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 09:19:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <5db0fb745cae8804added8db07e1f419@www.novabbs.org> Reply-To: hamilton@invalid.com Injection-Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 11:19:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fa28455bbd764623af50db8bef0ab01a"; logging-data="1076463"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18I5mlgJoFw6yM+lYAs3TlrsamxtBIAT2c=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PZKc6E91TNMLsfxXFFuGegCMFSo= On 2025-05-12, Leonard Blaisdell wrote: > On 2025-05-10, ItsJoanNotJoAnn 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. -- Cindy Hamilton