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Does anybody else glean satisfaction from taking cu cents out of circulation? I realize that my hoarding is akin to taking a Dixie cup out of Lake Erie. However, I find some small joy whenever I add to my holdings.

Perhaps the silver hoarders of yesteryear felt the same.

I am in total agreement with you. Cup by cup, let's drain this swamp.

Absolutely!! My change at the gas station today was 28 cents, one quarter and three copper pennies! Amazing the joy that you can get from the smallest of things.

+1

Sorting from boxes and bags is one thing; getting 3 cents copper change reinforces why you do it in the first place.

Morsecode wrote:+1

Sorting from boxes and bags is one thing; getting 3 cents copper change reinforces why you do it in the first place.

Agreed... It is a sweet feeling getting copper in change and 3 out of 3 would have put a big smile on my face, even though 3 cents is essentially insignificant with all the penny's I have stacked. I had 9 cents due to me at McDonalds the other day and I was hoping for a couple coppers and the slacker just gave me a dime back.

NHsorter wrote:

Morsecode wrote:+1

Sorting from boxes and bags is one thing; getting 3 cents copper change reinforces why you do it in the first place.

Agreed... It is a sweet feeling getting copper in change and 3 out of 3 would have put a big smile on my face, even though 3 cents is essentially insignificant with all the penny's I have stacked. I had 9 cents due to me at McDonalds the other day and I was hoping for a couple coppers and the slacker just gave me a dime back.

I was pumping gas a while back and purposely stopped the pump at $34.81 so I would get a dime, a nickel and 4 pennies in change (a chance for silver in the wild, a nickel for storage and a chance for some Cu). Well, the chump behind the register gave me two dimes in change. I tried again at the same station several days later, different cashier, same results. Then I tried by stopping the pump at $XX.82 and I'll be dadblamed if they didn't still give me two dimes as change. So that time I was two pennies ahead, but unfairly robbed of my copper searching thrill. Now, since the sweet deal on the Presidential Dollar Coin is over, I just pay with a credit card.

That happens to me ALL THE TIME! The part about cashiers just rounding up. Drives me nuts, lol.... but I don't want to be the weirdo demanding the right change. Once... I forget the situation, but the cashier pulled out a quarter from her pocket and gave it to me. I guess I looked a bit shocked as I said "no you don't have to do that" and she just looked at me and said "it's ok it's just a quarter." Ah well.

This is anecdotal proof that the cent is no longer needed.

But the Youngsters never bought Penny candy
nor do they Sort

I'm kind of young, I never bought penny candy, and I do sort!

I remember a penny bubble gum machine in a drugstore that used to be in my neighborhood.
Does that qualify me as an "oldster"?

In my anime hobby all you have to do to be an "oldster" is own VHS tapes. We have some
pretty young "oldsters" in that group.

Of course in ham radio my older friend that walks with a cane is considered a "kid" still.

fansubs_ca wrote:I remember a penny bubble gum machine in a drugstore that used to be in my neighborhood.
Does that qualify me as an "oldster"?

In my anime hobby all you have to do to be an "oldster" is own VHS tapes. We have some
pretty young "oldsters" in that group.

Of course in ham radio my older friend that walks with a cane is considered a "kid" still.

We still have one in our family business. Sadly, the return is usually only 10-16% cu.