Sigma,this may be why you don't have ANY cents !

The proper way to pick up a coin (if walking with someone):

1. Bend down and pick up coin, bending the knees and keeping your back straight.

2. Wipe off both sides of coin.

3. Do a double-take and exclaim: "Wow, a 1952 P obverse double strike!"

4. Grin and:

if coin is a penny, say "This baby is worth 35-40 dollars!"

if coin is a nickel, say "This baby is worth around 74 dollars!"

if coin is a dime, say "This baby is worth more than 100 dollars!"

if coin is a quarter, say "This baby is worth at least 200 dollars!". (perform optional dance of joy, depending upon your dexterity, plus ground and weather conditions).

I will certainly pick up change, I'm scared not to (bad karma), unless its tails up, then I will bend over, flip it to heads up, and leave the luck for someone else.

Money is money, and I'm not gonna pass it by. All I know is those trips to the bank to cash in all that loose change makes me smile as they hand me greenbacks in return ( and usually more change to start all over again. ) Besides, that lone & solitary dime in the dirt could be as old as that dirt and worth something. You never know!

I have a recurring dream in which I see a coin on the ground and when I go to pick it up I see another one and another one and then maybe I'll find a dollar or two and so on. It's kind of a fun dream!

But in real life - if I come across a penny on the floor of my house when I'm vacuuming it gets sucked up. If I see a penny on the ground I put it in my shoe for good luck, but only if it's heads up.

Hey Sigma, Please feel free to unload your unwanted useless spare change on me everyday if you want. I will even let you feel like you really burdened me with it and all but never the less I would take it.
Anyone else who feels that loose change is a burden and would rather get rid of it, I will put a change resepticle in my front yard and you all can drop it off and get rid of that troublesome change wieghing down your pockets and falling all over everything. I could put it to good use for you. Or me.

JCK, I am not saying I do not agree with it, I actually do agree but I also think it is funny how they are going about it. Claiming illegal money as income only opens the door for "business expenses". Lets say someone sells $20,000 in drugs on the street. Then takes the money and buys a new car so they can drive to where ever to buy more drugs to sell. That makes the car a tax deduction, and the gas put in it. Anyway, it is rather funny. Especially the stolen property clause where if you return a stolen item to its owner you don't have to pay the taxes. Okay, so someone steals a computer and TV from you. Then on Dec. 31st you find it on your front porch step so the thief does not legally have to claim it as income. Then on Jan. 1st they are out stealing someone elses to use for the year. Lets train our crooks well and all look forward to getting our belongings back at the end of the year. Kind of like a tax refund except we can call it a property refund.

Change is literally a burden and I think they should just do away with it. Its inconvenient, a pain, sucks having in your pockets. What cost less than $1. anyways?? Hardly anything.

Found 50 cents in a goodwill purse !)
I pick up pennies too.

hg, having a line on which to claim drug money or the proceeds from a theft is just another way for the authorities to include additional charges against someone when they are caught. Obviously it's unlikely anyone is going to report income from those sources and I seriously doubt the IRS thinks that they will. So when they arrest someone on a related charge they can pull their tax records, see that they didn't report any income from that activity and add additional criminal charges for evading taxes.

I don't have a problem with that at all but let's call a spade a spade.

I forgot to mention earlier...I found a small bag from a local depart. store last weekend in the parking lot and turned it in to the store. It had two new beaded necklaces in, that you wear around your neck to hook onto your eye glasses.

Oldvet: You are soooo right. My liberal friends and myself won't pick up anything short of $50. As a matter of fact, I'm demanding a raise in my welfare check. This $1,000 a month I'm receiving just doesn't buy enough beer and drugs. GET REAL BOZO!

I'm with you too Steve but better watch out who you tell. Did you see the article the other day on MSN that line 21 on the 1040 tax form shall also include income made from selling illegal drugs and that stolen property shall be considered income to be reported on line 21 also? Next thing you know they will have line 21A for change you find on the ground. It will be considered income also. Of course the stolen property income did have a clause. If you return the property to the rightful owner before Dec. 31st it is not considered income. Leave it to the Goverment to actually think people selling illegal drugs or possessing stolen property will actually report it on their taxes. But you know what? I be there will be someone, somewhere who does.

I'll pick up a penny or any other denomination of money I see laying on the ground. I keep all of my pennies in a jar at home and when my grandson's school is taking a collection for some purpose I give them to him to take in.

I'd say you're in the norm, Steve. I also take the time to pick up change.

growing up in the 1930's you bet I will pick it up. you never forget.

I'm with ya. I pick up all change I find. A few months ago I found a $10 bill in a gas station parking lot. I thought I saw money when I drove in & when I left I got out & verified & sure enough. Dixon, IL. Hometown of Ronald Reagan.

I found $22.00 in cash in a public parking lot in Janesville several months back and gave it to Echo.

Walking through the mall the other day and two kids stop and look at a dime on floor, mom says leave it, score, I got me a dime!

If you head to the parking lot where they had last weekend’s donnybrook, you might find some loose change along with a couple of teeth!

Yeah I'll pick up any coin even a penny. Only Democrats/socialists won't. They prefer getting larger sums handed to them from taxpayers.

I`m with ya Steve, and I retired at age 49 btw. Coincidence?