Re: Making change

On 2025-05-12, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-05-11 10:47 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2025-05-10, ItsJoanNotJoAnn <ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net> wrote:
 
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I literally haven't used change since the pandemic started (March 15,
2020) for me. I still have some change in my truck, but it's starting to
get an aged patina on it. Is old metal money worth anything? Is any
metal money worth anything? Let's drop the decimal after the dollar
sign and move on.
Wait! Paper pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, that's the ticket!
Shut down the Treasury coin minters! I should get in touch with Elon.
DOGE! DOGE! DOGE!
Alas, a printed penny piece of paper is still worth more than a penny,
and I don't want my taxes to pay for it. :(

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We stopped using pennies more than a decade ago. Nobody misses them.
Totals are round up or down. It was a real waste to have a heavy coin
that was worth so little. 

A U.S. penny weighs 2.5 grams.  Not a lot for the consumer.  Quite
a bit for the businesses, banks, and mints that have to deal with
them in quantity.

Gone are the days when a kid could go into a
candy store and waste 10 minutes of the store owner's time figuring out
how much of each he could get with his three pennies.

Ten minutes?  Amateur.

There was a store right across the street from my grade school
that sold mostly candy, although I bet they had cigarettes and
grownup stuff as well.

--
Cindy Hamilton