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Poll Question
Hello!
I'm just an American who's torn between the dollar coin and the dollar bill. Most people are strongly against one side or the other.
I'm just wondering how Canadians feel about loonies and toonies. Do you like them? Love them? Absolutely hate them? I've heard differing opinions about them lately.
Thanks for the responses!
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United States
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Personally, as a Canadian living in the US, the dollar bill annoys me, they're generally ratty and dirty and they just accumulate in your wallet making it look like you've got cash until you realize that's 10 or 20 one's.
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Canada
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Don't like the toonie. Okay with the loonies, but they get worn easily and lose their lustre in a few months of circulating.
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I agree that 10 or 20 one dollar bills would make your wallet pretty fat => but try sticking 10 or 20 loonies into your pants-pocket (it's a leg workout!)  |
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Canada
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I actually am not a fan of the toonie... I like the loonie, But I've really never used a two dollar bill or a one dollar bill. (too young)
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Don't like the toonie. Okay with the loonies, but they get worn easily and lose their lustre in a few months of circulating. Yeah, same with the Golden dollars here. A couple days in a pocket and bright golden coins turn dull, dirty and brown. How are the original 1987 dollars doing? What's the lowest grade you've seen a coin wear to just from circulating? |
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Canada
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Paper bucks don't weigh down your pocket so much, plus I could have done without having to collect all these loonies & toonies.
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Canada
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 My "cut off" collecting date is 1967, so loonies, toonies and goonies don't effect me! Glenn  |
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Canada
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My "cut off" collecting date is 1967,  As, far as loonies and toonies, don't care that much for the toonie but, when the Government says that's all you got you have to use them.  |
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Canada
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At first, I didn't like it.But got used to it pretty quickly. Now I wouldn't like if they came back to paper but don't want the 5$ to become a coin neither.
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Canada
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Glenzy, he's talking about circulation coins, not collector coins...
Anyways, they're fine. I like the toonie and I hate dimes. Loonies are fine but they can't buy you anything. They're only good for doing your laundry.
Not many people carry 10-20 loonies and toonies. Think about it, and really think about it. That means that you received change 10-20 times from 5s, 10s, 20s, whatever. Are you really making 10-20 separate purchases in a day - everyday? How much $ would one have to start off with if this were the case? They don't weigh down the pocket, everyone with this argument is speculating without even thinking. They're fine. If you have that many why aren't you going to the bank to exchange them for 20s? This being said, $5 coins wouldn't suit our needs because that's what the banknote is for.
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Loonies are fine but they can't buy you anything. They're only good for doing your laundry. Eeesh... Three of my last five cash purchases were for a dollar or less: a postage stamp, two test-taking booklets, and... laundry The other two were less than $2 each.. But the problem mentioned I guess is what happens when dollars become "change". They get stored up, not spent. Most here don't use coins; just save them up and dump them in a Coinstar. Not what I do; I like using exact change and stuff. Edited by coinsearcher83
02/25/2012 10:46 pm
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United States
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Libertad said, Quote:
They don't weigh down the pocket, everyone with this argument is speculating without even thinking. I do not think I understand this. Although it seems simple enough - it confuses me. Other Canadians are saying the coins are heavy in their pockets. I assume this is from them using them and their personal experience. Please explain how this is speculation? Or am I missing something obvious? How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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When notes become so little in value they have a tendency of doing nothing. I live in China and have 1 yuan notes (maybe 15 cents worth) and lower just hanging around my desk because I can't be bothered to have them in my wallet. Coins I will actively try and use up but for some reason the small notes I hardly ever do that.
I was in Korea over Spring Festival and the 1000 won banknote which is like a $1 was very useful though, for the subway anyway. But coins do help with spending, when you have too many you can feel it, and you just whack open your wallet and pour them out and count them quickly, having a bunch of notes not in order is much harder, especially in the US where they are the same colour, same size.
I worked in a Supermarket right by the Rocky Mountain National Park and the till would either lack dollar bills all day or have so many you couldn't close the till, grrr. Why? No idea.
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Canada
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would be a total fan if the loonie was a nickel voyager instead of a dull brass duck.
the twoonie is at least cool being bi-metalic but for every coin introduced they should demonitize another (ie looine for penny, twoonie for nickel). then again I also think they should circulate 50 cent pieces :)
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Canada
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For the most part I love the loonie and toonie, but I have to admit all I do with them is throw them in my cars ashtray and use them in the car wash, When my kids lived at home they would steal them .... I mean borrow them  from me but in the last couple years they are really starting to stack up around the house. I have recently put them in rolls, now I just need to take them to the bank $650 in toonies and $400 in loons  I keep hearing rumors about a $5 coin I'm not sure how I feel about that, I have noticed I very rarely get $5 bills in my wallet most time the person working the till finds it easier to just give change. The only time my pockets get right full of change is on the day before X-mass when I do all my shopping LOL |
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