Good-bye Penny

[WickedLiquid]

So in Canada we have gotten rid of the Penny and now the lowest coin you can carry in your pocket is the nickel. So if something costs $5.31 it will now cost $5.35. Bullshit right?

So my question is what do I do with all my pennies? Save them and hope that one day hundreds of years from now my future generations will make a profit off them? Or chuck them off the CN tower?

 

[Green_Lantern]

So in Canada we have gotten rid of the Penny and now the lowest coin you can carry in your pocket is the nickel. So if something costs $5.31 it will now cost $5.35. Bullshit right?

Um...Everywhere else that doesn't have pennies either rounds up OR down....IE $5.31 would be $5.30

 

[intoTheRain]

actually, sir, if it's 5.31, or 5.32 you pay 5.30. if its 5.33 or 5.34 you pay 5.35.

edit: damn GL beat me to it, and he isnt even canadian?

 

[intoTheRain]

save a bunch polish em up put em in a bucket and pass them down from kids to grand kids etc. they'll be worth something some day, no doubt.

 

[Green_Lantern]

they'll be worth something some day, no doubt.

Highly doubtful.

 

[WickedLiquid]

Everywhere so far has rounded UP, My $1.47 coffee this morning was $1.50 and my $10.21 Subway combo for lunch was $10.25. So yeah, don't believe these lies!

 

[De-Ting]

If the penny was worth getting rid of in the first place, then people should be rounding down.

 

[Green_Lantern]

Honestly though, it's time that the US even gets rid of the penny.

 

[intoTheRain]

they'll be worth something some day, no doubt.

Highly doubtful.

Im talking hundreds and hundreds of years here.

 

[intoTheRain]

Everywhere so far has rounded UP, My $1.47 coffee this morning was $1.50 and my $10.21 Subway combo for lunch was $10.25. So yeah, don't believe these lies!

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I never pay with cash but the only experience i had so far was with the culligan man and he rounded down.

Edit: sorry dont like double quoting on my phone

 

[used44]

There's a liquor store near my house that always rounds down to the nearest .10

 

[WickedLiquid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlBr2fyqn9g

 

[Chris_Crime]

They'll be marching in the streets if they ever try to pull this bullshit off in Texas.

 

[madster111]

my $10.21 Subway combo for lunch was $10.25. So yeah, don't believe these lies!

Didn't your law people make that illegal when they did this?

Because here in Australia you can put $15.02 of fuel in your car and hand over $15 cash. Those 2 cents make all the difference.


The pennies should now also not be legal tender, so you should be able to melt a bunch down and sell the metal, right?
I know US pennies are worth more in metal than their actual value, thus it's illegal to melt them down.

 

[LawnGnome]

Cash is for drug dealers and hookers.

 

[cyberjim2000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU4E6SSy5Yg

 

[danielrbischoff]

PUt 'em all in a sock and hit your friends with it!

 

[Green_Lantern]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU4E6SSy5Yg

I've been waiting for someone to link his other penny video....either way I love CGPGrey.