Irv's latest pointless crusade

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The U.S. needs to either abolish the penny, or re-size it.

Over the weekend, I got myself one of those banks that tells you how much money you have as you plunk it in. The coin slot has a little tab in it that pushes over, and how far it pushes over tells the little add-y thing-y what denomination of coin you just dropped in.

This thing is counting all my pennies as dimes. It says I currently have $34.23 in change. When I take it in to the bank to get it cashed, I bet I only get somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 bucks back.

[Greenday]

I have a little mojito mixing bowl. Overflowed it. My mom guessed about $25 in change. I had $65. SCORE!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This bank of mine isn't even half full. But I can kinda use the money right now, and I don't feel like being that person who pays all in pennies.

[csquared]

I am all for it.

How about this:
Irv 2012
We don't need no stinkn' pennies!

Who will be your running mate?

[BookstoreEscapee]

Did you know pennies cost more to make than they're worth?


My change can when filled to the brim holds about $120.

[Becks]

Who will be your running mate?

Me! Me me me me me me me me me!!!

[Jester]

Over the weekend, I got myself one of those banks that tells you how much money you have as you plunk it in.

This thing is counting all my pennies as dimes.

Methinks the problem is not the penny, but the bank you purchased.

I have seen many of those banks, and the ones I have seen have no problem counting a penny as, well, a penny. If yours is counting pennies as dimes, shouldn't you be blaming the device, and not the coins?

[hinakiba777]

I have a Blue Stuffed Piggy Bank. I got it as a birthday gift. He Oinks when you put coins in.

Also, it costs almost 2 cents to make an American Penny. And 9 cents to make an American nickel. 9 cents to make a 5 cent coin, it's ridiculous. So honestly neither is really worth it.

[BlaqueKatt]

Also, it costs almost 2 cents to make an American Penny. And 9 cents to make an American nickel. 9 cents to make a 5 cent coin, it's ridiculous. So honestly neither is really worth it.

actually yes it is-SNOPES to the rescue!

think of how long those coins remain in circulation. The penny that cost less than a penny to make back in the 1950's is still in circulation today isn't it?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I tossed 30 more cents in the bank this afternoon.

Bank sez: $34.53
Total I actually got back when I cashed in all my change at the bank: $19.78

Fucking thing was off 15 bucks simply by counting pennies as worth 9 cents more than they actually are.

The old plastic beer pitcher I had been putting my change in is coming back.

[firecat88]

At my house, we have this old carafe that we use to collect change. The last time it was emptied, there was a few hundred dollars' worth of assorted change in there. In fact, it's almost time to empty it again.

[worddork]

I, too, have one of the counts your money banks; however it sometimes doesn't count everything: the older quaters with the ealge on the back, the newer nickles with the bigger picture of Jefferson's face, any and all dimes. But pennies, it'll count the pennies til the cows come home.

[Seraph]

I remember those old banks where it looked like a little monster...you'd put a penny into its hands and press a button. It'd flip the coin into its mouth, chomp a few times, and "swallow" it. Loved mine to death and mourned it when it finally broke down. Was actually super durable, just didn't withstand one of my childhood acquaintances trying to reach in its mouth to steal my change. It did bite down on his finger and give him the scare of his life though.