FOX affiliate considers saving $816 over 65 years news

[anon68952647]

@PhasmaFelis

I didn’t say it was gonna be you, but I knew.

I appreciate the softball, hate to leave you hanging there. (cross metaphor intentional)

[hhype]

Better than collecting those aluminum can pull tabs. You make $1.81/lb of pennies and, last I checked, $0.85/lb of aluminum cans (or just the tabs). Both are probably worthless activities for almost anything else you could spend your time on, you would have to count on finding rare pennies to make it worth it and there are no “rare” pull tabs, except for that famous upside down printed one. It took the employees hours to count the pennies, “All the time, our customers ask us, “How do you make money doing this?” The answer is simple: Volume. That’s what we do.”

[popobawa4u]

@DevinC

io9 had a post about someone who replaced every use of the word ‘love’ in Corinthians with ‘Tim’. I think today’s just a slow news day.

I just tried this by reading this thread for a minute and seeing “penises” where people had written “pennies”. I am still drinking my coffee and not quite awake yet. It did make this more newsworthy!

Some people actually do this - buy as many penises as they can from the bank, separate the old ones, and send the new ones back to the bank - waiting for the (hopefully soon) day penises are no longer currency and can be melted down.

At current prices, you’d make about 50 cents a pound profit, which means sorting through between 150 and 190 penises per pound. Sounds like an incredible waste of time if done by hand.

[Spokanarama]

Our local paper ran a long story about a woman who is going to move 75 miles from Sandpoint to Spokane! http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/dec/29/charting-the-future/

[GilbertWham]

I put it to you, that one cannot ‘crown’ someone with a pendant.

[ChuckV]

Perhaps he means “crown” as in strike about the head.

[GilbertWham]

(ssssh, you’re queering my game…)

[popobawa4u]

@GilbertWham

I put it to you, that one cannot ‘crown’ someone with a pendant.

But one can crown someone a pedant.

@jlw

Pedant.

@ChuckV

Perhaps he means “crown” as in strike about the head.

One cannot be much of a pedant if one’s head is on strike.

[peemlives]

The story illustrates that coin hoarding (as opposed to collecting) is borrowing against inflation. I could not be paid $816 for moving pennies into containers for 65 years, I would want considerably more for that task.

[anon15383236]

@popobawa4u

At current prices, you’d make about 50 cents a pound profit, which means sorting through between 150 and 190 penises per pound. Sounds like an incredible waste of time if done by hand.

Penises are always an incredible waste of time if done by –

Nvrmnd, not going there, nope nope.

[MarkDow]

…woman who is going to move 75 miles

Superficially this seems extraordinary and newsworthy. But, the report notes that:

Wright said her friends are supportive, adding that the move isn’t a wild hair but a realistic and well-planned decision.

[daneel]

I think someone moving to Spokane probably is newsworthy.

[PrestonSturges]

@TrollsOpinion

Even with the price of copper being beat up in recent weeks, the metal content of a penny is around $0.017

Mostly zinc, isn’t it?

[shaddack]

The link provided has the bare-metal price of both the full-copper and zinc-stuffed ones.

The zinc-stuffed can be used to make hollow pennies. Leave them in hydrochloric acid; the zinc core will be etched out, the copper foil shell (with negligible mechanical integrity but may be useful for e.g. art) will remain.

[nytespryte]

I collect pull tabs, but I use them to make scale maille stuff.

[pixleshifter]

That is a really interesting point.

[pixleshifter]

I’d disagree and say that you can in fact save a lot of time by hand.
EDIT:
I suppose it depends on which end you’re on though.

[miasm]

@Mister44

I practice quantum financing. I have no idea how much money is in my account most of the time. So I usually feel I am both broke, and doing really well at the same time. It’s not until I check my account to measure the actual amount that I discover I am either one way or the other.

Which has the obscene effect of completely randomising your prospective investment portfolio.

[PrestonSturges]

@Jim_Kirk

My bank requires them counted in rolls, with account number written on them for precise counting later.

My bank accepts them buy the bucket, puts them in a bag and ships them out for counting.

CoinStar machines in the market take a hefty surcharge and it says on the machine that if you accidentally feed it a silver quarter worth $5 it credits you $0.00 and it keeps the silver.

[popobawa4u]

@pixleshifter

I suppose it depends on which end you’re on though.

My curve is at the bell-end of the graph