I’ve been wishing for them to disappear ever since the US mint replaced the Lincoln Memorial with that cheesy shield design that makes them look like cheap tokens from an arcade (which is what I thought they were, the first time I saw them).
Pennies are how children learn about money – or at least we did. My mom had a box and when I received a penny or two somehow – including my allowance of a penny a week (hey back in the 1950s they were worth money) I could “deposit it” in “the bank”. I would get a notation in my “bank book” for my deposit. I learned to save and budget money from this system. This education has served me well over all these decades. My allowance grew as I got older. When in junior high and high school I received enough to buy lunch every day at school and have something left for me. If I made my lunch at home and brought it to school I still had the lunch money.
Over the years I saved money in the bank box and then in the bank. In junior high I saved enough to myself, parents, and sister to see a Broadway show (much, much cheaper then). When we got married I brought more money to the marriage than the wedding gifts we received and it was the down payment on our house. And it all started with pennies.
Think of the song from Mary Poppins – Fidelity Fiduciary Bank – about depositing tuppence in the bank, after all tuppence is two pennies.
M2MM over 6 years ago
Must be Canadian.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 6 years ago
Pennies add up and before you know it, you can have 50 or 100 bucks in your hands!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 6 years ago
Left you a comment yesterday, Sue Ellen.
pschearer Premium Member over 6 years ago
Come to America. We still mint several billion pennies a year. Oh, wait. U-No-Hoo might not allow you in.
Sassy's Mom over 6 years ago
We use pennies here in the US.
metagalaxy1970 over 6 years ago
When I first moved to where I am at, I had found a pile of pennies. Whoever threw them out just saw pennies, I saw 33cents.
paullp Premium Member over 6 years ago
I’ve been wishing for them to disappear ever since the US mint replaced the Lincoln Memorial with that cheesy shield design that makes them look like cheap tokens from an arcade (which is what I thought they were, the first time I saw them).
mafastore over 6 years ago
Pennies are how children learn about money – or at least we did. My mom had a box and when I received a penny or two somehow – including my allowance of a penny a week (hey back in the 1950s they were worth money) I could “deposit it” in “the bank”. I would get a notation in my “bank book” for my deposit. I learned to save and budget money from this system. This education has served me well over all these decades. My allowance grew as I got older. When in junior high and high school I received enough to buy lunch every day at school and have something left for me. If I made my lunch at home and brought it to school I still had the lunch money.
Over the years I saved money in the bank box and then in the bank. In junior high I saved enough to myself, parents, and sister to see a Broadway show (much, much cheaper then). When we got married I brought more money to the marriage than the wedding gifts we received and it was the down payment on our house. And it all started with pennies.
Think of the song from Mary Poppins – Fidelity Fiduciary Bank – about depositing tuppence in the bank, after all tuppence is two pennies.