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 Posted - 06/16/2009 : 08:02:31
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1) Whenever you get change from a cash transaction, you ask for it all back in pennies.
2) Your kid plays on the McDonald's Playscape, while you sit there and sort.
3)You've contemplated how much copper is in the McDonald's Children's House charity bin, and how you can get your grubby little hands on it.
4) You carry zincs on you, so that way you can "give a penny" while you "take a penny" at the convenience store.
5) Whenever you see bits of the movie "Grease", you wish the name of the school was Ryedale High.. not Rydell.
6) "Zinc" is a four-letter swear word in your vocabulary
7) You've developed a green-thumb.. not because of your gardening prowess, but because the green stuff on the pennies keeps making its way under your thumbnail.
8) When someone says "Penny for your thoughts" you tell them, "only if it's before 1982"
9) If you do give "your two cents".. you make sure it's zinc, so you can keep the copper ones.
10) You are jealous of the old bum in the movie "UHF" who finds a 1955 DDO.. and you constantly point out that the Double Die occurred in Philly, and not Denver.
11) "Wheaties" isn't just a breakfast Cereal.
12) You're sorting copper right now, aren't you?
13) Your staring at the give a penny take a penny jar to see if there's any copper or wheats, and miss what the cashier person is trying to tell you : ) Credit to highroller4321
14. When you order at the drive thru and you have a change cup you refuse to give out pennies if they are copper. You instead break another bill rather than give correct change. Credit to Copper Catcher
15. You stoop down to pick up pennies in any and all parking lots including crossing the parking lot with on coming traffic! Credit to Copper Catcher
16. All the bank tellers know you as the "penny guy". Credit to Copper Catcher
17. The car or truck you drive has had to have the springs repaired. Credit to Copper Catcher
18. You spend ten hours or more a week with your "hobby". Credit to Copper Catcher
19. Your back hurts. Credit to Copper Catcher
20. You have no intention on stopping until the copper runs out! Credit to Copper Catcher
21. You get upset when the cashier takes a penny out of the "take a penny tray" to make change that leaves you without new pennies to sort. Credit to daviscfad
22. you believe it would be more accurate to change the old saying, "a penny saved is a penny earned" to "a copper penny saved is a penny and a half earned". Credit to Silver Surfer
23. When friends ask to borrow money, you give them your zincs and tell them to take them.. on the condition that they give the money back to you in fresh unsorted coin.
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 14:03:56
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| Nice ! |
---> Come to the new and improved realcent: http://realcent.org
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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RyanAKL
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 14:14:37
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| Very funny and also very true. GJ |
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 14:27:02
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| 13) Your staring at the give a penny take a penny jar to see if theres any copper or wheats, and miss what the cashier person is trying to tell you : ) |
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Neckro
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 15:04:01
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| Sums it up for most. |
Trolling is an art. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 17:19:03
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Originally posted by highroller4321
13) Your staring at the give a penny take a penny jar to see if theres any copper or wheats, and miss what the cashier person is trying to tell you : )
Just grab all the pennies and leave a dime. That's what I do....
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 17:47:34
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| Lol...good post. Has anyone looked down directly below the drive through window at some of the dropped change and wondered what goodies might be down there? |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 19:06:53
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Originally posted by CoinHunter53562
Lol...good post. Has anyone looked down directly below the drive through window at some of the dropped change and wondered what goodies might be down there?
If I saw enough change I might just get out |
Copper Penny Investing
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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 21:24:26
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i have coinhunter! I actually got a little mad tonight b.c the lady at the BP decided "when i gave her a quarter on my $1.06 purchase" to get a penny out of the take a penny leave a penny tray and use it towards my purchase so i would not get any pennys back she did give me all nickels in return though |
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Silver Surfer
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 22:21:30
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Originally posted by daviscfad
i have coinhunter! I actually got a little mad tonight b.c the lady at the BP decided "when i gave her a quarter on my $1.06 purchase" to get a penny out of the take a penny leave a penny tray and use it towards my purchase so i would not get any pennys back she did give me all nickels in return though
That's funny because the lady at the Shell station I frequent often does the same exact thing. It is really starting to annoy me also. A couple of days ago she actually shorted me a cent.  As if to say, "who gives a rip about a measly penny?"
