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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 05/18/2009 : 14:22:39
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I called the county school district and my daughters private school to see if they had any penny drives planned for next year. They told me to call back at the beginning of the school year.
Has anyone ever got involved with a penny drive and bought the change from a penny drive?
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 14:29:06
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I've thought about it, and searched on the internet for penny drives going on in my area. Nada.
Penny drives go on all the time, but I think info is generally distributed locally. So unless you get the newsletters or your kids are in a school that's having one, you wont be able to buy the pennies.
My plan was to get in contact with the coordinator of the drive. Find out which bank is accepting the pennies (sponsor). Offering to buy the entire lot from them in bags, so all they need to do is count the lot. Then making a goodwill donation to the pennydrive school. It would probably be a win-win-win situation on all sides. |
Edited by - buyingsilvers on 05/18/2009 14:33:56 |
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Lemon Thrower
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 15:03:23
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| do a search on this site. there were some great ideas. one was to offer to count them, and to do it by homeroom or whatever. competition is good. if you have a cs-10 this is no problem at all. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 15:19:28
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Originally posted by Lemon Thrower
do a search on this site. there were some great ideas. one was to offer to count them, and to do it by homeroom or whatever. competition is good. if you have a cs-10 this is no problem at all.
I am about to get a cs-95 and i would offer to count them daily so they could have a running total.
I think that the private school might take me up on it. No lugging coins somewhere and they would get paper money everyday that the drive was going on. |
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 16:02:05
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Let us know how it goes. I'm guessing that private school administrators are a relatively close knit bunch. If you could provide great service at your school, word might get around, and they'll ask for your assistance with other schools. |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 16:10:55
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| I try this at my church amd we raised over 75000 pennies. I did go through them before they made it to the bank. Found steel and a number of wheaties. |
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 05/18/2009 : 20:14:41
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One time I walked in to a branch of one of my credit unions two towns over I'd never visited. Asked for pennies and nickels - they were really happy! They had just received the results of a penny drive at a local school. It was a pretty good haul.
I think setting up a penny drive at your kid's school would be a good idea. Best if you can count onsite and write a check to the school. No need for them to roll the coins. |
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moboman
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/22/2009 : 19:46:50
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I have. I counted all the coins for them. I was tipped off by the bank! The lady was very thankful, she said they would have taken them to coinstar had we not done it.
Hopefully they'll call us back again if they ever do another penny drive. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/22/2009 : 23:40:20
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I just hooked up with one at a high school near work today. I am all set up to do their counting for next year's drive.. which they are thinking about running all year now that they know they don't have to count them and roll them. I met the student leaders and their teacher at the bank today when I was dropping off a few boxes of zinc. They ran the current drive for about a month and raised $400.. which I was able to buy from the bank, even though they had just finished bagging the rolls for shipment. Timing is everything.
I think I will be contacting more schools and offering to do the counting for their drives. The Mach 5 is a little slower than my Mach 7's, but it is portable, and at 3,000 coins a minute it should be able to get the job done.  |
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Gr33nday43
New Member
Uzbekistan
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Posted - 05/23/2009 : 13:04:36
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| All the schools around here are all about "silver" coinage. Silver in this case is clad coins...=/ Called the local schools around my town and they all say we don't get many pennies in our drives. Sucks but oh well. |
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