Business & Finance Would you bother picking up a 5 cent coin?

[perthblue]

Comraidz,

We've all experienced the shame of having to pick up a coin in public like an Estonian street urchin. But how much money needs to be on the ground before you commit yourself to this shameful act?

Let's say you're walking along in a shopping centre or a public street, reach into your pocket to grab your phone, and as you're pulling it out you feel and then hear a coin dropping to the ground behind you. You turn around: what is the minimum value the coin needs to be before you'd bother stopping to pick it up?

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For interests sake, is it about the coin, or the coin value? For instance, if you say "i'd stop to pick up 50cents" is that exclusive to a 50c piece OR would you pick up 5 10's, or 2 20's and 1 10?

Discourse.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Don't litter

 

[Plugger35]

Any coin 20c or higher I'd definitely pick up, 10c coins a maybe if I'm desperate and 5c coins I usually wouldn't bother as they're next to worthless.

 

[Marklar_33]

Coin?

 

[exe ex machina]

I made $23,456.65 last year picking up coins....5c all the way to $2

 

[Richard Cranium]

Bruh bruh anything smaller than a $10 note ain't worth the effort.

 

[Billy ray]

Cash?

 

[Andre]

Gold coins always. Pick up any of my own dropped of any denomination. Below a $1 it’d depend if I’m in a rush and if anyone around. Picking up less than $1 looks cheap, unless you’re with your kids and can hand it straight to them. You get the appreciation of kid, plus some ‘ooohh, isn’t he nice’ from surrounding females of parenting age

 

[rank and file]

Yes for me,I'd give it to the kid who just got knocked out playing money-hole.

 

[Struggle]

If it's mine 10c, if it's on the ground already, 50c minimum.
The best is when there's a superglued $2 coin on the ground in a high traffic area

 

[PoppedCorn]

"Ah ten k me bollocks....I lose that running for the bus"

 

[Shell]

50c minimum

 

[Plugger35]

50c minimum

 

[Gigantic]

$1 would be the minimum.

If it's mine, then I'd pick up anything.

 

[Hawk Dork]

1930s Penny or GTFO

 

[Catfish Alley]

$1 would be the minimum.

If it's mine, then I'd pick up anything.

Same. If it came out of my pocket I'll pick it up. If it's a random coin on the street $1 minimum.

 

[HairyO]

You cant be picky when youre thrice times divorced and live in a van down by the river.

For me I care if its gold. But I dress like an 1850s prospector so Ive got a theme to live up to.

 

[Shell]

Hold onto your hat Plug, but I threw out money in the States. ****ing pennies, dimes and nickles (the last two on occasion)- in the bin. ****ing nnoying af.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Why would you throw them in a bin? Just leave them on a table or something.

 

[Shell]

Why would you throw them in a bin? Just leave them on a table or something.

What the table in my room?

 

[Catfish Alley]

What the table in my room?

Ah, thought you thew them in a bin the States.

 

[Shell]

Ah, thought you thew them in a bin the States.

I did.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Oh ok. Yeah. Should have just left them on a table at a restaurant or airport or something.

 

[Shell]

Ok. I will do that next time.

 

[GreyCrow]

Oh ok. Yeah. Should have just left them on a table at a restaurant or airport or something.

I did that with the ''bowling tokens'' I got as part of a bowls package. Left them on the table as we left