Today my girlfriend used a dime and 5 pennies to pay for something ... before I had a chance to look at them!!! No matter how many times I tell her, she still does it. Maybe finding a valuable one will get her to stop doing it lol.
that's one thing that makes me miss the old days, we use plastic for 90%, or more, of our purchases, meaning no change.
I severely doubt that. checks are not always trusted, how can you think money will be written off? That would also give credit card companies the ability to charge for everything they wanted, and debit card companies could do the same, heck, even charge you for not spending a minimum. It would make life far to complicated. have your pay sent to an account that will loose money. just saying I don't think it could work.
Well, it could have been worse. Imagine if she told you "I just spent a coin with a pretty Indian Head on it"?
Well young fella, I would say let her spend any change she has. This is NOT something to make a stand on. Girlfriends can cost you a heck of a lot more money if they are unhappy than you will ever find roll searching their change. Learning to keep your woman happy with as few trips to the jewelry store is probably the biggest way I know to save money in life. Chris
Find a completed auction of a 1969S DDO and just kind of casually show her it, making sure she sees the selling price. Maybe she'll realize the scope of her error.:smile
Think ahead, and of all the changes that have occurred just in the last century - I said "distant" future. I rarely use cash at all - just a debit card. Once they get security issues resolved with plastic, or go instead with chip implants and/or fingerprint readers or eye scans, there won't be a need for coins or paper money. I won't be around, but I'd otherwise bet that 50 or 100 years from now there will be no cash needed anymore. I guess maybe the mint might still be around, trying to sell ugly modern commemoratives at outlandish prices. The banks will rip us off one way or another.
Get two jars. Have her put the change into one jar. Then you pull change out of this jar and check it for valuable coinage. Then put the culls into the 2nd jar. Have her get change from this jar only. If this is too much work, then don't worry about it. It's not worth the **** that you could stir up otherwise. edit: Mr censor is too picky :devil:
Biometric scanners are not the way to go. Once the criminals crack the fingerprints or retina scans, and they will, what are we going to do? Change our fingers or eyes? Give me a pin I can change at will anyday.
Better yet, teach her how to cherry pick. My wife came home a few weeks ago with six wheat cents, a merc dime, and two Ikes. (She does not collect coins, by the way.)
I don't know why you should cringe at the sight of her spending her change before you've checked it. You would have better odds of having a meteorite hit your car than finding something really valuable out of circulation. If you want your girlfriend to put up with this kind of childishness, then pay her 5x face for all of her change. Chris
