[design219]

Or would it take a nickel to bend you over?
Or a dime?
A quarter?

[richwig83]

Im not sure of this foreign currency you refer too ( ;-) ), but I doubt id pick up anything less than 50p

[phantomdragonz]

depends on it's shininess™

-Zach

[smacintush]

At work they like to epoxy quarters to the floor and watch people try to pick them up. They think it's hilarious.

I don't usually bother unless it's $5 or more.

[Peter]

i'd bend over for small change

[LegendaryPinkOx]

This would make a good poll but, absolutely I would! Those things add up. I love it when I find a penny on the ground and then at work somebody leaves four pennies in the leave a penny, take a penny cup, because then I have a nickle. Typically during a 7 hour shift I'll make ¢75 out of the take a penny cup (thats enoughto buy a fruit pie!). But My record is $4 (awesome). And I only take pennies for myself out of there if there's more than ¢5 worth. Since cigarretes are $3.96 here alot of people want to just give me $4 and not deal with the four pennies.

I work at a convenience store. Thank you, come again!

[Ghoser777]

Originally Posted by Peter 

i'd bend over for small change

Niiiiiice.

[design219]

Originally Posted by LegendaryPinkOx 

This would make a good poll

Thought about it, but I don't think that many of you actually participate in them. Or maybe you do. Hmmm, might need to do a poll to find out.

Anyway, I don't care about statistics, more interested in comments.

[mem chick]

Simply because I live in a downtown area that has a lot of homeless. I figure they can use that money more than me. I did walk passed a ten dollar bill about two weeks or so ago and I looked at it, thought about it, but decided against it. While I passed it, another man heading towards me saw it and picked it up right away. Was he homeless? I don't know. But less fortunate then me, yes.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by design219 

Or would it take a nickel to bend you over?

You'd bend over for a nickel? I think you need to set your standards a bit higher

[analogika]

I just picked up a 1¢ coin on the sidewalk this morning.

For good luck.

[Shaddim]

At home I pick up all coins, otherwise they get trapped in the vacuum or scuff the floors. If I'm out and about I'll stop for a quarter.

[sek929]

Quarter and up.

I usually fling pennies around if I get them in change.

[torsoboy]

I would stop for a nickel.

[aristotles]

Outside of the home, I'd bend down if I dropped a quarter but I would not bother doing so for found money unless it was a two dollar coin or paper money.

[Buckaroo]

Nickel and up. I don't leave extra pennies in those penny cups at stores, but I have never taken one out either.

[SpaceMonkey]

Depends on what it's sitting in. But usually yes.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by analogika 

I just picked up a 1¢ coin on the sidewalk this morning.

For good luck.

If you bend over for a penny for good luck you must really need it.

[Railroader]

I'll pick up any coin, but just because I hate littler.

Usually I point out the coins to my 4 year old and let her pick them up, it really makes her day and brightens her up to find money.

[design219]

Originally Posted by analogika 

I just picked up a 1¢ coin on the sidewalk this morning.

For good luck.

You know it's only good luck if it is heads up, right?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by design219 

You know it's only good luck if it is heads up, right?

What ? Bending over for tails don't count ?


Ok, I think we have about exhausted all possible innuendos. I think Dakar can kill it now

-t

[FireWire]

Originally Posted by Railroader 

Usually I point out the coins to my 4 year old and let her pick them up, it really makes her day and brightens her up to find money.

Good idea! As for me, it depends on the circumstances.. I will never stop for a coin unless it's at least a dollar, but I may pick up a quarter if I'm standing in line with nothing else to do, and if the floor is pretty clean.

What I do from time to time, however, is loiter around the bar when the danceclub closes at 3 AM.. I routinely find many 1$ and 2$ that patrons drop while paying for drinks when drunk

[turtle777]

I talked to a coworker once about this. He had an interesting take on it. He said he would NEVER pick up money from the street, no matter how much. His conviction is that it is NOT his money, so he has no business picking it up and keeping it. He said he did not want to interfere with the owner maybe coming back and looking for it.

Sounded strange to me at first, but made me think. Yes, it's quite idealistic, because for sure, someone else will pick it up. But I like that he has a firm principle and that he's sticking to it.

-t

[design219]

Wow, never expected this to be a moral issue.

[abe]

Originally Posted by analogika 

I just picked up a 1¢ coin on the sidewalk this morning.

For good luck.

We're in sync (if not in Zinc) on this. (The primary metal used in the minting of pennies is Zinc, since 1982.)

"Find a penny, pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck!"

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by design219 

Wow, never expected this to be a moral issue.

Me neither, but it makes sort of sense. His thing is: it's not mine, I don't touch it.
For sure, if everyone thought like this, we wouldn't have a lot of the problems we have today.

-t

[analogika]

Originally Posted by design219 

You know it's only good luck if it is heads up, right?

So it's not good luck at all here, where we don't have heads on our Euro-cent pieces?

[Shaddim]

Correct. Europeans are **** out of luck.

[chris v]

I lost $150.00 cash on vacation one time -- I'm slowly finding it back -- 2 $20.00's a wad of $1.00's and a whole lot of nickels, dimes, and quarters later, I'm probably still nearly $100.00 from balancing out. Sometimes I'll pick up a penny -- depends on whether I'm in a hurry or not.

