Find a penny, pick it up...

badgermonkey · 25 June 2005 at 4:32PM

... and you could have more than $13,000!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4619605.stm

All you copper collectors are vindicated.

apprentice_tycoon · 25 June 2005 at 4:55PM

I bet he is mighty pleased with himself!

Speaking of picking things up - I was just driving into town through a nice leafy ahem er, posh part of town when I saw a wicker conservatory rocking chair on the grass verge, I did a quick u-turn to have a closer look, there was a cardboard sign attached saying 'help yourself' so I did. Luckily it's an estate car, and I had ropes to tie the tailgate down so I'm a bit chuffed too!

I confess that I did look round for Jeremy Beadle though first - my 18 year old who was with me cringed and told me that others mothers don't pick things up from the roadside - more fool them!

SnowyOwl_2 · 25 June 2005 at 5:22PM

That is a lot of pennies. I notice that the article refers to a coin counting machine company - I wonder how much he gave them just for counting his coins. And he sounded so penny-wise!!

Apprentice Tycoon...well done on getting that chair, I'd have done the same. Bet your 18 year old has no objections to sitting in it...

elvis_bloggs · 25 June 2005 at 5:25PM

I always pick up pennies if I see them but I spend them, mixed in with other money of course, I hate the ones that have been run over by cars a few times, they are all rough and jagged and can make holes in your pockets.

Ticklemouse · 25 June 2005 at 6:24PM

Ha ha. The benefit of having small children with you is that you can get them to pick up the coins, in case you feel embarassed

In fact, DS2 picked 1p the other day and I 'sent' him to pick up another today - only to find that this one was plastic! Oh well.

Mind you, I remember being on hols in the early 70's and everywhere my sister looked, she found change. one day she found 70+p in the hotel car park - and that was a lot of loose change in 1972

culpepper · 25 June 2005 at 10:30PM

I always pick up pennies too.My OH used to say,'you must be desperate its only a penny' till I pointed out that its only a penny until you have £5.98 and the thing you are buying is £5.99 ,shops wont let you off because 'It's just a penny'.My mum once found a Silver Cross pram in the hedge! She was expecting at the time,she asked at the nearest house and they said it had been there for days, so she took it home.Luckily it hadnt rained.When it was too small for my sister,Mum sold it.
I bought my OH a new bike and he put the old one by the front fence with 'free,please take' on a card tied to it.A boy still knocked to ask if he could have it,I think he thought it was a trick (its just not worth mending bikes,hardly any of the bits are interchangeable nowadays and massively expensive if bought new, plus we already have one spare bike in the shed for wheels,etc ).

shelly · 25 June 2005 at 10:41PM

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

I bet he is mighty pleased with himself!

Speaking of picking things up - I was just driving into town through a nice leafy ahem er, posh part of town when I saw a wicker conservatory rocking chair on the grass verge, I did a quick u-turn to have a closer look, there was a cardboard sign attached saying 'help yourself' so I did. Luckily it's an estate car, and I had ropes to tie the tailgate down so I'm a bit chuffed too!

I confess that I did look round for Jeremy Beadle though first - my 18 year old who was with me cringed and told me that others mothers don't pick things up from the roadside - more fool them!

Nice one!! Just told hubby this and he said how funny would it have been if the chair wasn't free at all but previous to you spotting it,it had had something in it/on it that was free and to help yourself to but the owners just hadn't checked it lately and when the went to look the chair as well as whatever was in it had gone too!!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

apprentice_tycoon · 25 June 2005 at 10:49PM

shelly wrote:

Nice one!! Just told hubby this and he said how funny would it have been if the chair wasn't free at all but previous to you spotting it,it had had something in it/on it that was free and to help yourself to but the owners just hadn't checked it lately and when the went to look the chair as well as whatever was in it had gone too!!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Do you know that hadn't occured to me!!!! it did have a little hole in the cane weave (a cushion will sort that out) so I assumed that they just didn't want it now that it wasn't perfect! the sign actually said ... 'free to good home, help yourself' so perhaps you wouldn't have said that about cabbages from the garden or whatever....but you have made me think....tell hubby thanks a bunch!

Mado · 25 June 2005 at 10:53PM

I did the same recently...
Embarrassed my whole family at the rubbish tip when I approached a bloke who was throwing away a beautiful honeysuckle (in flower, still with labels and price from about 5 years ago when the local nursery changed name!!!!) "because it was pot bound."

It's doing very well in my garden now... Thank you sir.

Squidgy · 25 June 2005 at 10:53PM

My names Squidgy and I'm a penny collector.

Though I'm struggling a bit at the moment as my six months preggers tummy gets in the way. It's far more embarrasing (and obvious) squatting to pick them up!

Rebob · 25 June 2005 at 11:07PM

I did my best ever earlier today. Just off to the dump for mil and I saw a £5 in the gutter. I thought it might be a trick or that it would blow away but it wasn't!

Hubby got a goody also today. At work, someone last year was caught pinching the scrap so they decided to save all scrap money to be shared among all shop floor workers. He got his share today.....£100!!!!!!!!!! Had a chinese to celebrate and the rest will go to paying off the overdraft!

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