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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Making change
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 09:40:47 -0400
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On 5/12/2025 5:19 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2025-05-12, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 2025-05-10, ItsJoanNotJoAnn <ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I find it hard to comprehend that somebody, anybody,
>>> doesn't teach people how to count change back when
>>> not given the correct change or their cash register
>>> is down.  It only takes once or twice practicing
>>> to learn how to count the change back.
>>
>>
>> I literally haven't used change since the pandemic started (March 15,
>> 2020) for me.
> 
> I sometimes use change, to keep up my street cred as an old lady.
> Mostly it get left along with the tip at our local mom & pop Chinese
> joint.
> 
>> I still have some change in my truck, but it's starting to
>> get an aged patina on it. Is old metal money worth anything?
> 
> It's still worth its face value.
> 
>> Is any
>> metal money worth anything? Let's drop the decimal after the dollar
>> sign and move on.
> 
> It might be an impetus to get retailers to incorporate sales tax
> into the listed price of goods.
> 

Rounding would be good too.  My purchase on this trip was $3.75 but with 
tax it came to $4.01.  I didn't have a penny and did not want four of 
them so I gave him a nickle and left.  Some places do have pennies 
sitting at the register for times like that.

I used to go to a farm stand that was great.  $5.20 was just $5.  I 
reciprocated at times, $4.80 was also $5.