Whenever Art goes for his walks/jogs he tends to watch the ground for change that people have dropped. It's usually a penny. After about five years he managed to fill his jar.
Granted, he did find $7 once flying across a parking lot, so you knew the jar contained more than that. Yes, there had been the occasional quarter. Whatever the case, my guess was $10.13. Sigh...
What would you have guessed?
Art told everybody there would be a contest to see who could come closest to the total amount.
We got paper rolls at the bank to count the money. KC and JD helped to count it.
Would you believe the total was $21.05? My son-in-law was just $.42 off!!! Needless to say his daughter who loves cookies was thrilled because this was the prize! Who had the worst guess? Yup. Me.
The money will be donated to the Hawaii Foodbank.
And now Art is once more on the look out for change left on the ground.
This is what he's found so far in the last month. I wonder when we'll have the next money counting guessing contest.
Granted, he did find $7 once flying across a parking lot, so you knew the jar contained more than that. Yes, there had been the occasional quarter. Whatever the case, my guess was $10.13. Sigh...
What would you have guessed?
Art told everybody there would be a contest to see who could come closest to the total amount.
We got paper rolls at the bank to count the money. KC and JD helped to count it.
Would you believe the total was $21.05? My son-in-law was just $.42 off!!! Needless to say his daughter who loves cookies was thrilled because this was the prize! Who had the worst guess? Yup. Me.
The money will be donated to the Hawaii Foodbank.
And now Art is once more on the look out for change left on the ground.
This is what he's found so far in the last month. I wonder when we'll have the next money counting guessing contest.
That's so much fun!
ReplyDeleteGood for Art for stopping and picking up the coins. When my kids were little, they always asked why I bent over to rescue a little agora coin from the ground. (Today 10 agorot is the smallest coin in Israel.) I told them it was a matter of respect for the symbols of the country that are on the money and people should not be trampling on the menorah, for instance.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on your next 5 year collection, Art!
Congrats to the winner, love this story, amazing what you can find over time. I did find a quarter in a parking lot recently.
ReplyDeleteBlessings.....
ReplyDeleteRiches are everywhere sometimes it comes in a penny, quarter, dollar at a time.
how you are well.
have a blessed day.
It's amazing how those pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters add up!
ReplyDeleteHubby keeps a mug on his dresser to deposit the change from his pocket at the end of the day. When it gets filled up, he cashes it in at the bank. We used to have to roll all the coins, but not we just take it to a branch of our bank that has a coin counter and it gets done automatically.
I love how you involved the grandkids and made it a contest.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good thing to do, picking up the money from the ground. And what an inspired idea to have that contest! My grandfather used to pick up "found money" which he called "lucky money". I think my brother has it now. It is mostly from pre WWI so coins that have not been in circulation for a long time.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good thing to do.
ReplyDeleteThe janitors at our school used to do this, and they'd have quite a sum by year's end.
ReplyDeleteYes there are treasures everywhere if we just look, Kay!
ReplyDeleteLovely post.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the grand-kids really enjoyed this …
A good place to donate to as well …
All the best Jan
funny if i see a penny, i rarely pick it up but a nickel, dime or quarter I'll get it!
ReplyDeleteThat was quite a haul and it had to be fun guessing. Does he ever look to see if they are rare coins?
ReplyDeleteGood eye Art. My wife finds stuff as she's watching where she walks.
ReplyDeleteI usually ignore those pennies I see on the ground. Maybe I should start a jar.
ReplyDeleteLook at the tire marks. I have a penny that's way out of shape from being run over.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should start picking up all those pennies I see every day. Congrats to the big winner and a pat on the top of the head for the others. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was a fun idea to have the contest while the kids were all there.
ReplyDeleteI don't see dropped change as much as I did during the 90's. My generation kind of killed that with our plastic swiping
ReplyDeleteGreat fun for the kids and all.
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