Comments on: 10 Places To Look When Scrounging For Change

By: uchatome

uchatome — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:46:28 +0000

On my daily bicycling routes I often find lots of change just laying on the side of the road. Where there is one coin usually many are near it.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:43:52 +0000

Look under the drive thru window at any fast food restaurant … just dodge the oncoming cars. There is always a ton of coinage there.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:24:39 +0000

Long story but right on point.

Many decades ago during my misspent youth, a couple of friends and I celebrated our college graduation by driving to the western U.S. We were bound and determined to keep driving and camping until we either ran out of money or lost patience with each other.

One day in New Mexico my friend Barry was driving and without checking with me stopped to pick up a hitchhiker. After a few hours we told him we were going to stop for lunch. We stopped in a small town and he then said he had no money for lunch but if we waited a couple of minutes he could probably get some and join us. Instead of heading towards a bank he started walking towards the town laundromat. Stunned, I whispered to my friend “Holy crap. I think he’s going to rob the laundromat.”

We watched him as he walked into the laundromat and then up and down the rows of washing machines. Opening the lid of each empty machine he unscrewed the top of the agitator, lifted it up a little, reached down and came up with a handful of coins that had fallen out of people’s clothing over the years. He then screwed the agitators back in. The whole time the laundromat attendant basically ignored him.

He walked up to my friends and I with about $7 in loose change. All he said was “alright lets eat”

Turns out that he had been living on the road for a couple of years. When he needed real money he would pick fruit but if he just needed a couple of bucks he headed to the local laundromat. If the machines were the right type and the manager didn’t throw him out as a nuisance he said he could usually pocket from 2 to 12 dollars each time.

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By: Ishtar

Ishtar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:37:49 +0000

I sometimes find coins on my desk at work. And in my laptop bag — not that I know how the coins get in there.

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By: Jesse Bouche

Jesse Bouche — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:09:06 +0000

On a recent visit to my parent’s, I cleaned my father’s car for him. He said I could “keep the change.” I cleared just under $100 in loose car change (this is in Canada where there are $1 and $2 coins).

By: aj

aj — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:54:38 +0000

When I was in college my friend and i always checked the couch and chair cushions in the student union…there was a commuters lounge downstairs that was pretty empty at night so we would check it out when noone else was around. And you could always find coins all over the place on the ground! We would start from our house 2 blocks away (near sorority and frat houses) and scan for $ all the way to the cafeteria. Usually you could find enough to eat on from just one trip! Also like mentioned before, around DT lanes at fast food restaurants…actually there is money almost anywhere if we just open our eyes!
When I was young there was an elderly gentleman who walked around town picking up pennies…I used to throw mine down for him to find. He is long gone now — maybe I should pick up where he left off! I am going to see exactly how much I can find by actively looking over the next month!

By: old car buff

old car buff — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:55:05 +0000

At our house, I used to find at least a couple of dollar a week in my husband and son’s pants pockets. If it makes it into the laundry, it is MINE.

I’ve also found quite a bit of change in the break room at work. People are always leaving their change in the pop/snack machines. I roll it and put it into the annual fund for our Christmas family donation. Last year, that change bought almost a quarter of the grocery card donation (about $25 out of $100).

By: mel

mel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:53:26 +0000

in the church plate, if you sit in back row its usually full lol

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:11:56 +0000

My daughter is one of the best ever at spotting coins. She does very well in the grocery store at the checkout aisles – people drop change as they get out their wallets. She also goes to a local toy store and invariably finds change on the ground by the register – it helps that this is a toy store that’s near a college campus and is open at night, so often is patronized by tipsy students.

And speaking of benefiting from the carelessness of the tipsy, when my brother and I traveled in Ireland about 20 years ago, we found TONS of money around the bars. They have these really heavy coins called “punts” worth over $1 that apparently jump out of people’s pockets. There were times I paid for my entire night’s entertainment from scrounging on the floor.

Of course, recently I have felt somewhat guilty about picking up all the coins I find (my daughter inherited her ability from me, I think). I thought about the biblical admonition to leave some of the harvest in the field to feed the poor. But I have decided instead that I have been given this gift to find money on the ground because the Lord considers me a wise steward – and I try to live up to that by giving away more than I find by many many factors.