Another person asked a question about finding coins on the ground all the time. I realized I do to. Are we so rich, that we can throw pennies and nickles away? Why do people do this? We are so wasteful!
2007-08-03 06:33:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Dear Bunny,
I live in America and saw that working for someone else would never get me out of debt. I cleaned out a pickle jar, cut a hole in the top and started filling it with change from my paycheck and any loose change I found throughout the week. I opened a business account with that rolled change. Everyone thought I was crazy. I continued to collect all change that I found and now, two years later, I own my own small business and it is just now starting to show a profit.
What I'm trying to say is...Thank you all who thought their change worthless or who accidentally dropped theirs. It has been put to good use and my family is so grateful!
In answer to your question...Unfortunately, there are those who are wasteful. I'm not one of them. Why do they do what they do? Sometimes it's laziness, sometimes they see coins as worthless and sometimes it's just stupidity. Well, I'm one of those who are not rich. But, with the loose change that I continue to find and my growing business, my pickle jar can then be turned into a charity fund for the red cross. The red cross helped us once when we went through a house fire and I will never forget them!
So, any who prefer not their change, it will go to better uses than on the ground if I run across it, trust me!
2007-08-03 08:01:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As for finding the "chump change" on the street. Keep it. Over the summer you will find that at community swimming pools, parents give kids change to put in their swim trunks and it falls out into the pool. Consider yourself a good Samaritan in taking it because that change could clog up the pool drain.
And it all adds up over the summer. You can collect up to $20 in quarters, dimes, nickles and pennies.
The most frequently found coin is a penny. All over the city streets, pennies are everywhere. People get them as change for small items and toss the penny away. That adds up too.
2007-08-04 05:24:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw pennies away. Cash transactions are rare anymore. I rarely even go to the store, except for groceries and home repair. I probably don't get more than a dozen pennies per week. What, am I going to save them up so I can have an extra $1.44 by the end of the year? We could mostly get rid of the penny problem if tax was included in the purchase price. I Canada, most items are priced in 25 cent increments and tax is included, so you rarely end up with nickles or dimes either.
2016-04-01 16:11:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree completely. I don't it's just the United States, I think it's the majority of Westernized countries. I, however, keep all my change and put it in a 'piggy bank' and cash it at the end of the year.
2007-08-03 07:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Austrian Theorist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, pennies & nickles really don't matter to most Americans.It's just spare change.
2007-08-03 09:08:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Need you even ask? We MUST be rich. Americans will buy bottled water even though better water is available from the tap for free.
2007-08-03 06:42:52 · answer #6 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We won't be for long, so rich a country, however, we will probably always be the most wasteful.
2007-08-03 07:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by jpnkc74 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its more people who loses money, or someone who doesn't want to tear their wallet with all the change like mine...
2007-08-03 06:41:17 · answer #8 · answered by **AnGeLbOy** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well people ACCIDENTALLY drop them on the ground! Not purposedly, if someone did that on purpose then that is just stupid.
2007-08-03 06:41:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