Posted
on August 2, 2014
There
are so many little ways that people help other people out, or make
their lives a little easier...
Someone
was smart when they came up with those little Take a Penny, Leave a
Penny trays that you see next to cash registers in grocery stores and
elsewhere.
Without those trays, all of us would be doing what so many
people used to do, dump pennies into their pockets and purses and
later, trying to lighten the load in pockets and purses, dumping the
pennies into jars at home. Since pennies are almost useless in most
transactions (for example, no coin-op machine seems to take them,
anymore), pennies used to build up and build up in our homes.
Finally, in desperation, many of us would take our jars of pennies to
one of those big machines that sorts and counts change and pays us in
more sensible forms of cash. Or we would buy penny wraps and count
the coins ourselves, and take them to the bank to cash them in.
But
with the Take a Penny, Leave a Penny trays, whenever you get from one
to four pennies, you can just dump them into the tray. And whenever
you need a penny or two so you don't have to break a twenty, you can
take what you need. No more pennies in a jar, right?
So
brilliant!
I
bet whoever thought of creating those trays made a handy bit of
dough. Sure, some people just take any old bowl and make a hand-made
sign, but plenty of folks bought specially inscribed plastic trays
for the purpose. And then of course there were all those
manufacturers who bought trays and slapped ads on them and passed
them out to the stores they deal with...
To
celebrate today...
- Scrounge around for pennies at your house and fill all the Take/Leave Penny trays you can.
- Or try to come up with a another cool idea to save everybody time and money and aggravation.
- Or use Google to find out why some people want to eliminate the penny. Are there any good arguments against getting rid of the penny?
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