I don't like all these 1 cent pennies. I never take them along with me. All these pennies just pile up in the car and in the house. Ugh.

I think the country should stop the production of the humble and mostly useless penny. Who agrees?

And I don't want you 2 cents of thoughts. 5 cents would be alright.

I still use two dollar bills wherever I go. They are so useful. I have to go to the bank just to get them. So are the dollar coins. To bad people COLLECT THEM instead of spend them. Idiots.

I don't mind the pennies.

Same here. If you're bored, just throw them at people.

It's just because they arent something you see every day. You can get them at any bank, and they aren't worth any more than 2 dollars. The best part about using them is watching cashiers try to figure out where to put them in the cash register because they dont have a tray designated for 2's.

Us Canadians have 1 and 2 dollar coins. We use them.

I agree, pennies are useless and should be banned. Who wants this pillbox full of pennies?

Pennies should die horribly.

Yeah, and no more 19.99 prices either. Of coarse 19.95 would still be around, but prices would have to be tax included. It'd make things allot simpler.

Yes, of course. Consisting of large particles; not fine in texture: coarse sand.

I don't mind pennies, but I never really use them. It'd be a lot easier to change the prices of things so they come out to a number ending in 0 or 5.

Wha-ha?

You should replace the $1 bill with a coin at the same time, save your treasury a lot of money in the long-run.

My cousin has a metal disposal company. If you send me all your pennies I can get rid of them for you.

Pennies are actually used when transactions do not come out evenly in a multiple of 5-cent denomination.

I like pennies blah

It'd be more work to get rid of the penny.


That said, they're quite useful. As a cashier, I give out alot of pennies.

I also give out many pennies. It's funny to watch old people wait for you with their hands out for a single penny in change.

we got rid of one and two cent coins ageas ago. we just round the total price to the nearest 5 cents. much easier.

also, we melted a whole lots of them down to make the bronze medals for the sydney olympics.

I bet there are many shops in cities that are places where lots of cruise ships stop.

I say this because when I went on a cruise in alaska, I bought something from a shop, thinking that the marked price was the actual amount that I would pay, and hjaving just enough to pay that amount, upon going to the counter, I find out that the price does not include tax.

The let me have the markedx price as they obviously relised that scince there where a large number of ships docked, I was most likely on a cruise and came from a country here tax is included on the sticker price.

Yes. Just hilarious.

Dollar coins blow. when i take the train it costs $11. If you have a $20, you get screwed and have to carry $9 in dollar coins, which isnt fun.

9 coins?

that is why we have this thing called, change. if you are at a booth, they wil have a cash register. and the ticket machines will also have change in them.

they are big, noisy, heavy. Id rather carry around paper money for higher denominations. Sitting down they slide out of your pockets, and I dont want to lose $9 on the subway because it was in coins and I didnt notice them slip out.

Echoman, I'll take all your pennies.

What if you find something half off? You couldn't resist it, but you would have no pennies.

You know what sucks. I had 4 singles, and I bought something at starbucks for 3.80 and of course... the tax pushed it over to 4.06 so I had to use a twenty

I stuffed them under the checks on my drawer whenever I got one. Never had a problem.

I like toonies.

If you hate pennies so much, use credit or debit more often. Safer, too.

Some places charge extra for debit/credit.

What places are these? Because no place I've been to has ever charged me extra for using a credit card.

We need the penny. Sometimes transactions will not come out to match just nickels. Especially since taxes can change at whims.

Monetary pet peeve: Transactions comprising of $X.X6 or $X.X1. You get four pennies back. I despise that.

Second monetary pet peeve: People who will NOT "round up" or "round down" I have a transaction coming to $2.02 I have three dollars on me, I ask "spare me two pennies" They reply NO. Thus I have to give them the third dollar and carry three quarters, two dimes, and three pennies around in me pocket. I was purchasing a report binder for an assignment. The total came to like $2.02 and I was shy two pennies. I asked, "front me just two cents" She mulled and thought then finally snatched the two dollars then huffed at me.

I take it DSett has never been a cashier before. Do the cashiers you go to fumble around when you give them a fifty simply because there is no partition in the till designed for a fifty dollar bill? All the cashiers I've ever seen have put them underneath the till along with hundred dollar bills, coupons, credit card signatures, traveler's checks, WIC, and god knows what other obscure forms of tender and paperwork.

The merchant has to chalk up the cost of debit/credit transactions. Some places have a minimum on debit/credit purchases to help alleviate this cost. For example, the Dairy Queen I used to work at wouldn't accept debit/credit unless the order was at least five dollars. While this does penalize the customer a bit and make some very angry, I have never actually seen a place that literally charges you for debit/credit transactions.

Okay, and seriously, what the hell? You're by far the rude person in a situation like that. Who do you expect to pay for 1% of your purchase? The business? The cashier? The guy who thought is change was going toward some good cause and is now being used to cover your expense, which is your responsibility? If you are expecting the business to cover the cost, you must realize that the cashier by default is to blame for a short till. The paperwork states that there should be $523.56 in the till at the end of the day, but because of you, it is actually $523.54. Too many of those isn't very good for a cashier.

If you're expecting the cashier to pay for it out of his or her own pocket, then that is quite rude and tactless, no? In essence, you're telling them to pay for part of your purchase just because you don't want to be inconvenienced. I've got news for you, pal. If you don't want to be inconvenienced by change, then *you* chalk up the bill. *You* donate your change to whatever good cause 99% of businesses support, rather than shortchanging the company and people who work there.

Seriously, your pet peeves are really stupid. For the first one, all you need to do is hand the cashier one of the four pennies you obtained from one of these transactions you so despise, and viola! No pennies!

So much time must be wasted creating, processing, transferring, transporting, rolling, and depositing pennies. I hate them and they smell, I throw them at birds because I also hate birds.

I'm glad they quit making these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:100kus.jpg

I mean, where the hell would you get change for something like that? :p

It's a gold note, so it was (and probably still is) redeemable for gold at a bank. Even if you found a bank that had that much gold, how could you possibly carry $100,000 worth of gold?

Not really, Freelancer. They have those penny plates to relieve BOTH of JG's pet peeves. It'd just be something that would be nice. I mean, 2 cents...dude, I'd pay that. Not for everyone who comes through, but then again, everyone who comes through doesn't ask me to pay it. A lot of them write checks or have credit cards and whatnot.

Don't you think you're taking that a little too much? Are you really going to cry or lose sleep because a few extra cents are unaccounted for? Two cents here. Two measily cents. I'm not asking for an entire nickel or dime. But two cents. Many of us deemed the value of the penny here all ready to be shy of worthless. I don't know about you, but I don't think convienence stores or my aforementioned bookstore is going to be that meticulous. Have you or your acquaintences worked in a position handling a cash register? Yoshi's right, they have those little trays for people like me. I think they're a God-send.