See a penny, pick it up. . .

All day long you'll have good luck!

I was driving to work this morning and a man on the radio was talking about this new proposal that has been presented to the government in order to get rid of the penny and the nickel.  Apparently, the government spends way too much making pennies, so they are proposing to eliminate it altogether.  The proposal recommends that the value of the penny be changed to five cents in order to start getting it out of the currency system.  Every penny would be worth five cents!  Same goes for getting rid of the nickel.  Every nickel would be worth ten cents!  Eventually, once they are all turned in, there would be no more pennies or nickels.

Wouldn't that be a great idea?  Hubby and I have always had a big glass water jug that we use to collect our spare change.  He empties out his pockets at the end of the day, and once a week I clean out the bottom of my purse and we plunk it down into the jar.  Once in a while, we'll get it about halfway full and take it down to the grocery store, standing at the coin exchange machine for half an hour pouring all the change down the chute.  We're always amazed at how little change turns into so much paper money!  One time the jar was only a little over half way full and we got over $250 back.  It was thrilling!

Maybe we'll get lucky and our glorious elected officials will help this proposal actually come to fruition.  We'll all be rich!  (or at least a little richer than we were before!)