Pick It Up Or Leave It?

I almost always pick up change from the ground. I will pick up a single penny if I see one. Hey, money is money! And like you said, it all adds up. I have a bank and once in awhile I will count the money inside. I usually have about 10-20 dollars in there at any given time, which isn't too bad!

i always pick up coins. even if they are only pennies. pennies tossed into a jar eventually turn into dollars. money is money and it is scarce around here these days so i will take any and all money i can find.

I would surely pick it up... In fact it gives me great pleasure to pick up money, no matter the amount...

Actually I don't want to have coins as they will make my wallet so full:) Usually I try to spend the coins rather than keeping them. So I won't pick up the coins on the ground. Coins don't mean much for me. I love China

Anytime that I see a coin laying along the street I do not care if it is a penny, I always pick it up. A penny is a penny. I too have had to raid my change jar from time to time. The way the economy is right now, we must save every coin we can get our hands on.

Well I must admit it that I would not have any hesitation on picking up a dollar coin if I happened to find one on the street. I just think on the idea that what your son was doing was definitely great because a million will not be constituted as a million without a one dollar coin I guess. I am just happy right now because I am near my very first payout here but I think these will be my last post here for today because I still have to get some rest because I will be waking up early tomorrow and have my hospital duty. Have a great time always my dear friend and enjoy your stay here as well always. ^_^ Goodnight and sweet dreams by the way.

I pick them up and save them. As you've said, those small amounts of change eventually begin to add up. I don't care what they look like, I still pick them up. When I was moving out of my apartment on Friday, someone threw away a nickel. The bag broke and it fell out so as soon as I was able to pick it up I did. Not use in throwing money away!

Of course you pick it up, it's money. I know some people who use metal detectors just for that purpose. I can't imagine that's very profitable but I'm sure they like getting money just for walking around. Never know what you might find.

I certainly do - I haven't been saving it in my "tin" lately, though, I just put the coins straight in my coin purse. Growing up, my dad kept a huge can full of coins, and once a year, when my brother would visit, he, my sister and I would empty out all the money and count it - there was usually well over $1000! That taught me that small change is worth keeping =) Congratulations on teaching your children good saving habits!=D

I do usually. I've saved up to about $200 and something once. but that was when I was working in a bar and all our drinks ended with 50 cents. so there was always a lots of quarters on the ground after work.

I definitely pick it up unless there's a valid reason not too, like I'd be trampled or something. I've a very frugal person and would never pass up a chance for a few free pennies. They do add up! I've got a very large jug here (actually, one of this big water cooler containers) and I toss my extra change in that. I was doing pretty good with letting it accumulate, but I had to visit the laundromat a few times last year so that put a dent in it.

You know, I am actually pretty stunned here...that's alot of money! My grandpa has a habit of taking up cents here and there and sometimes my grandmother does it. I don't do it though but if I see dollars bills I would pick it up. The most I ever found was $2.00 Very insignificant compared to how much I've seen people said they found! I'm actually sitting here and pondering the thought of getting a jar to save "picked up change" in now. By the end of the year I might have something extra for Christmas present. I usually save up the change I get when I go shopping and when I used to go to school I used to put my money (whatever I had in my pocket) in a box every evening and within a month I had a little over $40.00 in dollar bills and lots of coins!

Yes, I pick up loose change or any money I see lying on the ground. I remember when I was a freshman in high school that I picked up money one day and discovered that it was a 20 folded inside a 10... so it was thirty bucks! Other students were rushing thru the hallway just stepping on it and not paying attention. I have picked up money various other times since then, a few dollar bills that I spied underneath my car in a parking lot, a few bills stuck in a plant in a parking lot, on the floor in a Walmart, you just never know what you'll see when looking down. These days I usually pick up the change and put it in my wallet and then when my change purse area gets too full, I dump it into my daughter's piggy bank. I also use the change I get from recycling to put in her piggy bank.

I never had any luck spotting a change in street and pick it up . maybe other person had already beat me to it. Wow, your kid got 70 buck just picking up coins? Thats just double what i earn online so far Maybe i should just change my extra money job.

I usually pick it up. If its on heads. I guess i'm superstitous (sp) if its on tails it means bad luck and I won't pick it up. saving change can come in handy. My son saved and when he cashed it in at one of those change machines he had over a $150. my daughter did the same thing and she had over $170.