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by knibloe » Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:05 pm
It is official, I am an idiot. Yesterday I threw out a pair of work pants. While online buying a pair of the same pants to replace them, I read the following in the description: "Brass zipper." This immediately prompted me to go over to the garbage can and do this:
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8.24 grams!!
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by sparechange » Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:07 pm
It all adds up, nice save!
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by shinnosuke » Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:11 pm
knibloe wrote:It is official, I am an idiot. Yesterday I threw out a pair of work pants. While online buying a pair of the same pants to replace them, I read the following in the description: "Brass zipper." This immediately prompted me to go over to the garbage can and do this:
brass zipper.JPG
8.24 grams!!
You mean you ripped your britches?
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them... (Thomas Jefferson)
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by creshka46 » Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:22 pm
That's about 3 cents! better than a copper penny!
Pennies: $4200 - (0) indians - (5)steel - (1) George V Canadian
Nickels: $6500 - (62)war - (23)buf - (1)V nic - (4) key date jeff's
Dimes: $5000 - (24)roos - (2)merc - (2)AgCAN
Halves: $8000 - (7)'64 - (33)40% - (1)walker
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by jasmatk » Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:21 pm
you should of cut the rivets off while you were at it.
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