Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cindy Hamilton Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Making change Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 14:04:29 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <5db0fb745cae8804added8db07e1f419@www.novabbs.org> Reply-To: hamilton@invalid.com Injection-Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 16:04:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fa28455bbd764623af50db8bef0ab01a"; logging-data="1195196"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/RwfJIHzWPvrKdAQlGuEubx48TTPOhq4g=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nFRd0q+ea8C6O00u2oiBZyVNywo= On 2025-05-12, Dave Smith wrote: > On 2025-05-11 10:47 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote: >> On 2025-05-10, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote: >> >> >> I literally haven't used change since the pandemic started (March 15, >> 2020) for me. 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? Is any >> metal money worth anything? Let's drop the decimal after the dollar >> sign and move on. >> Wait! Paper pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, that's the ticket! >> Shut down the Treasury coin minters! I should get in touch with Elon. >> DOGE! DOGE! DOGE! >> Alas, a printed penny piece of paper is still worth more than a penny, >> and I don't want my taxes to pay for it. :( > > We stopped using pennies more than a decade ago. Nobody misses them. > Totals are round up or down. It was a real waste to have a heavy coin > that was worth so little. A U.S. penny weighs 2.5 grams. Not a lot for the consumer. Quite a bit for the businesses, banks, and mints that have to deal with them in quantity. > Gone are the days when a kid could go into a > candy store and waste 10 minutes of the store owner's time figuring out > how much of each he could get with his three pennies. Ten minutes? Amateur. There was a store right across the street from my grade school that sold mostly candy, although I bet they had cigarettes and grownup stuff as well. -- Cindy Hamilton