealers also appreciate it when you pay with exact amounts so they too can give out exact change and they usually give me a break in prices when I do that. Today was a typical example at a flea market. A seller had lots of all types of coins. I purchased a Flying Eagle Cent, Liberty Head Half and 4 Walker Halves. He wanted $40 but all I said I had was $34 so he took that. I made sure I was able to produce exactly $34. Although they were worth much more than what he wanted, that's flea marketing. I use change all the time for tipping at restaurants since waitresses have told me many times they really need change at the cash registers. HOWEVER, I just can't get anyone to take or want those baby sized dollars.  On commuter trains I've already been told not to hand a conductor one of those or else. Think he was just exagerating but who knows.[/QUOTE]