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Moderator
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This isn't exactly a CRH story, but I wasn't sure where else to put it. I moved it to the Main Forum. This was too funny to only let the CRH crowd enjoy it.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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I once spotted an old Wheat cent in a grocery store cash register while receiving my change and I politely asked the cashier if she could give it to me. She gave me that "you are a weirdo" look and fumbled through the register for a very awkward 30 seconds (while people were waiting behind me) until she finally found/understood what I wanted. I thanked her, got my bags and left. It was a common date 1956, but hey, I'll take it over a modern Lincoln Memorial any day.  |
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United States
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Well worth the effort, in my opinion. |
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Valued Member
United States
376 Posts |
Im soon to have an embarrassing moment when I go back to my local CU to buy another $400 for CRH. I can tell they're going to start getting frustrated with me but, really, it's my money, give it to me how I like, right?
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
1509 Posts |
Absolutely nothing wrong with being weird (read - different). At least it makes you stand out from most people.
My friends are all acquinted with my obsession (read - passion) for coins and notes and am often asked "Been through anybody's pockets recently?"
Don't tone it down, just keep on doing what you do and to heck with anyone else's opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
There is a rhyme "See a penny, pick it up, all day long, your'll have good luck!"
If anyone looks at you like you are a vagrant just recite it to them, there are plenty of supersticious people around and somehow thats acceptable to most people.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Speaking of looking through garbage. A neighbor of mine goes through garbage cans all over the neighborhood. He has a stead job, makes good money, Actually owns his home outright, has a pickup truck, car, 3 motorcycles. Yet he goes through garbage. So being a sort of outgoing person I asked him about it. He said he picks up Aluminum Cans for the return policy. ?. He pointed out on many cans, at the top is a notation that this is worth $0.10 in some states if returned as is. Since Wisconsin is not that far away, he has relatives there and goes there frequently and they use that return system, he collects as many as possible. Last time he received almost $100.
Still not sure if it's worth having people seeing someone going through garbage.
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Valued Member
United States
470 Posts |
I don't go through garbage or change trays but in the spring through the fall, I spend my Saturday mornings and sometimes afternoons standing out on the median on the main highway with a sign for donations. I tried Will Work for Food but I've switched to Down on my luck, please help, God Bless. Sometime I do Saturday and Sunday if I have nothing else going on that weekend. But is good money from 10am-4pm.
I've received star notes, silver from time to time and the odd joker with a couple of washers...hahaha.
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07/02/2012 10:03 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1211 Posts |
FYI: That system of returning cans for deposit over state lines is illegal...
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Valued Member
United States
138 Posts |
I always check my change as soon as I get it and have been known to bump into a few folks with my eyes staring in my hand
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8517 Posts |
Yeah, Newman and Kramer tried that with returning cans for deposit across state lines and it didn't work for them either.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1213 Posts |
I bend down to pick up any coins I see on the ground. However, I did it about a month ago and threw my back out and had to stop for a week.  It's all better now, so I'm back to picking them up. |
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Valued Member
291 Posts |
I pick up coins on the ground.
Mostly pennies but sometimes I get a nickel or a dime.
But the older I get, the harder it is to bend down! :)
I also check the return slot on the local CoinStar machines - get a lot of foreign coins from them.
Well I used to at any rate, lately the pickins' have been mighty slim. ;)
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Pillar of the Community
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okiepb ... => why do "you" bend over to pick-up the coins when obviously you've already trained your avatar to do it for you!!?  |
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Valued Member
United States
234 Posts |
Take it from a weird guy, your not fully there until you bail into a pond for a coin. |
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