What do you do with pennies? : Othor Games

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:03 pm

And we could make them different colors based on how much is in your bank account, where you live, and all sorts of other fun criteria. :yes:

Exactly! Your entire identity, written on the safety of your wrist.

Beautiful. :wub:

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:38 am

I'm sorry, but this is just begging for trouble. I'd love it for actual money to go away, but that presents problems. Security issues come to mind. How secure would it be?

As secure as credit cards, what's the difference? And digital wallet apps already exist, I forget what it's called, but some stores accept it, you just use your phone to pay.

(Square, Google Wallet, etc. already let you use an app on your phone to buy stuff in stores).

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:33 am

I save them for "http://www.rwglobal.com/~jeneece/index.html". I have a couple plastic yogurt containers full.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:19 pm

I collect all the change I see, even off the floor - I'm not ashamed (though I probably should be).

Don't be ashamed it's free money. Why would anyone not pick up money from the floor?

In theory I'm sure. What should be illegal is actually making pennies. Waste of money. In fact all physical money should cease to exist. Do you know how much we'd save from the process of continually printing money and destroying old money? Millions. Death to money. I think there should just be an app on your phone and you should be able to text money to people.

Or even better, make it like the BUMP app. I just type in $5 and bump my phone to yours, and boom $5 in your account. Win.

That doesn't make sense you want money to not exist yet you want to punch your phone to get money? :confused:

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:56 am

Spend them.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:52 pm

I save all of my change. Recently I took several jars of coins to my credit union and got about $100.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:53 am

I spend them, although I admit that there are times that I end up with an excess of pennies, but right now I've only got four on me. There are times that I prefer using straight cash rather than my credit card or checkbook.

:mellow:

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:04 am

I lose them somehow.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:52 am

We could get the mark of the beast and buy and sell by the mark and if you don't have it you can't buy or sell...

Hehe, I was thinking the same thing.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:43 pm

I save all of my change. Recently I took several jars of coins to my credit union and got about $100.

I have at least that much change in my jar now, not in any rush to turn them in either. Last time I turned in my coins I had enough to purchase a Windows 7 pro edition full license for my new computer.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:59 am

I save all my change and use the pennies for the tax on my Arizona Iced teas....

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:52 am

We could get the mark of the beast and buy and sell by the mark and if you don't have it you can't buy or sell...

I don't understand.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:42 am

Err.... that's illegal isn't it? :tongue:

. I collect all the change I see, even off the floor - I'm not ashamed (though I probably should be).

Quite, I think it's rather insane to remove money from the economic ecosystem. Even if it's just 10p it will be used over and over and over again. But if it's tossed away, it's gone. Even the little things count up.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:41 am

I don't understand.

Then you must already have it. :ahhh:

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:17 am

Generally I'll spend any low value (<10p) change I collect, either on cheap sweets when I get the opportunity (why not?) or, if there is a charity collection box at the counter, my change will go there instead. Anything higher than that I'll normally keep in my wallet for future purchases, or keep in my car for parking meters.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:41 pm

Then you must already have it. :ahhh:

So that means I can trade and sell? Great!
I feel as though we've gone off topic. A friend of my Dad's once took ￡200+ worth of pennies to Sainsbury's (a UK supermarket) and got it converted into notes.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:00 am

Exactly! Your entire identity, written on the safety of your wrist.

Beautiful. :wub:

I can't think of any downsides to our plan at all. :banana:

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:49 am

I give them to my gf who magically makes them disappear.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:10 am

Anything less than 50p and i dont use it. Dont really like touching coins (odd phobia :shrug:

) and i hate having a pocketfull of change.
I also find it annoying when people stand at the counter and start counting out their 2p-20ps to buy something at 2 or 3 pounds. Count it before or come prepared with bigger money !

Also,more on topic, When i was younger my mum used to keep any change in a box, and then every so often sort it and bag it, and then take to a bank to change it for notes etc

» Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:16 pm

I give all my change and some of my cash to my two year old daughter. Because I like when she goes, 'Ooh, muny! Me have?' and then when she gets it she grabs my hand, points to her room and goes, 'Piggy piggy!' then puts the change in her little piggy bank and the cash in her big piggy bank. Then when both are full my wife takes it to the bank and deposits it in my daughter's account.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:50 pm

I have a penny jar that I put them in

Same here.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:41 am

I tend to throw them in charity boxes, or those dishes that anyone can take one if they are short a few cents on what they're buying.

Otherwise coins go into a pile with beer bottle caps. After a few months I throw the pile into a bag bring it to the bank and usually get surprisingly nice stack of bills back in return the teller is going to count it all out anyway so I don't really bother beforehand.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:34 am

In theory I'm sure. What should be illegal is actually making pennies. Waste of money. In fact all physical money should cease to exist. Do you know how much we'd save from the process of continually printing money and destroying old money? Millions. Death to money. I think there should just be an app on your phone and you should be able to text money to people.

Or even better, make it like the BUMP app. I just type in $5 and bump my phone to yours, and boom $5 in your account. Win.

http://i.imgur.com/1ErX7.gif

Anytime I get any change back I always put it in the jar that's on the counter or whatever donation thing they have, except for quarters. I keep those.

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:35 am

Put in a small piggy bank I had since I was 10. It has served me well

» Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:12 pm

I save up all the pennies and the store thats been rudest to me gets to wait on me counting pennies only pennys no silver change or dollars JUST pennys