[ghporter]

Most of the time I do pick up abandoned change, whether it's a penny or a quarter or whatever. I usually wind up saving about $100 or so in change over a year, with a good chunk of it coming from anonymous donations such as abandoned change. It's impossible to quantify how little effort it takes to pick up a penny, and the action is actually good for you because it involves a number of important movements that help you maintain your balance, strength, flexibility, and manual dexterity. I'll never be "too good" or "too well off" or too anything else to just pick up lost change.

[moonmonkey]

I thought penny was a British unit of currency?

[Eriamjh]

I'll take all your loose change, please.

If it's worth getting as change, it's worth picking up. Who are you people, Bill Gates?

Last week, I found a penny on top of the u-check-out and $1 in the change return. My cupcakes cost me 5 cents.

[Doofy]

Would you pick up a penny?

Only if she was attractive, slim, fun and promised to learn how to capitalise her name.

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by analogika 

So it's not good luck at all here, where we don't have heads on our Euro-cent pieces?

Um, many Greek Euro coins have people on them, as do several other countries' coins. So they do have a "heads" side.

[Atomic Rooster]

Pick up a penny?

Yup, well sometimes. If it's really dirty no I don't. After I pick it up I whip it, I whip it good. Haven't heard anyone yelp yet.

[Buckaroo]

I think we need to do away with the penny. It's a long time coming.

Round everything up or down to the nearest nickel.

Pennies cost more to make than what their worth.

[red rocket]

Of course I would. That stuff adds up. Besides, I occasionally lose some coins myself, got to at least break even.

Related question: Those public fountains that tourists always throw change into, is it okay if I pick up that money? I once saw a film where this bloke got chased by some security guards or cops for doing just that, but I can't really think of a logical reason not to. It's not like it goes to charity, or anything, is it?

[design219]

Originally Posted by red rocket 

It's not like it goes to charity, or anything, is it?

I don't know about government maintained park fountains, but the local mall has a fountain with a small sign with the charity the coins go to. I'm sure I've seen others with charities named before.

I would bet they are more supportive of the fellow who cleans it however.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Buckaroo 

I think we need to do away with the penny. It's a long time coming.

No! Having a unit of measure of which there cannot be one would make my head explode. Seriously, they can't do that to me.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by Buckaroo 

I think we need to do away with the penny. It's a long time coming.

Round everything up or down to the nearest nickel.

Pennies cost more to make than what their worth.

Or we could just make them out of something other than copper. Anyway, this is kind of a red herring. If you think that the amount it costs to make a penny is inherently tied to how much it’s worth, then you might as well go back to the gold or silver standard.

[ghporter]

We don't need to do away with the penny. We need a reformulated penny that lasts longer than the current penny. Look at it-if the current penny lasted longer, the Mint wouldn't need to replace it in circulation as much and the "cost of ownership" of the coin would fall. Also, at this moment metal prices are screwy-we can blame China for taking the lazy route and buying scrap instead of mining their own vast resources of EVERYTHING for this particular issue-so noting that at this moment it costs more than 1¢ to make a penny is really irrelevant. On the whole, it's always been significantly less expensive to make the penny than the penny has been worth.

I'd support a zinc penny, a steel penny with a zinc coating (like the sandwich design of the quarter), or any other base-metal composition for the coin. But we need the coin. Losing the penny would be a defacto change in the monetary basis of our economy-a devaluing of the currency by as much as 4¢ on the dollar. That may not sound like much, but it adds up. Like those pennies I keep collecting.

[design219]

A zinc penny... maybe we would have fewer colds.

At least those of us who would pick one up.

Wait, picking up a penny is a good way to catch a cold.

Money is so dirty.

[richwig83]

Originally Posted by design219 

A zinc penny... maybe we would have fewer colds.

At least those of us who would pick one up.

Wait, picking up a penny is a good way to catch a cold.

Money is so dirty.

All pennys in the UK made after 1992 are copper plated steel!!!

[residentEvil]

screw pennies. how about unopened candy? like individually wrapped hard candies?

[hayesk]

Sure. Then I dump my spare change in the charity cups at store checkouts.

[alligator]

Yes, I'd pick up a penny. In fact, I'd pick up a billion of them. Then I'd be rich.

[Chuckit]

If you make more than minimum wage, it would be a much more efficient way to get rich just to work a little more. Even in a large room with pennies scattered all about, it would be hard to make more than $10/hour or so doing that.

[Buckaroo]

Originally Posted by alligator 

Yes, I'd pick up a penny. In fact, I'd pick up a billion of them. Then I'd be rich.

That's a lot of pennies.




The MegaPenny Project | One Billion Pennies

[abbaZaba]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

It's impossible to quantify how little effort it takes to pick up a penny, and the action is actually good for you because it involves a number of important movements that help you maintain your balance, strength, flexibility, and manual dexterity.

what you just said here seems ridiculous to me. do you seriously consider bending over important to maintaing balance, strength, flexibility, AND dexterity? is that like a workout? picking up pennies?

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by alligator 

Yes, I'd pick up a penny. In fact, I'd pick up a billion of them. Then I'd be rich.

That's not rich. That's just out of poverty.

(I'm thinking of a newspaper column a while back, in which they defined "rich". Less than $40m net worth was classed as "beri beri, scurvy, etc..".