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byFudRucker ( 866063 ) writes:
just round off prices to the nearest quarter, i been at war with the penny too, 1979 and older i keep in a jar, 1980 and newer i toss in the trash, the 1979 and older are solid copper, the newer ones are copper coated zinc
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byPowercntrl ( 458442 ) writes:
just round off prices to the nearest quarter
Quarters? You mean those little round metal discs that unlock the shopping carts at Aldi?
byMacMann ( 7518492 ) writes:
You literally toss pennies in the trash? If the waste of minting pennies concerns you then put the pennies in an old peanut butter jar and when it's full take it to the bank for a deposit. Banks do this all the time and have coin sorting machines to count them out in a minute or two. You do go to your bank on occasion anyway, right? For things like cashing a big check or depositing cash from your business dealings? Don't throw pennies in the trash, that's just costing you and everyone else real money.
bympercy ( 1085347 ) writes:
Most grocery stores near me have a CoinStar machine that you can dump jars of loose change into. Sure, they charge a fee of 7.5% or 10% or 12% or whatever, but when dumping a jar of pennies do I really care if I'm getting $11 or $10 back? I'm still "ahead". Sometimes the fee is waived or reduced if you take a store credit instead of cash, so that works for me too. So once a year or so I try to remember to take my pennies to the store when I'm already going there. The 2 minutes spent dumping them and getting
byWaterFoodEarthCosmos ( 6661530 ) writes:
Lot of banks and credit unions you can cash them out at face value.
bympercy ( 1085347 ) writes:
A lot of them require them to be rolled. Both of my banks require bulk change to be rolled, one requires my account# to be written on the roll. I'm willing to forgo ~10% to NOT have to roll them.
bykaatochacha ( 651922 ) writes:
save them up, then go to the supermarket. Many markets have self checkout Pay with your jug of pennies.
byFudRucker ( 866063 ) writes:
i toss em in the trash because it takes them out of circulation
byMacMann ( 7518492 ) writes:
i toss em in the trash because it takes them out of circulation
That kind of thinking sounds like borderline mental illness.
You do realize that you tossing out pennies will only cause the US mint to create more pennies to replace those you tossed out? You are not removing pennies from circulation by throwing them away. Those specific pennies are removed but in the end the total number of pennies in circulation is tracked by the US Mint and they will just make more to keep that total relatively consistent.
If you don't want the pennies then don't take them, just leave t
byswillden ( 191260 ) writes:
i toss em in the trash because it takes them out of circulation
That just forces the mint to replace them to maintain the number in circulation.
byWaterFoodEarthCosmos ( 6661530 ) writes:
It was prior to 1982 dated one that they are solid copper.
byWaterFoodEarthCosmos ( 6661530 ) writes:
Correction: Mostly copper at 95% unless you have a really old one. Not sure how I got caught up in the wording of this thread.
bykaatochacha ( 651922 ) writes:
Additional correction: 1982 was a year in which both 95% copper and zinc copper clad pennies were issued.
I had a science class in 1983, and the teacher would do an experiment where he put a penny in a beaker of acid and we'd watch it dissolve. Then he'd talk about the chemical reaction between the copper and the acid. I'm guessing he had been doing this same experiment for decades.
He hadn't heard about the penny composition change, and I guess he'd gotten one of the newer copper washed zinc pennies. Plop g
byWaterFoodEarthCosmos ( 6661530 ) writes:
Thanks! And to think I have a plaque with the birth year coins all of the same year. Yes it does include 1982. It does have a history lesson in the write up of the penny that says that. As Cory Doctorow says (fixed, again) when it has to go two rounds. Thanks for the additional correction.
byFudRucker ( 866063 ) writes:
That sounds communist, the pennies i throw out are either mine to do as i wish or not, if not then itâ(TM)s communism
byFly Swatter ( 30498 ) writes:
Yet no one knows you are doing it, perhaps just start dropping them on the floor in front of the cashier for all to see. At least then you have a podium to explain what you are doing. The latter is just secretly costing taxpayers money, why do you hate our country?
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