You see a penny on the floor

[Kulindahr]

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"A penny saved is a penny earned." - Benjamin Franklin

Keep in mind that when he said that, a penny could get two loaves of fresh-baked bread.


Sure, I pick it up: it will take me about one second to do so, maybe a bit more. If I call it 1.2 seconds, then I'm gaining money at a rate of $30/hr, which isn't bad at all.

Of course if it's sticky or dirty and needs cleaning, there's extra labor involved, so I may only be getting about a fifth of that, which, depending on what I'm up to, may make it not worth the effort.

 

[ronboy]

Of course, I will pick it up. Sometimes, you can't buy something for not having a penny.

 

[chance1]

love my pennies

use them so as to not get more pennies

 

[frankfrank]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

If it's in a location where I don't think anybody else will have a trace of an "Ah!" moment by spotting it themselves*, I'll probably pick it up. I figure that I'm actually BEING PAID for a minuscule amount of EXERCISE. I may have even burned one-tenth of a calorie by stooping over and back to standing up.

I won't pick it up if it will inconvenience me in any way, perhaps if I'm carrying stuff with arms full, or I'm trying to make sure that I catch a bus or train**, etc.

I have a friend who is HOMELESS in Miami-Dada County (I've left the typo in especially for those people who like modern art, lol), and he sends me a meticulous financial report every month, even including the amount of change from the previous month, and one of his line items is "found money" which is almost always a non-rounded number (such as $2.17 or $0.88), so obviously he picks up pennies.

*I find it EXTREMELY strange that, in English, the prevailing term to refer to an indefinite singular person is this DOUBLE PLURAL. Of all the quirks in this bizarre language, that's one of the strangest of all to me.

**This only happens when I am traveling somewhere and far from home - more often Portland than anywhere else.

 

[johaninsc]

If I see a penny on the floor I'll pick it up and take it home to the jar...doesn't matter if it's heads or tails

...exceptions being ones seen on restroom floors...no touchy

No offense taken, but I am as interested in what Jubbers would do with a found penny as I am with what piece of eye candy has appeared on the Price is Right.

your next thread..?

 

[windsors]

^ How do you put it in your shoe, unless you wear penny loafers.

 

[ibill1]

No, I don't pick up coin, just bills

 

[chrisrobin]

I save my pennies for the "holidays" and drop them one at a time in a Salvation Army kettle.

 

[Seth82]

I never pick up anything less than a five dollar bill

a few years back I found a fifty dollar bill on the floor of some dive bar.

 

[Kahaih]

Kick it under the furniture.

See if a dozen starving dust bunnies can live on just pennies.

 

[BFizzle]

C'mon people, lets think of thread topics that have more substance than this - no offense to the OP.

I don't care what side you pick up

Making a memo of this for the next time y'all say me and my gurlz are the problem.

 

[star-warrior]

I probably wouldn't bother ... I don't bend over for less than a fiver.

You cheap slut!

 

[Rickrock]

I used to, but less often now. I would never put it in my shoe.

 

[Adrusek81]

I would never pick up any money that I found on the floor, no matter how small or large the amount were. Maybe it's because of my Catholic upbringing, but I'd be wrecked by guilt and the feeling that I have done something that has caused someone else to suffer... What if the person who dropped the money came back, frantically looking for it? What would you tell them "oh yeah, here it is! I'm the immoral bastard who saw this money on the floor and, instead of leaving it there or alerting a person in a position of responsibility, I decided to take it"? The shame would cause me to have a heart attack.

 

[72-Jay]

Yeah I'd pick it up...unless as others have mentioned it was a restroom floor

 

[grasser92]

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"A penny saved is a penny earned." - Benjamin Franklin

“Humans can only consume in the present. It is our present dissatisfactions that call out for relief. It is in the present that we experience pleasure and pain. Saving in the interest of infinitely postponed consumption is not saving at all – it is pure loss.”
-Callahan 2004. (Austrian school of thought )
just to add to the statement

 

[Carlo1991]

Do you pick it up?

Do you put it in your shoe?

i put it in my coin jar

 

[Saybrooke]

Picking up a penny on heads is good luck. Picking one up on tails, and giving it to someone else is good luck for the both of you! ^.^

So I always do!

 

[Ryuukie]

Nope. Not worth it.

 

[Swellegant]

Floor's too far away, a penny's not worth the trip. Beside, I probably put it there, I throw pennies away when I get them... if there's no need-a-penny/leave-a-penny tray or tip jar at the register, I drop them on the street when I get outside.