Loose Change

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DWS

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657 posts

217 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I was in our local shopping centre at Lunchtime queuing to pay for something. The 20 something girl with a baby in a buggy dropped her purse spilling a load of change on the floor. She picked up the higher value coins but left 54p in silver and copper. Just walked off!

I picked it up and gave it to the army chap who was collecting.


How much would you consider not picking up?

AlexHat

1,327 posts

118 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I don't actively pick up coppers if I drop them

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

264 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I picked up a penny I dropped a few weeks ago. I fumbled it through the fingers of my crippled hand - it happens annoyingly frequently and my response has more to do with how I feel about the dropping than it does the value of the coin.

Also a tiny polite part of me is worried that it's littering.

Sheets Tabuer

18,895 posts

214 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I can honestly say I haven't had any cash on me of any sort for months, I use my card for everything.

OdramaSwimLaden

1,971 posts

168 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I still think that sellers of the Big Issue should carry card machines...it would invalidate the excuse they get most of all.

cloggy

4,959 posts

208 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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OdramaSwimLaden said:
I still think that sellers of the Big Issue should carry card machines...it would invalidate the excuse they get most of all.
Feck em.

nicanary

9,749 posts

145 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I always pick up coins I've dropped. Why wouldn't you? If you don't it's sheer laziness, unless you've got a disability. And, as has been said, technically it's dropping litter, and punishable with a fine, which would be more than you've dropped.

I walk looking down all the time, it's amazing how much you can pick up. Found a tenner once. And as for people who pay by card for everything - think of the retailer. They have to pay a charge to their business bankers for every card transaction, whether it's a debit card or a credit card. Even for small amounts, it all adds up - the shop I work for pays charges of about £2/300 per month because people can't be bothered to get cash out of an ATM.

D1bram

1,500 posts

170 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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She was probably flustered, embarrassed and being encumbered with a young child just wanted to move away as quickly as possible.

Petrolhead95

7,043 posts

153 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I hate carrying around coins; a pet hate of mine. At the Goodwood meet last Sunday I chucked £8 worth of coins into the charity box as I couldn't be arsed to carry them around.

rohrl

8,711 posts

144 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Some of you lot have more money than sense. Look after the pennies and eventually you'll have a load of pennies.

croyde

22,701 posts

229 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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rohrl said:
Some of you lot have more money than sense. Look after the pennies and eventually you'll have a load of pennies.
hehe

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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If I drop a coin it is rare for it to hit the floor!

Jaroon

1,441 posts

159 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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If I drop a penny and it lands heads up, I will leave it for someone to pick up and have some good luck. If it's tails up, I will pick it up myself and spare a stranger any bad luck. Bare in mind I have massive ocd and more than a touch of superstition, which is totally harmless (touch wood).

Sheets Tabuer

18,895 posts

214 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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JPJPJP said:
If I drop a coin it is rare for it to hit the floor!
Hits you on the back of your head?

hacksaw

748 posts

116 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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JPJPJP said:
If I drop a coin it is rare for it to hit the floor!
I'm the same, proper Yorkshireman! In fact, that's how copper wire was invented, 2 Yorkshireman fighting over a penny...

justanother5tar

1,314 posts

124 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Card for everything. On the very rare occasion I have any change I throw it in little ones piggy bank.

Patch1875

4,893 posts

131 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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We put all change 20p and under into a big optic bottle and save every year for holiday spending money, had £450 this year.

750turbo

6,164 posts

223 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Apologies for the wail link...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246662/St...

Local to me, fined for dropping a tenner!

And as for that sneezing at the wheel!

br d

8,388 posts

225 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I was in a German market at the weekend and dropped a coin onto the cobbles, what with having no glasses on and being unfamiliar with Euro coins I thought it was something small and just walked on. I think it must have been a 2 Euro coin though judging by the fact that 3 people almost knocked each other out diving for it from 3 different directions!

nicanary

9,749 posts

145 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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750turbo said:
Apologies for the wail link...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246662/St...

Local to me, fined for dropping a tenner!

And as for that sneezing at the wheel!
I can't see how dropping a tenner in the street can be deemed as littering - nobody would do it deliberately, unlike chucking away a few coppers because you can't be bothered to carry them. That's one weird piece of reasoning.

Like several posters, I keep all the loose change I find or get fed up with carrying, bag it up, and shove it in the bank. Why drop it if there's a charity tin on the shop counter?

Like I said, folks paying for small purchases by card are causing unnecessary costs to small businesses, who can ill afford them in the economic climate. Please be reasonable.