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Top 10 Places That You Absolutely Need to Save Your Leftover Coins For

August 10, 2010 · 3 comments

in Lists, behavioral finance, cashflow, charity, coins, discipline, financial fitness, frugal tips, lifehack, money management, penny, savings, tips

Have a problem with too many leftover coins (yeah, you could have worse problems)?  Too lazy to roll up your coins and deposit them in a bank account? Or do you toss aside your coins because they’re so heavy to carry around, and then find yourself breaking bills all the time just to get a [...]

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Picking Up Pennies, Or, Make Sure You Use Every Cent of Your Paycheck

April 19, 2009 · 7 comments

in frugal tips, paycheck, penny, savings

Let’s say you earn $1,000 per paycheck – you want to have all $1,000 of that, don’t you?  But unless you use a debit or credit card to make your purchases, cash payments mean you’re going to be left over with a bunch of coins.  Many of these will be pennies, and who pays attention [...]

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US Penny Worth More As Metal Than As Money

March 25, 2009 · 3 comments

in inflation, metals, money, penny

Here’s another example of inflation.  When the coins are worth more for their metal value than they are worth as money.  It’s already happened with the US pennies produced from 1909-1982. They’re made of 95% copper and worth 117% more than “one cent.”  Check it out here.
Needless to say, pennies made after 1982 have been [...]

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