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To pick change up from the floor?

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StepCatsmother · 22/05/2015 09:44

I hadn't thought there was anything odd/wrong/scabby about this until DP laughed at me for picking 5p up in the supermarket car park.

I always pick up coins if I see them. I have a change jar and they go in there. (Don't get me wrong, only when they're where I'm walking, I don't go out of my way or run to grab them!)

He thinks it's odd and a little bit 'scabby' to use his word.

Do you pick up change? What's the smallest denomination of coin you'd pick up? (I'll pick up anything, probably to do with the rhyme 'Find a penny, pick it up...)

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PacificDogwood · 22/05/2015 09:45

Of course YANBU - your DP is

I love finding a 'lucky penny'!

D0oinMeCleanin · 22/05/2015 09:47

I'll only pick up a £1 or more, but this is because I am too lazy to bend down, not because there is anything scabby about it.

If the children are with me I let them pick it up and they get half for doing so

SnowyPiglet · 22/05/2015 09:50

Of course it's fine, what wrong with it? What are you supposed to do, leave it there? I would laugh at him and say he's lazy - may come in useful if you need small change for the car park.

ApprenticeViper · 22/05/2015 09:51

YADNBU - I always pick up a penny when I see one, like the OP, it's been conditioned into me from "see a penny, pick it up..." when I was a child.

I figure that if I can be arsed to bend down for a penny, I can certainly be arsed to bend down for anything more than that. S'free money innit?

addictedtosugar · 22/05/2015 09:51

The kids LOVE finding a lucky penny on the floor, and I have to remember whogot the last one if I spy one, or all hell breaks llose.

And yes, I will pick up anything on the floor, unless its in a pile of muck.

It was very amusing as students to watch the 50p piece someone had superglued to the paving slabs outside the house.....

MrsNextDoor · 22/05/2015 09:52

No...but not because it's "scabby" but because I always think coins are dirty enough without picking them off the floor.

LadyNym · 22/05/2015 09:54

YANBU.

I have copper change jars so if I picked up 1p/2p it would go in there (though, they're packed away at the moment since we're staying with my parents).

I wouldn't always bother picking up anything under 50p, though. If it was wet/muddy or I was in a rush or just couldn't be arsed, I wouldn't. I think 50p or a £1 I'd always pick up, though.

limitedperiodonly · 22/05/2015 09:54

I pick up any coins.

My mum used to keep her beady eyes on the ground to look for loose change or dog shit. She'd swoop on the coins like lightning before anyone else could do it.

One time she went down so quickly the man following had to leap frog her and went sprawling.

TheFlis12345 · 22/05/2015 09:55

I rarely do as I figure that someone who needs it more than me may find it and appreciate it more.

FishCanFly · 22/05/2015 09:57

Your dp is a twat. Money is money, no matter how small.

SumThucker · 22/05/2015 09:58

50p would be my minimum, and if there was someone watching, I wouldn't.

fattymcfatfat · 22/05/2015 10:03

I always pick up free money. once found a 20 pound note. but yep I pick up pennies and they go in the change jar, which is then split evenly between the DCs to buy them a treat.

londonrach · 22/05/2015 10:06

Yanbu. Believe me every penny counts. Dh used to laugh at me but couldnt him yesterday picking up 20p. Did find £20 once, (flittered to me in the wind) asked everyone near by then placed in collection box in the good old days of collection boxes. Did a quick survey when back at work. Seems myself and one other were the only ones who give it to charity if over £10. Hoped the person who lost would be happier it had gone to charity.

meglet · 22/05/2015 10:06

yanbu.

see a penny, pick it up........

londonrach · 22/05/2015 10:08

...all day long you have good luck.

MaidOfStars · 22/05/2015 10:11

I pick up change, but maybe not coppers. There's always a charity box nearby to stick it in.

OnIlkleyMoorBahTwat · 22/05/2015 10:13

YANBU

What is shocking is the numbers of people that simply drop small change on the ground because they don't think it is worth hanging onto.

Koalafications · 22/05/2015 10:17

OnIlkley I'm one of those people, I used to throw coppers into the bin. I don't anymore, though!

MissDuke · 22/05/2015 10:19

^as above, it amazes me that people drop small change like it isn't important - we see 1p and 5p coins almost daily, but rarely pound coins so I don't believe it is accidental. We always pick them up and put them in our change jar.

wowfudge · 22/05/2015 10:21

I have friends who have a jar for found money and had over £150 by the end of the year last year! They don't go around heads down scanning the floor either.

OnlyLovers · 22/05/2015 10:23

Only if there's no one around, because I'm British like that.

mazed · 22/05/2015 10:24

Limited- I did a proper laugh out loud then!

PacificDogwood · 22/05/2015 10:27

People drop small changed deliberately? Really?

I thought DH was being weird for not considering change 'real money' - he always leaves small piles of change all over the house. Which I collect and use for lunch money or put in my wallet

senua · 22/05/2015 10:33

People drop small changed deliberately? Really?

You would be amazed how weird some people are. I have also heard the theory of being too 'proud' to pick up money off the floor (their own or other people's) because they think it makes them look cheap/poor/scabby.

There used to be a plentiful of supply of dropped change until the recession hit and people got over themselves. I knew the recession was ending when loose change started appearing on the pavement again!

Littlefluffyclouds81 · 22/05/2015 10:45

Me and a friend spent pretty much a whole weekend at a festival a few years back sitting on the grass with a £2 coin with a hole drilled through it, tied to a long clear fishing line. We'd wait until somebody excitedly bent down to pick it up and then reel it back in, laughing. It didn't get boring all weekend we were quite wasted.

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