Saturday, November 21, 2020

Steven Must Have CENT You, PENNY, Into My Life

Don't worry. I'm not going to burst into song. I'm only going to plant a tune in your head. Even Steven has been on the ball this week, sending me where the coins were, to fatten my Future Pennyillionaire Fortune.
 
TUESDAY, November 17, I was greeted by a cigarette butt penny at the Liquor Store! 

Funny how no smoking is allowed inside, yet there's a spent cigarette butt on the carpet. Did somebody bring it in and surreptitiously drop it? Because it's so hard to drop a cigarette butt out on the parking lot? I'm pretty sure if an employee (it's a family-run business) told a person they couldn't smoke in there, that family employee would have NOT allowed the smoker to just drop the cig on the carpet and stub it out! But what do I know? I am neither a smoker nor a liquor store employee.


It was a 2013 penny, face-down. Now in my possession, balanced precariously on the overflowing rim of my 2020 plastic Little Caesar's marinara sauce "goblet."
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THURSDAY, November 19, I was once again in the Liquor Store, seeking a PacMan scratcher that can't be found anywhere else. The Liquor Store was expecting me.
 

That strip of carpet by the counter is like a black hole for coins! They are always in the same place.
 

It was a face-down 2016 dime. I tried to get a closeup, but when I looked later, I had taken a picture of a couple of pebbles on the carpet! So I cropped and enlarged this one from the original. 
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That's 2 COINS this week, for a total of 11 CENTS. Not too shabby. The Liquor Store came through for me!
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2020 RUNNING TOTAL

Penny       # 123.
Dime         # 24.
Nickel       still at 10.
Quarter    still at 1.

2019 TOTALS
Penny     134
Dime        20
Nickel        8
Quarter      5
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9 comments:

  1. It appears you will top the 2019 total from last year.

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    1. That's the goal, but I'm concerned over the lack of quarters this year!

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  2. 11 cents puts you 4 cents ahead for the week :) Keep that up and you can visit the storage yard stores and get your own new penny goblet, and a spare for next year.

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    1. Maybe I should accompany Hick into Goodwill on our next trip to Casino Town. Surely they have a goblet or two in there!

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  3. I'm telling you, check out laundromats. You could get a quarter or two there...if you can bend down and peer under the machines. I find more pennies on casino floors.

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    1. Well, the bending ain't gonna happen! There IS a laundromat next door to Save A Lot. Maybe Hick can find me a mirror on a stick, and a grabber thingy, and I can go in just to look for coins. That wouldn't be at all suspicious...

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  4. My favorite child, Jeff, was always thrifty, looking to see what others just tossed away. He never passed a pay phone with out checking to see if someone had left a coin or two. His other favorite thing from about age 7 to 11 was to lay on the floor of the grocery store and snake his long skinny arm under the soda machines. He always left with a pocket full of change.

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    1. If you'd shopped at the liquor store instead of the grocery store, he could have skipped the contortions for the soda machine, and harvested coins in plain sight!

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