Your Lucky Penny

[Glinda]

If you saw a penny on the ground, would you stop and pick it up? How about a nickel? A dime? A quarter? How about coins totaling 67 cents? 94 cents? Just what is your price???

For those of you who don't use American currency, please translate into your own currency. I'm sure you get the general idea.

 

[Ameriscot]

No pennies. Might pick up a 5 pence piece. I'll pick up any that are higher than that.

 

[NancyNGA]

Yes, I pick up pennies.

 

[hollydolly]

Yep I'd pick a penny up..of course Why not,? if I found a million pennies over my lifetime I'd have £10,000

 

[Falcon]

I'll pick up ANY denomination of coins. EVEN a PENNY ! There's something about a "found" penny that's supposed to bring good luck.

I'll continue to do so, as long as I can get back up from a bending position.

 

[3horsefarm]

Of course I pick up pennies! I have almost $50 worth of them in a jar now.

 

[Lynk]

Yes I pick up pennies. I like to think of them as pennies from heaven.

 

[AZ Jim]

It depends on two things Glinda, knees and back.

 

[jujube]

My grandmother firmly believed that to see a penny and not pick it up was just asking for bad luck. Sort of like passing up good luck. So to this day, I can't pass a penny without stooping to pick it up. And if it's heads up, then it's EXTRA luck.

 

[Josiah]

I always pick up pennies. During our business trips I would walk around motel parking lots in the evening for exercise and often, very often I'd find a penny. I'm not superstitious, but I confess I looked upon these pennies as good omens.

 

[Lon]

I always stop to pick up a coin no matter what the value.

 

[Jackie22]

No, I don't bother, a quarter...yes.

 

[3horsefarm]

Pennies actually add up pretty quickly. I bought my new tv with saved pennies, about half of them 'found pennies'.

 

[Pappy]

Yes, but only if it's heads up. Paper money preferred.

 

[Shalimar]

Me too, Pappy, found fifty bucks on an empty beach once!

 

[Pappy]

Great...me, two $25.00 chips in a casino. At least I won that night.

 

[Cookie]

Don't bother bending down for small change, I leave it for someone else, but will touch the ground for a ten or twenty - I love free money too.

 

[3horsefarm]

I grew up very poor. I understand the value of a simple penny.

 

[Cookie]

We have many street people here in my city, any small change they find they certainly need more than I do.

 

[John C]

Reminds me of the song, Penny Candy from New Faces of 1954 which I saw in San Francisco while my ship was in dry dock. The show was the one that introduced Ertha Kitt (she sang Monotonous). Alice Ghostly and Ronnie Graham were other newcomers to the stage.

 

[3horsefarm]

No street people here. They could probably use the bills too.

 

[Linda]

My husband picks them up all the time and they really add up. I'll pick them up if I think I'll be able to straighten back up after I bend over.

 

[Ameriscot]

I have a big jar of pennies that just sits and has for years as I'm too lazy to turn them into real money.

 

[Mike]

A found penny is only lucky if you pass it on quickly,
according to som areas of Scotland.

Mike.

 

[RadishRose]

I have picked them up but lately, not. At one of the discount food markets here, to cut costs by not having an employee bring carts back from the lot, you have to put a quarter into the lock to free the cart. The assumption is you want that quarter back so badly, you will return the cart, lock it up and get the coin back. Lately, I've just given the cart to an incoming shopper, refuse their quarter & tell them to pass it on.

The earlier comments about back and knees precluding picking up pennies apply to me and once "freed" from the delusions about pennies, fortunate enough that I don't have to count them at least for now, I don't care about small change so much anymore.