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What's the lowest Coin you will bend down to pick up??

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  • 14-07-2010 1:34am
    #1
    scudzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 11,919 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok, you're walking along and ya see a coin on the floor, what's the lowest value coin you'd bend down to pick up?

    Mine's gotta be 50cent, wouldn't bother with anything lower.

    This also goes for if you drop the coin, like if i dropped 10cent, i wouldn't bother me arse pickin it up.

    What is the LOWEST valued coin you will bend down to pick up? 275 votes

    1 cent
    0% 0 votes
    2 cent
    22% 62 votes
    5 cent
    0% 1 vote
    10 cent
    7% 20 votes
    20 cent
    18% 52 votes
    50 cent
    17% 48 votes
    1 Euro
    24% 67 votes
    2 Euro
    9% 25 votes


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    #2
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Things are so tight with me i'd pick up monopoloy money:D


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    #3
    Kiwi_knock
    Registered Users Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭Kiwi_knock


    I have never left a man coin behind


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    #4
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Ricardo G wrote: »
    Things are so tight with me i'd pick monopoloy money:D

    Anything goes


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    Jeboa Safari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jeboa Safari


    a cent usually, depends, does feel stingy though


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    cleremy jarkson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭cleremy jarkson


    I'd say 5 cent. I'd say about one in five times I see a 5 cent coin on the ground I will pick it up. It just seems valuable enough in my mind to be worth picking up.

    1 cent and 2 cent....I could only imagine picking these up if I was, say, standing at an empty bus stop waiting for a bus....or cleaning out my room and finding them under my bed, or behind a drawer.

    For 10 cent coins, I'd say I pick them up about four times out of five. It would depend on where I was standing; if I was at a busy bus stop or standing in a queue in a shop, I wouldn't bother but if I walked past one on the street I definitely would.

    For 20 cent coins, I'd pick them up 95% of the time (I'd guess) and for 50 cents, 1 euro's or 2 euro's I ALWAYS pick them up.

    EDIT: I also pick up ANY coin if I've just dropped it...unless I'm in a busy or dark nightclub, in which case I will only bend down and pick up 20 cent coins and upwards.


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    #7
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,959 ✭✭✭Degag


    10c.

    The owner of my local once picked 2c out of a urinal there, which i thought was pretty stingy! Maybe that's why he owns the pub!


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    Plowman
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    Nuggles
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Nuggles


    I'd pick up one cent.

    Was brought up to appreciate any money that comes my way.


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    shinikins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭shinikins


    Any coin on the ground lol!! And there tends to be a lot of coppers on the ground nowadays so you'll find a euro's worth in no time! I have a jar at home that all the small coins go into, and every once in a while i lodge it to the bank..... ever little helps!! :D


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    alwaysadub
    Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Not that i see too much money lying about :( but i'd definitely pick up 50c and above-i found 50c the other day actually. If there was no one around though, and it was right in front of me, i might pick up a 20c or 10c. I'm not too bothered bout picking up coppers.


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    Roomic Cube
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Roomic Cube


    shinikins wrote: »
    Any coin on the ground lol!! And there tends to be a lot of coppers on the ground nowadays so you'll find a euro's worth in no time! I have a jar at home that all the small coins go into, and every once in a while i lodge it to the bank..... ever little helps!! :D

    i have one of those jars that counts up the money as you put it in, have near 70 euro in it now

    id pick up 50 cent, but i'd also pick up a cent for luck


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    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    cleremy jarkson wrote: »
    I'd say 5 cent. I'd say about one in five times I see a 5 cent coin on the ground I will pick it up. It just seems valuable enough in my mind to be worth picking up.

    1 cent and 2 cent....I could only imagine picking these up if I was, say, standing at an empty bus stop waiting for a bus....or cleaning out my room and finding them under my bed, or behind a drawer.

    For 10 cent coins, I'd say I pick them up about four times out of five. It would depend on where I was standing; if I was at a busy bus stop or standing in a queue in a shop, I wouldn't bother but if I walked past one on the street I definitely would.

    For 20 cent coins, I'd pick them up 95% of the time (I'd guess) and for 50 cents, 1 euro's or 2 euro's I ALWAYS pick them up.

    EDIT: I also pick up ANY coin if I've just dropped it...unless I'm in a busy or dark nightclub, in which case I will only bend down and pick up 20 cent coins and upwards.

