So... how are we going to buy things with cash without pennies? I'm mostly talking about when you receive change from the cashier... we're going to make everything in $.05 increments?

(11-13-2025 11:18 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  So... how are we going to buy things with cash without pennies? I'm mostly talking about when you receive change from the cashier... we're going to make everything in $.05 increments?

If your purchase comes out to $1.03, it rounds up to $1.05.

If your purchase comes out to $1.02, it rounds down to $1.00.

i now wear nickel loafers

(11-13-2025 11:18 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  So... how are we going to buy things with cash without pennies? I'm mostly talking about when you receive change from the cashier... we're going to make everything in $.05 increments?

it's scary how easy it is to price something at x when one knows the tax rate to either end with a 5 or a 0 ... c'mon, mayun ...

if digi, you can count to the penny w/o losing a winks sleep...

regardless, the round-up has begun ...

(11-13-2025 11:43 AM)Unionman76 Wrote:  i now wear nickel loafers

if only you had the companion muzzle attaché to go with...

(11-13-2025 11:36 AM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 11:18 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  So... how are we going to buy things with cash without pennies? I'm mostly talking about when you receive change from the cashier... we're going to make everything in $.05 increments?

If your purchase comes out to $1.03, it rounds up to $1.05.

If your purchase comes out to $1.02, it rounds down to $1.00.

which is why they'll ALWAYS PRICE TO END WITH A TREY....

how many times I gotsta tell youse ... they always come in treys ...

(11-13-2025 11:18 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  So... how are we going to buy things with cash without pennies? I'm mostly talking about when you receive change from the cashier... we're going to make everything in $.05 increments?

They just quit making pennies, they aren't getting rid of the ones that already exist. There are enough in circulation that they can kick that can down the road for decades at least.

(11-13-2025 12:23 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 11:18 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  So... how are we going to buy things with cash without pennies? I'm mostly talking about when you receive change from the cashier... we're going to make everything in $.05 increments?

They just quit making pennies, they aren't getting rid of the ones that already exist. There are enough in circulation that they can kick that can down the road for decades at least.

stores will stop accepting .. yeah, I know it's illegal due to being legal tender, but nobody is gonna give a fk...

it's hard enough to time when to bust a hundo if less than a 20 buck purchase ... such is when playing in the field of tangible...

(11-13-2025 08:05 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  I save nickels, dimes, and quarters. Pennies aren't worth the space they take up.

Which is why the US Mint is discontinuing them. It costs over 4 cents to make each penny.

I think the nickel might be next, at some point in the future.

(11-13-2025 12:30 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Which is why the US Mint is discontinuing them. It costs over 4 cents to make each penny.

Yep, every time someone hands you a penny you lost 3 cents.

(11-13-2025 09:47 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  I don't know how you'd work out the logistics of such a thing, but it'd be neat if they came up with some system where we could round up all our transactions to the next nickel and give that money to some charitable entity.

I know PetSmart and Dollar Tree actually do that .

Dollar Tree gives to the Boys & Girls Club and PetSmart to ASPCA.

(11-13-2025 11:43 AM)Unionman76 Wrote:  i now wear nickel loafers

For what it's worth, I thought this was funny. Corny, but funny.

(11-13-2025 01:48 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 09:47 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  I don't know how you'd work out the logistics of such a thing, but it'd be neat if they came up with some system where we could round up all our transactions to the next nickel and give that money to some charitable entity.

I know PetSmart and Dollar Tree actually do that .

Dollar Tree gives to the Boys & Girls Club and PetSmart to ASPCA.

I know some other places do that as well, but I had forgotten about those two. Thanks for reminding me. (And for once, considering that the penny is now dead, I actually agree with something Red Wing Helmet Dude said.)

(11-13-2025 02:58 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 01:48 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 09:47 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  I don't know how you'd work out the logistics of such a thing, but it'd be neat if they came up with some system where we could round up all our transactions to the next nickel and give that money to some charitable entity.

