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Contemplating the Mysteries of the World - Part 4: The Penny

Blog by HeyItsRose18
First published: Sunday October 10th, 2021
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One Cent Coins are just a Waste of Space

If I looked in my purse right now, I would probably find about 50 pennies that I am never going to use for anything. They just sit in there and way down my bag. These pieces of metal accumulate in a pocket and will stay there until I dump them into a change jar. Sure, that change adds up, but it weighs way too much and it takes way to many of them to get anywhere financially. Also, if you did try to pay with a bunch of pennies, people get annoyed due to the sheer amount of them. Who is going to pay 200 pennies for something when they are not pulling a prank for the internet. These pieces of metal are so useless, why do we even have them?

Now can we talk about how annoying it is that everything costs anything but an easy value? You see everything sold for $15.99 or $5.97 or $27.54. Why can't we just use whole numbers for pricing, they are gonna be weird after taxes anyways so why does everyone make it do difficult. Uneven pricing is just an annoying nuisance, but then again, I complain about so much stuff that many people probably call me an annoying nuisance. So I may just be thinking too much into this. Okay, I think I am done ranting about currency.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Rosie.

HeyItsRose18
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Level 48
Oct 10, 2021
If you have any suggestions of topics that you want me to rant and complain about, let me know!
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Oct 10, 2021
DESTROY ALL USELESS COINS!!!!

I agree with everything lol

MG17
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Level 43
Oct 10, 2021
There are also 1 cent coins and 1 real bill. In the North of Brazil, they are now useless, and work as toys and for educative works of school.

Now we have 200 reais bills, and my parents doesn’t have a single one ;-;

qwrty
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Level 39
Oct 10, 2021
I knew it! :)
qwrty
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Level 39
Oct 10, 2021
It akes more money to make them than they cost
BigGeographyGuy
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Level 63
Oct 10, 2021
It looks like I'm not the only one who thinks that pennies/cents are a waste lol. I find it really annoying when something costs 99p since it could just be £1/$1 lol. Nice blog :)
TheNatureThread
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Level 65
Oct 10, 2021
Contemplating Ranting about the mysteries stupidities of the world
cuotak
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Level 67
Oct 10, 2021
In China, even beggars went cashless few years ago, while in the west you guys are still grudging about the pennies in 2021.
Aficionado
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Level 73
Oct 10, 2021
This has happened in India too. I have seen countless of them. Anyway, it's literally a waste to have coins of such low value. In India we have 1p, 2p and 5p though you can't really get anything using those. They are just waiting to be changed lol.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Oct 10, 2021
Well, here’s one reason to keep the penny. I still think that the penny is close to useless, though.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Oct 10, 2021
Though I guess it doesn’t explain why it was their in the first place.
toowise
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Level 78
Oct 15, 2021
Back in the 1990's I was working delivering supplies to the UN forces during the Balkan Conflict.

The inflation rate in Croatia was very high. There were still 1 kuna notes being issued by banks but people didn't want them because they were all but worthless.

In the banks you could see piles of 1 and 5 kuna notes just left in the corners.

On a particularly boring day whilst waiting for a ferry in Rijeka a friend and I worked out that it was cheaper to use 1 kuna banknotes than toilet paper.

Obviously the local shops prefered to be paid in dollars or deutschmarks than in local currency.

Thankfully Croatia is nowadays a much more prosperous nation.

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