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis |
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Copper Catcher
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 16:16:50
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I have a few more to add to the list!!!
14. When you order at the drive thru and you have a change cup you refuse to give out pennies if they are copper. You instead break another bill rather than give correct change.
15. You stoop down to pick up pennies in any and all parking lots including crossing the parking lot with on coming traffic!
16. All the bank tellers know you as the "penny guy"
17. The car or truck you drive has had to have the springs repaired.
18. You spend ten hours or more a week with your "hobby"
19. Your back hurts.
20. You have no intention on stopping until the copper runs out!
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 16:48:22
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Originally posted by daviscfad
i have coinhunter! I actually got a little mad tonight b.c the lady at the BP decided "when i gave her a quarter on my $1.06 purchase" to get a penny out of the take a penny leave a penny tray and use it towards my purchase so i would not get any pennys back she did give me all nickels in return though
Ugh....same thing happened to me. My total ended in $0.03 so I was ready to look through 97 cents worth of change (I am eternally hopeful to find wild silver in change again). The lady took 3 cents out of the penny tray and gave me back the full amount. What I didnt get is that she was on the closing shift, so that meant she had to count out all the change. So she could have saved a little work for herself instead of adding to her pile.  Oh well... |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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CoinHunter53562
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 16:49:53
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Originally posted by Copper Catcher
I have a few more to add to the list!!!
14. When you order at the drive thru and you have a change cup you refuse to give out pennies if they are copper. You instead break another bill rather than give correct change.
15. You stoop down to pick up pennies in any and all parking lots including crossing the parking lot with on coming traffic!
16. All the bank tellers know you as the "penny guy"
17. The car or truck you drive has had to have the springs repaired.
18. You spend ten hours or more a week with your "hobby"
19. Your back hurts.
20. You have no intention on stopping until the copper runs out!
Hmm....I went to make a deposit the other day, and the first thing the lady asked was if I was there to get penny boxes.
For #19, I wonder if this hobby of mine is why I have been having to see a chiropractor the last 3 weeks...lol. |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 21:02:58
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Originally posted by Copper Catcher
15. You stoop down to pick up pennies in any and all parking lots including crossing the parking lot with on coming traffic!
Last Saturday, my wife and i were out for Chinese food with her parents, and her mom found a penny in the parking lot.. she handed it to me right there, and didn't even look at it.
.. it was a wheatie! |
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Silver Surfer
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 21:13:05
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| SleepingMartyr. It would be accurate to change the old saying, "a penny saved is a penny earned" to "a copper penny saved is a penny and a half earned". |
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis |
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Tourney64
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Posted - 06/19/2009 : 06:48:58
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| As silly as some of them may seem. Many of them are so true for me. |
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AGgressive Metal
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Posted - 06/19/2009 : 22:31:32
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| You live in envy the job of clerks and cashiers, even though you make more than them, because they probably have the chance to get lots of wheats and pre-64 silver if they paid attention. |
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel / For nothyng is better than lyberte / For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world.
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chris6084
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 19:14:08
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Originally posted by AGgressive Metal
You live in envy the job of clerks and cashiers, even though you make more than them, because they probably have the chance to get lots of wheats and pre-64 silver if they paid attention.
This one is me. I work for a large vending company, and am very envious of the ladies that get to count all the coin and prepare the deposit. They handle thousands of dollars in coin each day. I voulunteered to help them out for a week when they were shorthanded for 3 days. In three days I found 5 gold plated state quarters, a merc dime, a silver roosevelt, and a buffalo. It almost made me want to quit my job and be a cashier. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 20:14:06
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Originally posted by Copper Catcher
I have a few more to add to the list!!!
14. When you order at the drive thru and you have a change cup you refuse to give out pennies if they are copper. You instead break another bill rather than give correct change.
15. You stoop down to pick up pennies in any and all parking lots including crossing the parking lot with on coming traffic!
