Random Rants LXVI: NO, **YOUR** THREAD TITLES SUCK!!

[Valka D'Ur]

Sell or trade them to someone in the US. Our pennies are close enough to the same size, and we still use them.

Well, that's a practical idea, although I don't know of anyone I could trade with. They're so cheap to buy that it just seems silly to put them on eBay.

Come to think of it, some stores here are still selling them. I have no idea why, when our lowest denomination of coin is the nickel, which is too big for the penny wrappers.

 

[Hygro]

Wait, there's no pennies, just the paper?

 

[JohannaK]

I thought the wrappers were full of pennies!

 

[Syno]

You fill the wrappers with the spare change you have. Then you take them into a bank and either deposit the amounts into your account or get bills/larger change in return.

Mostly useless with the banks that have change-counting machines, but most banks in Canada don't have those yet. They won't take big jars of loose change so you need the wrappers.

 

[Cutlass]

Well, that's a practical idea, although I don't know of anyone I could trade with. They're so cheap to buy that it just seems silly to put them on eBay.

Come to think of it, some stores here are still selling them. I have no idea why, when our lowest denomination of coin is the nickel, which is too big for the penny wrappers.

There's probably a significant amount of people who have a lot of change in jars or cans still. I once had a 5 gallon water jug that I filled with change until I could no longer lift it. More recently I use just a cookie jar. And half full running its contents through the change machine it was near $100.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There's probably a significant amount of people who have a lot of change in jars or cans still. I once had a 5 gallon water jug that I filled with change until I could no longer lift it. More recently I use just a cookie jar. And half full running its contents through the change machine it was near $100.

I suppose so, but after all this time, I shouldn't think that most people would still have that many pennies.

I doubt I have a full roll's worth of nickels or dimes tucked away, although I probably do with quarters. A pay phone costs 50 cents now, and the vending machines cost a loonie, or a loonie plus a quarter. Some gum or candy machines might still be a quarter, although I don't remember seeing too many of them lately.

Cash isn't something I use much anymore - just for places like fast-food restaurants or the lunch kiosk at the library, or bus tickets. The library does have a small room where they sell donated books and I might spend $2-3 there once in a while. So I don't usually have much change to worry about.

It's not like it was 20 years ago, even, when I'd save my change for a year and that would be enough to pay for a science fiction convention - everything from admission, transportation, food, hotel, plus my budget for the art room and dealer's room.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Wait, there's no pennies, just the paper?

I thought the wrappers were full of pennies!

Why would I be ranting if I found a bag full of rolls of pennies? I'd post that in the Raves thread and next time I went to the bank, I'd deposit them.

I'm annoyed because I found a bag of empty, unused penny wrappers, and since Canada no longer uses pennies and I don't have very many pennies (have a few left over from old change and I find one now and then), I have nothing to put in the wrappers.

They're made of good-quality brown paper and are sturdy, so it seems such a shame to just throw them away.

You fill the wrappers with the spare change you have. Then you take them into a bank and either deposit the amounts into your account or get bills/larger change in return.

Mostly useless with the banks that have change-counting machines, but most banks in Canada don't have those yet. They won't take big jars of loose change so you need the wrappers.

Some banks were charging a fee to exchange coins, and I'm not sure about the machines I see in some of the stores.

My bank would usually give me a few wrappers (ie. if I asked for a couple of wrappers for quarters or nickels or loonies) and wouldn't charge for it. Chances were good that I'd bring them back shortly, full of coins to deposit into my account. The only time I wanted to exchange them for bills was when I went to the science fiction conventions (this was before debit cards became so common and the machines became portable).

 

[Hygro]

The world is fast. Can't get hung up on paper. The recycling is a beautiful receptacle.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The world is fast. Can't get hung up on paper. The recycling is a beautiful receptacle.

It helps to have a recycling bin, which this building doesn't.

 

[Snerk]

A week of rain and high temperatures has taken it's toll what little snow there was. Now it's all but melted and what remains is all condensed, wet and icy. Ski season hardy got started and now it's pretty much over. Weather wise this winter really has been abysmal. Much sad.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Yea, global warming is pretty awful

 

[Snerk]

It is but can't even blame it on that alone. Temperatures has on average been like 3-4 degrees higher than normal this winter.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Temperatures has on average been like 3-4 degrees higher than normal this winter.

because of global warming, yo

 

[Snerk]

Yah but global warming doesn't yet account for those kinds of temperature increases. At least not on average. It's more been due to weather than climate. Warm air from the south/west instead of cold air from north/east.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Hey screw you there's so much snow here I can't even

 

[Hygro]

Yah but global warming doesn't yet account for those kinds of temperature increases. At least not on average. It's more been due to weather than climate. Warm air from the south/west instead of cold air from north/east.

But it does account for that "on average" being more common :santa:

 

[Snerk]

Hey screw you there's so much snow here I can't even

Can I have it pls?

But it does account for that "on average" being more common :santa:

Indeed it does, my hygorian friend.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Help yourself.

 

[Cutlass]

Some banks were charging a fee to exchange coins, and I'm not sure about the machines I see in some of the stores.

Most banks here wave the fee if you deposit the coins in your account after putting them in the machine. Then you go around the side of the building and take the money back out with the ATM Still less work than rolling them yourself.

 

[Snerk]

Help yourself.

I might need a delivery though.