My grandfather talked of the days of the great depression. He worked for Amour and Co from the day they opened until the day they closed down for good. He said in worst days of the depression the managers called a meeting of all employees. He was told there would be no firings or layoffs, BUT, they did not have enough work for everyone. They had to share a job, so grand dad only worked every other day. In a time he was making what is pocket change now in a week. He would have fought for a penny. But that was a loaf of bread, or a quart of milk for his family.

I never even look at the price of the food I am buying. It is whatever it costs. I swipe the card, and forget it. I see the charge a day later when I download the transactions. I am not going to skip buying food whatever the price.

Yep, many/most/all of us here are likely super fortunate. I hear all of the talk about the cost of gas. I rarely even notice the cost. I need gas to go places, so I get gas. I supposed if I frequently drove many/high miles, the cost might be more important to me.

I am pretty sure I am the luckiest guy who frequents this place. I think maybe a lot of people do not appreciate how fortunate they are, maybe most people.

You hit it from the side, rather than try to pick it up.

About the only coin I will not pick up is a penny that is not heads up

I once read that it's not worth Bill Gates time to pick up a $100 bill as he makes more on interest of his accounts than it takes the 2-3 seconds to pick up the bill. :eek:

I move the money around in the hopes a little kid will find it and it makes their day.

Yep, no doubt folks like Bezos, Gates, whoever the new Apple guy is, Warren Buffet, etc... make money faster than I can spend it.

Still, that's a silly statement. It's not like he stops making money if he bends down to pick up $100.

A friend and I were walking home from a bar in the keys, feeling no pain when we stumbled across what looked like a spilled change purse on the sidewalk. Dozens of quarters, nickels, dimes.....

After the shaking of the heads, and the do we really see what we see dialog, we bent over to try to collect our newfound 'loot'. All of the coins were neatly glued to the sidewalk.

Luckily we don't have pennies here because I can't bend over like I used to be able to :D

Neil Degrasse Tyson on picking up change and Bill Gates.

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Being a germaphobe, I don’t pick up coins. I will pick up paper money though.

Which reminds me, years ago I was in a bar and I saw a $20 bill on the floor. As I went to pick it up, it went flying off. A guy had it rigged up to some kind of quick wind and pull that trick all night long on everybody. It was humorous.