    Jaysus you put a lot of thought into that! :pac:


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    Peppapig
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Peppapig


    Apparently from an economics point of view, the opportunity cost (for a cashier) of picking up a penny is higher than actually notpicking it up and serving a customer:confused:


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    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    just about to go through the exit into work (yes walk in through the exit) and i allowed the people to come out first before i entered..... fecking fat woman found a fiver on the way right in front of me !!!

    But anyways... myself would have to be 10c


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    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    This poll should be public so we can see who the tight cunts and the scroungers of AH are! :pac:


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    #17
    magma69
    Registered Users Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭magma69


    I went to pick up a coin once. Turned out it was glued to the ground and a bunch kids laughed and hurled abuse at me for falling for their skullduggery as I walked away in shame.

    Anytime I see a coin I am tempted to go for it but the images of the pointing and laughing return and I suddenly scream and run home crying. The therapy helps a little though.


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    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,213 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    I'll pick up any coins off the ground. A couple of years ago, I kept all of the money I found on the street/by the checkouts in Tesco/etc in a different jar to the shrapnel I didn't take out again. After a year it came to about 13 euro.


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Never bother tbh

    Wrote my name in the tar with pennies one time and this auld scab called Bride Ned went after them one hot day with a plastic fork. That was the worse I've seen


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    magma69
    Registered Users Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭magma69


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    This poll should be public so we can see who the tight cunts and the scroungers of AH are! :pac:

    Yes, this thread will overlap with this quite a lot methinks. :D


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    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    magma69 wrote: »
    I went to pick up a coin once. Turned out it was glued to the ground and a bunch kids laughed and hurled abuse at me for falling for their skullduggery as I walked away in shame.

    Anytime I see a coin I am tempted to go for it but the images of the pointing and laughing return and I suddenly scream and run home crying. The therapy helps a little though.

    haha... the good oul taxi lads taking the piss on parnell street glued a few 20c coins and 10c coins to the ground and laughing their bollox's off at the poor suckers picking them up


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    #22
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Jaysus, look at all you stingy fúckers! Id only exert meself for 50cent. Nothing less. And Im not exactly loaded.
    I know this cause the only coins I have jar fulls of are 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c and 20c. From 50c up, I spend as I go.


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    #23
    Smartly Dressed
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Smartly Dressed


    If it's brown, leave it down. If it's gold, grab hold.

    Basically, 10+


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    #24
    brendansmith
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭brendansmith


    Floor level


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    #25
    Jigga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Jigga


    Roomic Cube wrote: »
    i have one of those jars that counts up the money as you put it in, have near 70 euro in it now
    I have never heard of one of these, where are they sold?


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    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,959 ✭✭✭Degag


    Lol, remended me of this little fella....

    Anyone else have one of these when younger?


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    Limerick_Lass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Limerick_Lass


    When I was bored at work before, I used to glue a coin on the footpath outside the window...... oh the good times :D


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    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Peppapig wrote: »
    Apparently from an economics point of view, the opportunity cost (for a cashier) of picking up a penny is higher than actually notpicking it up and serving a customer:confused:

    in english?


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    Fromvert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭Fromvert


    One euro if I'm walking along and it's close enough to me. 50c if it's my own and I drop it but if it rolls anymore then a foot or two away forget it the coin is no longer mine.


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    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Roomic Cube wrote: »
    i have one of those jars that counts up the money as you put it in, have near 70 euro in it now
    Jigga wrote: »
    I have never heard of one of these, where are they sold?

    Just Googled.. Priced lower than I was expecting.

    http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/6577986/Electronic-Money-Counting-Jar/Product.html

    (Play, link above, have it for less than ten euro!)

    http://gstore.ie/products/Gadgets/Euro_Counting_Money_Jar.html

    http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/6012287/art/cooldevice/coin-counting-jar-euro.html

    http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060417/coin-counting-money-jar/

    http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Coin-Counting-Money-Jar/dp/B000ODRMLS


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    #31
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    I save all my near useless copper shrapnel for a few weeks. Then head into tescos when its quiet and pump all those smelly tiny coins back into the self service checkouts where they came from in the first place.:)

    The 1cent coin is the most retarded idea ever. I have about 50 of them lying in my car floor. Must be almost a euros worth just sitting there.





    /waits for someone to spot the mathematical error....


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