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03-29-2010, 02:29 PM
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Picking Up Pennies
Do you pick up pennies? It seems to me that more and more people are throwing away pennies these days as I find them on a regular basis. Is a penny really so worthless to people that they think it is OK to throw them away? This concept is a bit foreign to me, so I would like to hear from anyone that does throw away their pennies why they do (and if you do, feel free to send them to me)
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03-29-2010, 03:49 PM
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Yes, i pick up pennies. I consider it good luck, but I never seem to find any!
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04-01-2010, 08:39 AM
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Yep, and everytime I do I say the little rhyme. You know, see a penny pick it up, all day long have good luck. I think that if I don't I might have bad luck! lol
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04-01-2010, 08:52 AM
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I pick them up, too. I find them all the time. Nickels and dimes, too. Hardly ever see a quarter but every now and then.
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04-01-2010, 09:14 AM
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I have a small collection of very nasty looking pennies. They seem to have been on the ground amassing filth and corrosion a long time.
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04-01-2010, 02:23 PM
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The worth of the penny you pick up can be far more than the penny itself I'm finding...
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04-01-2010, 04:21 PM
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I always pick them up. I once picked up a lost $20 and haven't had that luck in the 30 yrs. since.
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04-15-2010, 12:24 PM
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Always. Every penny counts. And now so does my 3 year old.
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05-19-2010, 12:24 PM
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I pick them up... I was behind a guy in an S series Mercedes the other day at a light. He placed his car in park, got out and picked up a coin out of the middle of the road next to the median. I was like, "Wow! No wonder he's driving that S series."
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05-19-2010, 03:37 PM
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05-20-2010, 11:46 AM
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 Not only do I pick up pennies, but I think of savingadvice every time I find one! It was this site that really drove that idea into my head many years ago. 
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05-20-2010, 02:20 PM
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My (almost) 3-year-old son just got a piggy bank, so I don't pick them up, I point them out for HIM to pick up. He gets so excited!
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05-24-2010, 08:57 PM
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Well, if it takes you one second to pick up a penny that works our to $36.00 per hour. I am older now so I only make about $18.00 per hour.
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IYQYQR Last edited by GrimJack : 05-24-2010 at 08:59 PM. Reason: Oops, my math fell off
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07-22-2010, 03:04 PM
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Little story.....
When I was about 12 years old I was with my dad waiting at Sears for my mom to come out. I glanced out the car window and saw a dime on the ground. I opened the door, walked over and picked up the dime. It was full of some slim or something so I dropped it back on the ground and went back to the car without it. My dad asked me what I did with the coin I just found. After I told him what had happened and what I did with it. He took my $5.00 a week allowance away for a month. I always pick them up.
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07-22-2010, 03:33 PM
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My wife, my daughter and I always pick up any money we see on the ground, we even go looking for it! My wife is a manager at a movie theater, and she finds money every night cleaning the theaters--she usually finds a couple dollars in change, but on numerous occasions she has found 10 and 20 dollar bills!!
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07-22-2010, 03:36 PM
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This is my hobby. I think everyone that throws pennies away. They are contributing to my dd college/car/house fund. lol
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Nickels and above are game though!
