Coins That Lie On The Road, Do We Have The Heart To Pick Them Up?

If I happen to see coins I do pick them up and put it in my car compartment. They are useful for paying parking tickets. These coins can also be added to the piggy bank. Your'll be surprised when you break the piggy bank at the end of the year that it can help you to buy extra x'mas presents.

i think that any coin value should be picked up when seen because if we dont then the children will run out on the street eagerly to get them and not be looking for cars coming and chances are they would get hit by a car

I pick up money as often as possible. You see I have a complete understanding that 1+1=2, which means I will have more money after I pick up a coin or money than I had before.

You know my mum always use to say to us when we were young, "if you see a penny pick it up, then all day you have good luck" LOL I don't know if I ever did but when I do see a penny i pick it up (if I can get to it LOL).

I pick them up - even if it hurts to lean over.

Why not? God is sending you money. I will pick it up if it is not too dirty (lol) and if no one is looking (I am shy). :P

I always pick up coins I find lying on the streets, unless they are in the middle of the road and I risk being run over. I think most people are ashamed to do this, some are just too lazy to bend, and some just cannot be bothered.

i still do pick them up when i see them lying on the street.one for luck and the second one is to put it in my coin box in my car.it would pay for my parking fee,ain't that luck!if i saw these 5 centavo,10 centavo or even i centavo coin , i would surely pick them up because that would be very useful in paying my water and electric bill!

even a penny still money. i will pick up the money lying on the streets.maybe they felt shy to bend their waist to pick up a penny on street nowdays,but i dont care about what other people thinking of me or put a eyesight on what i was done.

i do pick up those coins no matter how small their value is. i ven pick a P5 peso coin sometime last year and i never spend it. lol. my purpose is o have a remembrance of where i got it. =)

whenever i see coins in the streets i pick them up because i consider them blessings from above. no matter how small the value is, i still consider it worthy of because there could never be a peso without a 1 or 5 centavo coin. these coins could be collected for future use. you may need them for payment of services like photocopying, buying retail products, giving alms, donations to fund raising organizations, car washing, and for children who sing carols during christmas time.

I remember a sort of a story told by a priest during homily: he borrowed a five hundred peso bill and crumpled it. Then he threw it on the ground, stepped on it and crushed it under his feet. Then he picked it up and asked the people: who among you want this 500 peso bill? Of course everybody raised their hand. It is still worth 500 even after being soiled and stepped on and almost destroyed. He then explained that the same thing happens to us in our relationship with God. God will still accept us even as we appear trampled upon, dirty, poor and torn apart. God looks upon our value as a person, what is in our nature, and not upon our physical attributes. Now going back to your point, well I just thought the above story illustrates what we think of appearances. I mean, between us adults and them, children. Like you said, children will always be happy to find a coin because for them, this represents something else, a goody to be had in exchange for this coin. For us adults, that coin is simply, well a coin, that represents nothing more than a mere drop in the ocean. In the vast vault of wisdom we adults have, the coin is worthless because we need millions of them in order for it to make a difference and we don't have the patience to look for a million others. A child doesn't need those millions. He sees one and he knows it can satisfy, albeit temporarily, his needs for the moment. And that is the reason he is happy just with one. As for adults, we will never be happy because by nature, we need more and thus seek more, and being frustrated by not finding more, we become unhappy.

I would also pick a coin. It's a good luck sign so I pick it even if it is not of a big value.

Um, I'm not sure it's a question of "heart" to notice a small, dirty penny on the sidewalk and pick it up. It's a matter of chance to notice it and stress to expend the effort to bend down and pick it up.

lol ...this is so funny ... i have always picked up coins lying around anywhere the floor the street by the gum ball machines :) ...I have started a bank for my two year old and thats where every bit of that money goes ...it might just be a peeny today or a dime tommorrow but as she is two now what will it be in eighteen years ??? I can't wait to see ...I actaully have filled one bank and am using the folgers containers now ...cut a slit in the top of the lid and boom instamnt bank :) Next chore will be to start rolling all the coins wow thats going to be fun too :) but hey its for her so its all worth the effort .

I do tend to pick the pennies up and given them a good home. They go into my savings bottle and it's amazing how fast the amount can add up.

I pick up any penny,nickle or dime I find.They all go in my change jar and every so often I take it to this machine called Coinstar.Believe it or not....but this last time I got nearly $58 just from saving my change.A penny may not seem like much....but it adds up.

piece by piece of coins picked up from the road will still give you value. When collected, try to exchange it in the bank and the latter will accept it.

I pick coins up if their nominal value are 50 cents or more. But if there are a lot of people around me I don't do that.

i love finding coins on street.It does add up.I've even found some that are worth alot.