How much money, in pennies, is lying on the streets?
My daughter once started collecting the change she saw lying on sidewalks and the street, when she was very small and did not yet get an allowance. Within 2 weeks, she had collected $20. That was over 20 years ago. And it wasn't just pennies -- she found nickles, dimes, and even a few quarters! If you want to know how many pennies are in a number of dollars, just multiply times 100, because there are 100 pennies in each dollar. That's how many. But it would cost a fortune to send all them heavy pennies to Washington. If they want to bail out the economy, let them quit minting them ridiculous pennies! Nobody wants them anyhoo! They just weigh down the ol' wallet. So, call a moratorium on it, and next year, declare that banks are calling them in. Give a paper dollar for every 100 pennies you give the bank, to get them out of circulation. Then after one more year, re-mint them with Lincoln on 'em as before but something new on the back, say a turkey to be all-American. Call them the new dollar coin! Ta-da! Economy saved, dollar coin created, penny done away with, I am the greatest. Whaddaya say?
I keep finding pennies in my new house....everywhere...all the time and?
Hi We moved into a new house a couple of weeks ago and since then I have been finding pennies constantly. All over the house even when I have just vacumed. I pick them up and place them in my little boy's bankie but they just keep appearing. On occasion I have found 2p coins too but don't know where they are coming from. I have found a couple in the street (which isn't really an unusual occurance as most people don't find them valuable enough to pick up when dropped) but it's the ones in the house that perplex me. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Indigo xxx
Rhonda has $1.35 in nickels and dimes in her pocket. If she has six more dimes than nickels which equation can?
Rhonda has $1.35 in nickels and dimes in her pocket. If she has six more dimes than nickels which equation can be used to determine x the number of nickels she has
Why do Jews pick up pennies?
Somewhat ironically, I believe that there IS something of an obligation in Judaism to pick up a coin if you see one on the ground (though I may be wrong). I recall discussing it with someone else when I bent over to pick up a nickle that I found on the ground. My friend told me that a Jew shouldn't just pass over a coin or money lying on the ground, because....well to be honest I can't remember the exact reason 100%, but I will give you 2 possibilities, though it gets a bit complicated to explain it since I can't remember it completely. 1. By passing over it, you're like waving away money, even if it's just a penny, that God is practically intending for you to have; why? see answer #2 lol. If not so as to have some pocket change, at least so that you can give it to tzedaka/charity (which is a thing that every Jew does regularly, btw, but not quite the way the dictionary defines charity....). 2. If you pass over money, you're practically saying that you don't need it, because you're (more or less) "too good" for a small coin like that, but you have to realize that everything you get is from God, and...well...now I'm going into the reason for why we give "charity". Anyhow, you get the main, basic idea, I hope. This may not be the exact reason, but the idea is there, you know? So it's got nothing to do with being stingy or greedy (in fact Jews in general are known to be very generous), but due to more spiritual reasons, and for reasons that are opposite than what the stereotypes indicate.
If you see a penny on the ground do you pick it up?
I had a friend named Ty. He was one of those people who you just knew wasn't long for this world, or necessarily of this world. He was slight and slim, very fair complected, with a mass of dark hair that he kept fairly short. Were you to catch a glimpse of him in the woods, you would believe he was Fae; I'd almost swear his ears were pointed. We all loved him dearly. He was HIV+ when I first met him, having contracted it at age 19 from a lover who did not reveal his status. He converted to AIDS during the time I knew him, and it eventually took his life in his mid-30s. But it never slowed him down, he was always up for an adventure, and even when he was too ill to adventure or was hospitalized, he was always cheerful and mischievous.There's an old legend about found pennies; I don't know if it's just a Southern thing or if it's more widespread: if you see a heads up penny, pick it up because it's good luck. If you see a tails up penny, let it lay because that's picking up bad luck. Walking with Ty, I noticed if he saw a penny, sometimes he would pick it up, sometimes he would let it lay, but not after a short pause and movement I couldn't quite see. I eventually asked him what he was doing. He said "if it's heads up, I'm picking it up for luck. If it's tails, I flip it over to heads and give it a little of my good luck for the next person to pick up."From that day forward, I began to do the same, first in his honor, now in his memory.
What is the smallest coin people would bend over and pick up if they found it on the street?
I pick up ANY coin I see.It’s free money; I never turn down free, no-strings-attached money. (And, frankly, the exercise of bending over is good for me.)When I pick up a found coin, it gives me a chance to reflect on all the things I’ve gotten for free and to be thankful. It’s easy to fall into a habit of bemoaning how unfair life is, all the things we should get that we’ve been unfairly deprived of. But most of us, and I’m no exception, are also the recipients of things, good things, that we didn’t earn and just happened to fall into our paths.Not necessarily big things, either; things like people who are kind when they could be indifferent. Free time in a busy day to catch sight of a hummingbird feeding on some aloe flowers. Unexpectedly light traffic when you’re going to an appointment. The nice lady at the grocery store who regularly asks me how my brother is doing.Found coins remind me that life isn’t always about big things I work for, and that I’ve been the recipient of many gifts in life that I didn’t expect and didn’t have to pay for.Gratitude and resentment are both choices I’m free to make. Life seems better when I find reasons for gratitude rather than reasons for resentment. That’s what I remind myself every time I bend down to pick up a found penny.
What does it mean when a person has a penny taped over their door in their house?
I went to a friends house and saw this. I didn't ask what it mean as I did not want to offend anyone. But what does it mean when someone has a single penny taped to the frame of each door in their house?