Got some Tuesday at the parking garage in Uptown Charlotte.

Clerks can get over it - they're legal tender, I don't care if they have to put them in with the 20s, 10s, quarters, dimes, or up their nose.
Ain't my concern where they put the money after I pay for their goods and/or services.

 

When I get them I save them to use for tips.

m49

 

I hope they catch on and we can get rid of the dollar bill. Also I would be ok with the penny going away too!

 

They could go to a five and ten dollar coin too. Would save money in the long run. Last way longer than paper money. It cost more to make pennies than they are worth. Problem with more change is young people can't count out the change for a sale.

 

Too true on all fronts 'chunker.....too true

 

Collect them up and take them to the strip club, I can't help but think something good will come of it.

 

Collect them up and take them to the strip club, I can't help but think something good will come of it.

Good idea they will fit right in the slot.

 

They could go to a five and ten dollar coin too. Would save money in the long run. Last way longer than paper money. It cost more to make pennies than they are worth. Problem with more change is young people can't count out the change for a sale.

The problem with making so many coins is people carrying it. I was recently in Europe and using a 10 and getting back a ton of coins sucks. It makes your pockets bulge an has the chance of falling out when you sit down. I hate coins.

 

What he said... I hate getting all those toonies and loonies whenever I visit Canada. Paper money for me, thanks!

The problem with making so many coins is people carrying it. I was recently in Europe and using a 10 and getting back a ton of coins sucks. It makes your pockets bulge an has the chance of falling out when you sit down. I hate coins.

 

Off topic, but is Vito's in Wrightsville beach still there? From '90-'94 we used to get stromboli there and it was great.

 

Off topic, but is Vito's in Wrightsville beach still there? From '90-'94 we used to get stromboli there and it was great.

its still there -changed ownership since then haven't been there in awhile. I know they stay open late to catch the reddogs bar crowd wanting to get something in their stomach to soak up the beer before bed.

 

The change machines at work give em out and all the vending machines accept them so I use them all the time.

 

The tooth fairy deals in $1 coins at my place. Four kids, two loosing teeth now. The tooth fairy is kept busy.

 

Slice of Life? Why didn't you just find a meter? I wouldn't pay that much to park in the deck.

Anyways, I get tipped these dollar coins and they don't bother me. I'll spend them just like any other money I get. I wouldn't like going to all coins instead of paper money though. It'd weigh too much and I'd lose them too easily.

 

Slice of Life it was. There was NO street parking on Friday night, I circled a couple times, some kinda shindig going on. I parked in the open lot behind the place. Frankly, it's seldom that I get to sit and murder a few pints of Harps while somebody else does the cooking, so the $7 clip job was worth it. I go there every time I'm in Wilmington and thats the first time I could't find a spot on the street.

I never carry change with me, it all goes in the can when I get home, or in the console of the car until then. I have 14 one dollar bills in my pocket at the moment, I would't want 14 coins.

 

I was in stationed in Germany in the late '70s/early '80s when the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins came out. I guess the .gov looked on us as people on whom they could experiment, so they discontinued the use of dollar bills on military posts and all of the facilities gave out dollar coins in change. Someone nicknamed them bitch bucks and the name seemed to stick.

I remember having a pocket full when I came back to CONUS. I went to pay for some items in one of the shops at Logan Airport, and the guy just looked at them and said, "What the hell are these?" It took some convincing on my part with support from some other customers before he would take them.

 

I still have the first one I got, I dont know why but I have carried it everyday with my other change and keys.

 

I can't say I like them, but I think paper $1s should be discontinued and pennys done away with (everything rounded to nearest $.05 instead of $.01. Would save us (our govt) a fortune. I get them at the post office. I had 1000 of the 1979 $1 coins and people had it when I spend them. I remember when on of the members here came to my house to pick up something without exact $ and I had to offer them a $25 roll of coins and they asked for something else instead (I think a couple boxes of ammo completed the deal).

 

Are you a progressive? The reason I'm asking is that you seem confused.

The government exists for the benefit of the people, the people don't exist for the benefit of the government. It just seems that way, lately.

I can't say I like them, but I think paper $1s should be discontinued and pennys done away with (everything rounded to nearest $.05 instead of $.01. Would save us (our govt) a fortune.

 

The whole reason paper currency was invented was to make carrying money easier. Carrying a pocket full of coins is a pain especially with all the other junk most of us carry around. I don't think these things will ever catch on no matter how much the .gov tries to sell them.

 

Are you a progressive? The reason I'm asking is that you seem confused.

The government exists for the benefit of the people, the people don't exist for the benefit of the government. It just seems that way, lately.

Once again, it's you that's confused.

The government is not some "them" out there somewhere as "Conservatives" would have you believe. The "conservatives" by nature need something to fear and to use as a boogeyman to run their platform of fear. The conservative leadership want you to believe you are a slave to your government.

We, all of us, are the government, don't let the fearmongers who took away conservatism and replaced it with a philosophy of fear tell you different.

It's our government - not to be feared, because "we the people" are the government.

Don't be afraid all the time - it's no fun, it's not American.

Take some of your dollar coins and treat yourself to some ice cream or something.

m49

 

No, Model49, I'm not confused.

It's not me you're arguing against, it's the founding fathers of this ONCE GREAT nation, that long ago WAS "of the people, by the people and for the people." It has not been that for quite a while, and it wasn't just your progressive liberal Democrat thugs that bear all the blame, the so-called conservative Republicans have in recent years been nearly as selfish, greedy and traitorous as those on your side of the aisle.

If you really, honestly believe that the current federal government of the United States is still "of the people, by the people and for the people", then you are obviously either delusional or in denial. Either way, I leave it for others to judge which of our positions is false and which is true.

"Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." -- Thomas Jefferson

""God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson

Once again, it's you that's confused.

The government is not some "them" out there somewhere as "Conservatives" would have you believe. The "conservatives" by nature need something to fear and to use as a boogeyman to run their platform of fear. The conservative leadership want you to believe you are a slave to your government.