16. All the bank tellers know you as the "penny guy"
17. The car or truck you drive has had to have the springs repaired.
18. You spend ten hours or more a week with your "hobby"
19. Your back hurts.
20. You have no intention on stopping until the copper runs out!
The lady at the post office said "Penny Man" to me the other day. She also asked if those 3 boxes in the big PO box pickup where mine.
She said the guys were grunting in the back when they picked them up.
Also the guy that gets the boxes off the counter saw me with a box. I told him it was not that heavy today and he replied "Yea Right!!!"
As far as the springs go. The Chevy Astro handles the pick-ups and dumps just fine. The Dodge Intrepid not so much. When the back wheels are up in the wheel well it is time to go home.
24. When the head teller has your phone number on a post it note at her window and you know all by name. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 20:19:35
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Originally posted by Silver Surfer
SleepingMartyr. It would be accurate to change the old saying, "a penny saved is a penny earned" to "a copper penny saved is a penny and a half earned".
For one of the gifts at my new daughter(-in-law)'s bridal shower I gave her/them a canning jar that I had decorated and put one wheat cent in it for "seed" and put the saying..."A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned...BUT A Wheat Cent Saved Is Two Or More Cents Earned".
19. Your back hurts. Sorry others are hurting too, but I am glad to know that it isn't just me and my health issues.
For those of you posting about being envious of clerks for what they can find/swap out through the course of their day's work, that isn't necessarily so. Many, many places frown very much upon swapping out coins from the till. As in, that's a big NO-NO, enough so that you could lose your job for it. So for those in that position, seeing something good could be absolute torture.
Continued success, everyone.
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chris6084
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Posted - 06/22/2009 : 18:00:54
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Originally posted by PreservingThePast
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Originally posted by Silver Surfer
SleepingMartyr. It would be accurate to change the old saying, "a penny saved is a penny earned" to "a copper penny saved is a penny and a half earned".
For one of the gifts at my new daughter(-in-law)'s bridal shower I gave her/them a canning jar that I had decorated and put one wheat cent in it for "seed" and put the saying..."A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned...BUT A Wheat Cent Saved Is Two Or More Cents Earned".
19. Your back hurts. Sorry others are hurting too, but I am glad to know that it isn't just me and my health issues.
For those of you posting about being envious of clerks for what they can find/swap out through the course of their day's work, that isn't necessarily so. Many, many places frown very much upon swapping out coins from the till. As in, that's a big NO-NO, enough so that you could lose your job for it. So for those in that position, seeing something good could be absolute torture.
Continued success, everyone.
It would be torture to see a good coin and not be allowed to swap it out. The cashier I helped does not have that restriction. If I had the cashier role I was talking about, I would even be able to dump my pennies there and have them picked up by thier armored truck, I would only have to buy the bank bags. This would make every bank in my town a source bank! |
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 06/22/2009 : 18:03:11
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when you find a $25 bank box in the back of your trunk that's been sitting there for over a month.
(You missed seeing it when you did your weekly pickups becuase it had slid behind some other stuff.) |
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Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 06/23/2009 : 17:25:45
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A few more...
The word 'copperhead' doesn't make you think of a snake.
You have enough pre-82 Lincolns to buy a pre-owned Lincoln.
You unconsciously sing, hum or whistle "Pennies From Heaven" as you feed the Ryedale.
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but like silver coins found in your change
I stay the same.
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The United States of America started out as the new Republic of Rome.
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Investin Cents
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USA
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Posted - 08/08/2009 : 23:40:50
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| Of the original 23 signs, about 8 apply to me - about 33%. Yikes! That is also my latest hit rate on coppers from a $50.00 bag! Another sign! :) |
Most recent book I've read: "Meltdown" by Thomas E. Woods Jr. Current book: "I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone & No One Can Pay" by John Lanchester |
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PreservingThePast
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Posted - 08/09/2009 : 11:15:02
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Originally posted by Investin Cents
Of the original 23 signs, about 8 apply to me - about 33%. Yikes! That is also my latest hit rate on coppers from a $50.00 bag! Another sign! :)
Investin Cents.......welcome!!!
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