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<p>[QUOTE="SmokinJoe, post: 3056861, member: 77523"]When I was about 10-12 years old, I would go to the neighborhood laundromat almost every day...There was a cigarette, newspaper, ect store right next to the laundromat and I would stop there first and buy some gum...I would start chewing gum as I went to retrieve my wooden stick that I always hid in between the laundromat and the cig/gum store. Once I had my stick I would go into the laundromat, take the chewed gum out of my mouth and stick it on the end of my stick...<b>I was all set!</b>...Now I would look in between and under the machines for coins that people would drop...When I saw one I would reach down with my stick and get the coin stuck to the gum on my stick and pull it out..I don't remember ever walking out of there with no change...I did pretty good that day and walked home counting my change.. my neighbor saw me with change in my hands and called me over to his house.. He took me into his basement and my mouth dropped wide open as I was looking at huge glass bottles all over his basement floor, shelves, counters...All of them filled with coins...Most of them cents. He asked me what coin do I like best and I told him pennies....He then went over to one huge bottle and took out a handful of wheat cents and told me to come over to where he was and put both my hands out...I stuffed my coins into my pants pockets and did just what he said....He then filled both my hands with wheat cents and told me," Take that home and when you find a wheat penny, save it!!" That's it....I was hooked...Been saving wheat cents every since. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SmokinJoe, post: 3056861, member: 77523"]When I was about 10-12 years old, I would go to the neighborhood laundromat almost every day...There was a cigarette, newspaper, ect store right next to the laundromat and I would stop there first and buy some gum...I would start chewing gum as I went to retrieve my wooden stick that I always hid in between the laundromat and the cig/gum store. Once I had my stick I would go into the laundromat, take the chewed gum out of my mouth and stick it on the end of my stick...[B]I was all set![/B]...Now I would look in between and under the machines for coins that people would drop...When I saw one I would reach down with my stick and get the coin stuck to the gum on my stick and pull it out..I don't remember ever walking out of there with no change...I did pretty good that day and walked home counting my change.. my neighbor saw me with change in my hands and called me over to his house.. He took me into his basement and my mouth dropped wide open as I was looking at huge glass bottles all over his basement floor, shelves, counters...All of them filled with coins...Most of them cents. He asked me what coin do I like best and I told him pennies....He then went over to one huge bottle and took out a handful of wheat cents and told me to come over to where he was and put both my hands out...I stuffed my coins into my pants pockets and did just what he said....He then filled both my hands with wheat cents and told me," Take that home and when you find a wheat penny, save it!!" That's it....I was hooked...Been saving wheat cents every since. :)[/QUOTE]
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