a Penny saved....

I am a cheap SOB and will pick up a penny.You can never tell when you(or someone else) may need that penny.Some stores are really tight when it comes to change and if the total was $10.01,you know you will get alot of change.I do like the idea of a penny cup in stores.

Money's money,lol I pic k it up, though not if it's a penny face down, that's bad luck.One night in a place I worked a co-worker and I, wouldnt pick one up off the floor mat so we kicked at it until it was heads up.We're dorks!

Pennies,nickles,dimes,and quarters if it is money I pick it up or point it out to my daughter. My brother is one of those incredibly lucky people it is like he can smell money and he regularly finds $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills every where. this is the same one who while 9 years old (I was just one at the time) we lived in Germany and he jumps off the swing and starts digging in the sand and finds about !5.00 in german money in the sand!!! As a teenager (we lived in harrison AR at the time army brats we were) he would go into A & W and stick his hands in the pool table pockets and come out with money.

Funny to have come upon this discussion. Today my sister wanted to treat me to a cup of coffee from Dunkin Donuts. My brother who works there just got off his shift. He came over to the car while we waited in line and on the ground where he stood he spied a penny. He bent to pick it up and found another, and another and another. What he didn't find I was pointing out to him. He found about 15 pennies in all. A penny saved is a penny earned. If I find a penny on the ground I pick it up, unless it is covered in a nasty substance.

i rarely see change on the street anymore.. i think everyone beat me to it LOL but usually unless it's a silver coin,i don't bother.

Well I usually don't notice loose change on the floor, and if I do, I never really go to pick it up. A penny isn't really worth that much, and I'd probably end up losing it myself.

Well I pick up mere pennies on here all Day. I can spend a lot of time on a thread reading it and most of the responses, then more time to type in my response. It is funny to see the ones that said no and it was not worth it, then they spend 3 minutes typing and reading to get their 2-3 cents for it!LOL I think everyone on mylot should see the way that pennies add up to dollars. I have $21.43 and I made it by saving pennies from responses. They really do add up!

I am like your husband and will pick up anything that someone else has thrown away . A penny may not mean much but if you throw all your pennies away they would add up and I don't believe in wasting money no matter what it is . We work on here everyday for pennies a day yet we all still do it and we also see how in a short period of time our pennies can add up , not enough to ever make us rich by any means but we do earn money each month to say we made something :)

I pick up pennies. A few years ago, I received an email about saying a little prayer when you find a penny. Why not? On it, it states "in God we trust." So, now when I find a penny, I thank God for my good fortune and ask him to bless me and my family.

Sure I always pick up pennies from the pavement, if I see them. My family always said it was good luck, although I never had any extroardinay luck. Actualy no luck at all in my life but I still pick them up. Odd. I am in Canada and I have picked up more USA pennies than I can count. (lol)

I pick up every penny I see because it is a learned habit from childhood. My first-grade teacher did not believe me when I told her that a dime she found was mine. So, in order to get my brownie-scout dues paid, I searched for pennies underneath the monkey bars after the little boys were through playing. Luckily for me I found a few pennies that gradually reduced my IOU's. Since dues were only 8 cents, and my mother sided with the teacher, it was the only way I knew how to get the money. To this day I realize the importance of pennies.

I pick up every penny I see because it is a learned habit from childhood. In first grade my teacher did not believe me when I told her the dime she found was mine, so in order to get my brownie-scout dues paid I discovered that if I checked the monkey bars after the little boys got off there I would usually find a few pennies to get them paid. In those days, the dues were only 8 cents so it was not too hard to scrape up.

Regardless of what denomination is that if I saw a money on the ground I'm going to bend it and pick it up for you can't have a dollar without a penny. I adore people who are doing that and not ashame of it. Ya, right is like a lucky penny to me too. If you can pick up a lot just like your husband, then you can buy a burger for the day already. Not bad haah!

I heard, in Germany, they call this small coin as "Glücksgeld", lucky money.

I always pick up pennies, I'm not rich enough to let any money go by without salvaging it. I think its horriffic that people can throw miney away, if its not of use to them, why don't they put it in a charity box so it can do some good for those less fortunate?

I like to pick up coins off the ground - I think it's lucky, and hey, every cent adds up.

No matter what the amount of money is its still a money..!! And for me its precious..!You can get a worth million dollar smile form that little coin by giving it to a beggar or to a real needy!! I feel no shame in pikcing up coins in public..!! Its like each and evrey drop fills the ocean..!

My parents used to say the same thing, and yes I do pick up pennies. We have a piggy bank just for pennies and we collect them all year, then we turn them into the bank and use them when we go camping. You would be surprised at how many pennies you can find lying around and how they add up. My son even helps gather pennies for our penny bank.

I am one of those people who are happy when they pick up a penny. I feel that if you are too good to pick up free money, then all the more for me. I get laughed at sometimes when I bend down and pick up pennies. It is not only bending down and picking up pennies, I also look at the change thing in newspaper racks, soda machines and even change machines. I have gotten more than a dollar out of a soda machine from people not getting the money out. I have gotten five dollars (no joke) from a machine. I was so happy that I had my lunch paid for. So whether it be penny or more, I will always pick up. You never know, you may just find paper money. The most paper money I found was $20. I say yeah to all those who bend down to pick up that copper piece of currency. I always think of that old saying "see a penny, pick it up, and all day pick it up." I also make a wish on it.

A quarter. Otherwise I'd just start collecting change and stretching my wallet out.. then, I might have more money. But where I'm from, it's rare to find anything on the streets. I live in a tourist down and we have a huge vacuum car thing that goes around and vacuums the streets. I did find a ten on the ground once. I was DEFINATELY inspired to pick THAT up.