I read that it's not worth Bill Gate's time to pick up a $100 bill. I'm a really cheap guy and even I won't pick up a nickel or a penny. I'm pick up a dime. Quarter fer shure. Dollar? I'd push a kid in the street. $10 bill? I'd push my own kid in the street. $100 bill? My own kid in front of a bus. Just joshing about the bus. Nothing bigger than a Buick for the $100... Anyway, what's the smallest money you would bend over to pick up?
I actually throw pennies out. Picking one up requires more work than necessary, and who knows what germ-infested little brat dropped it in the first place. I'd go for the dollar. -Chris
this isnt a post to find out who is going to bend over in front of you is it? me= I throw pennies at a co-worker (FZ) who then runs all around the shop for them. Quite funny to watch a 50 y.o. chase a penny. Me, I am like the doc, I pick up .10¢. and higher.
LOL...! i used to pick up everything i found; pennies, Canadian pennies, slugs - if it LOOKED like money, i picked it up... Now i drop pennies out of my own pocket and i'm too lazy to pick them up... Go figure.
If you spend your time looking to the streets for coinage, that means you aren't spending your time wisely. Think of an idea ie: invention, business, how to save $100/ mo on your bills, how to further your education with out quitting your job, decide what you are working for or think about RRSP's/ bonds for your kids.... ... as for Gatey mcGatermuffin' if you compare yourself to him, you may have low self esteem or will have low self esteem.
I pick up pennies. They all go in a big Jack Daniels bottle. Once a year I empty it out, and usually end up with $40-$50. (That also includes all the pennies from my pocket change everyday) Dave
In Canada we have one dollar coins we call "Loonies" (because there's a Loon on it), I MIGHT pick one up, but other change I leave for others, surely someone needs it more than me. If I drop change I'll only pick it up if I consider it littering, otherwise I'll leave it. I have this habit now at Canadian tire, when you buy something they give you what's called "Canadian Tire Money". So you buy say $20 worth of stuff and they give you paper bills worth say 25 or 50 cents. I never use it, so now I'll usually just turn to the next person in line and say "Here!" and give it to them. It's amazing how cheap you can buy a friend!
Count me in as one of the ones that throws them away. always get strange looks when I am handed my change and promptly throw the pennies into the trash can. Got sick of the way you quickly end up with hundreds of them in the bottom of your draw.
The same here. Why chase dimes into he sewer or get salt on your pants picking it up? As fot the Candian Tire money, it goes to the 1st kid I see.
If I see any money on the floor, I will pick it up. Not because I am miserly, far from it. Rather my Grandfather and mother told me that one should respect money, and if one sees money laying on the ground and ignores it, they are disrespecting money. God will look down on you and in the future you will never have any money because you felt it was "beneath" you to pick it up. This is rather annoying, I have to admit.
I pick up every cent - those cents add up, and have paid for things like gas money and a Cat Bypass Pipe......
I pass on picking up pennies. FYI, I am sure all of you will enjoy the following: PENNY DETAILS The U.S. one-cent coin is 19 millimeters in diameter and weighs 2.5 grams. The composition of the penny is 97.5% zinc and 2.5 % copper. There have been 11 different designs featured on the penny. The U.S. Mint produces over 13 billion pennies annually. There are over 130 billion one-cent coins currently in circulation. Since its beginning, the U.S. Mint has produced over 288.7 billion pennies. Lined up edge to edge, these pennies would circle the earth 137 times. The average penny lasts 25 years. The most "expensive" penny is a rare one minted in 1793. Only four are known to exist today and their worth is estimated at more than $275,000. An average of 1,040 pennies are produced every second, adding up to 30 million a day. During its early penny-making years, the U.S. Mint was so short on copper that it accepted copper utensils, nails and scrap from the public to melt down for the coins. The Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to feature a historic figure. President Abraham Lincoln has been on the penny since 1909, the 100th anniversary of his birth. The Lincoln penny was the first cent on which appeared the words "In God We Trust." Over two-thirds of all coins produced by the U.S. Mint are pennies.
Technically true, but when it's indoors and someone else will likely pick it up it falls under "whatever you do for the least of these...you do for me."
Agree with Chris here. I throw away all pennies, and don't take them if clerks give them as change. I give all the dimes and nickles in a jar per month to the house cleaner. I keep quarters tho. As far as picking up money, no I don't pick up anything, regardless of what it is. I feel picking up a $20 on the floor, that some single mom have lost, brings bad karma, and I will have to pay for it somehow. Not worth the trouble to me. If I don't earn it, it is not mine, and I live by that philosophy. $10,000 cash trade for Rachel?
