To pick change up from the floor?

[StepCatsmother]

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...)

My dad was a university lecturer. He reckoned he averaged a couple of quid a month from the campus bus stop, where students dropped the coins they considered too low-value to carry around, including frequent 10p pieces, and occasionally higher.

I often pick up coins... Certainly 5p upwards, but coppers too, depending on my mood (how lazy I'm feeling). Amazes me how many are left lying around. And floor-dirt probably isn't that much worse than other people's hand-dirt.

mazed She didn't think she was in the wrong at all. The poor man was lying on the ground and all she could say was: 'You could have hurt me.'

DH thinks dropped change is disease-ridden. It's strange because he's not particularly worried about germs in any other way.

limited - he must have been walking right up her arse then if he fell over her! Don't blame her for her comment - people walking too close when they don't need to infuriate me.

Walk past me by all means but don't try and make me speed up by walking too close!

I may stop suddenly if I think someone is doing that

I also pick up coins in the street. Always have done. I keep a coin jar and change that up for my chocolate habit once a month. :)

I was chatting to one of the cleaners at an old school I worked at.

He would pick up every single penny left by pupils who felt it was beneath their dignity to pick up small coins.

He told me it would buy him a couple of pints every week.

quids in!

tapdancingmollusc Very true. He'll pay more attention in future. I kept out of it. She was more than capable of dealing with it herself.

If it takes you more than five and a half seconds to pick up a penny then you're working at less than the minimum wage in picking it up... but I always have done. It has contributed a fair bit to my daughter's savings in the past, although now that supermarkets have automatic checkouts I tend to use my small change there.

I pick up all coins I see. I buy stamps with them. All my post (including parcels) have been free for as long as I've done this. In 2007 after maternity leave (more walking more coins found) DD & I had lunch out and a new item of clothing each from my found money collection.

My best finds were a £20 note outside a very posh butchers and a dark brown mink collar in the gutter outside Harrods that I gave to my mum and she wore proudly - what was the story there?

You often do find notes in gutters dropped by drunken people getting out of taxis.

The greatest one was a soaked £5 note lingering on a drain in a downpour. It was just about to go down when I grabbed it. That would have been about £20 maybe £25 today.

I only saw it because I didn't have an umbrella and it was raining so hard that my head was down.

Can you imagine how happy that made 11-year-old me?

i always pick them up and say 'thankyou' to the universe, they go in my penny jar and come in handy when i'm skint and need to buy some cheap noodles etc. also, i'm able to put a few pennies into the hands of the homeless without feeling any 'i can't afford this' or 'i shouldn't be doing this' thinking attached to it.

I always pick it up, no matter how small.

All my friends and family know I do it - so no one is shocked. I am generally the only one who finds money of the paper variety too. I don't look for it, I just find it.

I used to work in a very busy pub back in the day when smoking was still allowed, the ashtrays were always full of coppers, as was the floor as people just couldn't be bothered with it. All of that went into the collection tins.

If worried re dirt on coins drop in vinegar...done that a few times. No difference from the coins in your pocket...

I'd happily bend over for 50p and up.

YANBU AT ALL!! My Dad is a school caretaker and he picks up all the loose change left round the school and the grounds every day and puts it in to a money box in his office for my DS. (He hands in notes to the office and lets them know about £1 & £2 coins in case a child reports missing money.) He takes the money in to the bank when the box gets full and gets it changed in to notes. He typically has around £20-40 a term for DS!!