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Jim
 
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Does anybody carry worthless change anymore?

Jim
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When I get home from town one of the first things I do is put all my change into a jar. I have enough stuff weighing my pants down without having a pocket full of coins. About once a year I take it all to the bank and get folding money. The last time I had over $300.
All of my Grandparents had change purses.
 
This is priceless. You can skip to about the three minute mark, but Ellen's stand up is always good.

 
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Morgan101 said:
This is priceless. You can skip to about the three minute mark, but Ellen's stand up is always good.

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Priceless and so sad.
Unfortunately, also real.
How hopeless is the current generation without their electronic 'umbilical cord' connected to their actual brain which is online...in the clouds?
I would love to watch one simply try to peel potatoes and cook them
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My wife did a similar kind of exercise with a family she babysits for; four little girls ages 5 to 10. Mom had an old Princess phone, and they made a game out of it. See if you can figure out how it works. They did figure it out, and had a lot of fun in the process. I can't really fault her for map folding. That is a skill that has defied mankind for as long as there have been maps. Plenty of people in our generation can't fold a map. The Phone Book? A whole 'nother story. Yes. Your parents should be embarrassed.
 
Amish Heart said:
I still have a change purse. That must make me super old. I like to give exact change.
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I still use one to this day and it is that exact shade of blue.
Never fetch coins out of the dryer.
I rarely use cash but I always take it if I know I am.
So much fun to hand bills and coins to a young person and watch them try to count it.
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Fortunately, I can be 'Super', old.
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If you want to have some real fun, hand them a $2 bill and some dollar coins.
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The entire Burger King ground to a standstill and they had to call the manager.
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You just can't have that much fun for $7 hardly anymore :p.
 
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True story!! I was in my bank getting cash in $20's. One of the bills was old; the much smaller portrait of Andrew Jackson. We all remember those, right? The teller, who was a 20 something, serious as a heart attack, when I commented on it she said " Oh yeah. I just saw one of those. I had to ask my boss if it was real."
 
I actually have a "Fake" $2 bill. I was staying in a hotel... it was late... I ordered a pizza and the light wasn't good in the hall.

The delivery guy passed off a $2 bill in my change that had been made on a copy machine. I don't know if he even realized it. I didn't notice it until the next morning when I got dressed to leave.

I have kept it all these years.
 
Years ago I had lunch in a hospital cafeteria. The cashier was out of dollar bills so she gave me $6.50 in quarters. I told her those were not quarters they were $1 coins. She said there was no such thing and promptly went to the next person. I even told the manager and she said the same thing. No such thing as a $1 coin. So I took my $26 in $1 coins and left. I suspect they got all those coins from someone that also didn't know what they were doing.
I went to a small teriyaki place and there was a $100 bill stuck on the wall. I asked the guy why and he said it was counterfeit and he was waiting for the guy to come back in. I said he might want to call the police because I think it might be illegal to possess a counterfeit 100.
Want to have fun, give the kid behind the cash register a 20 and a 1 to pay for something that costs $10.14 but wait to give them the 1 until they have already rung up the 20. Do NOT be in a hurry when you do it because they most likely will have to call for help. I have even had them cancel the sale and start over.
 
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During the ‘80s I got some of the dollar coins in change. I decided to spend them at a Rally’s fast food restaurant and so I gave the young girl at the drive-through three of the dollar coins. She looked at them and said what are these? I said they are Susan B Anthony dollars to which she responded, who is Susan B Anthony?
 
Peanut said:
I actually have a "Fake" $2 bill. I was staying in a hotel... it was late... I ordered a pizza and the light wasn't good in the hall.

The delivery guy passed off a $2 bill in my change that had been made on a copy machine. I don't know if he even realized it. I didn't notice it until the next morning when I got dressed to leave.

I have kept it all these years.
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Peanut I haven't seen a $2 bill in half a century.
 
That would be worth a small fortune! Just like a double struck coin, it doesn't happen often but when it does there are collectors out there that will pay big money.
 
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