I know PetSmart and Dollar Tree actually do that .

Dollar Tree gives to the Boys & Girls Club and PetSmart to ASPCA.

I know some other places do that as well, but I had forgotten about those two. Thanks for reminding me. (And for once, considering that the penny is now dead, I actually agree with something Red Wing Helmet Dude said.)

he's said that with the subliminal NGO as the beneficiary ... be careful what you ask for...

(11-13-2025 11:36 AM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 11:18 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  So... how are we going to buy things with cash without pennies? I'm mostly talking about when you receive change from the cashier... we're going to make everything in $.05 increments?

If your purchase comes out to $1.03, it rounds up to $1.05.

If your purchase comes out to $1.02, it rounds down to $1.00.

Never rounds down. And the extra few cents adds up to a substantial amount for the state that they would not have gotten otherwise. It’s really simple math.

(11-13-2025 03:01 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 02:58 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 01:48 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 09:47 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  I don't know how you'd work out the logistics of such a thing, but it'd be neat if they came up with some system where we could round up all our transactions to the next nickel and give that money to some charitable entity.

I know PetSmart and Dollar Tree actually do that .

Dollar Tree gives to the Boys & Girls Club and PetSmart to ASPCA.

I know some other places do that as well, but I had forgotten about those two. Thanks for reminding me. (And for once, considering that the penny is now dead, I actually agree with something Red Wing Helmet Dude said.)

he's said that with the subliminal NGO as the beneficiary ... be careful what you ask for...

Good point. Nevermind then. lol

I've got enough pennies saved up in one of those big clear plastic coke bottles to keep the economy running for about a nanosecond. Think I'm going to head over a coin machine and get rid of them soon.

(11-13-2025 03:09 PM)VA49er Wrote:  I've got enough pennies saved up in one of those big clear plastic coke bottles to keep the economy running for about a nanosecond. Think I'm going to head over a coin machine and get rid of them soon.

at 13% less than current mkt value??? ... I'd save 'em in case you encounter a break-in ...

@theCopper/SteelAdirondack

(11-13-2025 03:04 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 03:01 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 02:58 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 01:48 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 09:47 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  I don't know how you'd work out the logistics of such a thing, but it'd be neat if they came up with some system where we could round up all our transactions to the next nickel and give that money to some charitable entity.

I know PetSmart and Dollar Tree actually do that .

Dollar Tree gives to the Boys & Girls Club and PetSmart to ASPCA.

I know some other places do that as well, but I had forgotten about those two. Thanks for reminding me. (And for once, considering that the penny is now dead, I actually agree with something Red Wing Helmet Dude said.)

he's said that with the subliminal NGO as the beneficiary ... be careful what you ask for...

Good point. Nevermind then. lol

I simply understand the mind of a lyin' pos donktard...

(11-13-2025 10:14 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(11-13-2025 08:05 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  I save nickels, dimes, and quarters. Pennies aren't worth the space they take up.

I don't know, if they're pre-1982, they have a lot of copper in them. Clean copper is going for over 3 bucks a pound now.

My younger brother has a 1995 Chevy pickup that he's barely driven in 20 years sitting in his driveway. It still runs. He still cranks it up about once a week, and he'll drive it around the block sometimes. This is a truck that restorers are looking for everywhere, but he won't sell it, and he won't fix it back up even though the body is as straight as the day it rolled off the assembly line.

Instead, he uses it as a receptacle for scrap copper. He works for a cabling company, so he ends up with a lot of scrap Cat5 and Cat6 cabling. That stuff isn't worth nearly as much as cleaned electrical wiring, though. I don't know where he comes up with it, but he probably has about 500 pounds of it sitting in his garage.

So that is the guy that has been taking down the networks! Seriously copper theft is a big issue in telecom, and it is getting worse. We have outages all the time because some dumb*** cuts down a main fiber cable thinking it has copper in it.