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

scudzilla

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.

Ricardo G

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

Kiwi_knock

I have never left a man coin behind

orourkeda

Ricardo G wrote: »

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

Anything goes

Jeboa Safari

a cent usually, depends, does feel stingy though

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.

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!

Plowman

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Nuggles

I'd pick up one cent.

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

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!!

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.

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!!

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

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:

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

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

Midnight_EG

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Smartly Dressed

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

Basically, 10+

brendansmith

Floor level

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?

Degag

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

Anyone else have one of these when younger?

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

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

in english?

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.

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

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....

Amalgam

Forgot to say, will pick up any coin. I passed a group of men installing a shop front on Dublin's Quays and I spotted a very bright and glitzy 2 euro coin. Attempted to pick it up and just got a scritchy nail for my troubles. The feckers had glued it to the sidewalk. Much laughter, funny thing is, as quick as I moved off, someone else tried to pick it up as I was walking on down the street..

Xavi6

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.

I worked in a Dublin Footlocker and we glued 2 euro to the floor right at the entrance. Used to brighten up those dull afternoons!

Degag

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

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....

Lol, was going to bring it up until i saw the small print!

StereoLove

T'would have to be 1 cent!

OutlawPete

Once seen a guy from Cavan drop a one euro coin, he bent down to pick it up and it hit him in the back of the neck.

cherryghost

To all you posh fooks picking up the larger coins - cheers, I'm five euro better off. Been picking up bits and bobs, mainly 1s, 2s and 5s since March wherever I can see them. Made just over a fiver so far

ElaElaElano

alwaysadub wrote: »

I'm not too bothered bout picking up coppers.

You don't have a choice when you go to coppers!

I'd pick up anything over 10c, two of them alone is a freddo- win.

fonecrusher1

cherryghost wrote: »

To all you posh fooks picking up the larger coins - cheers, I'm five euro better off. Been picking up bits and bobs, mainly 1s, 2s and 5s since March wherever I can see them. Made just over a fiver so far

Now thats cool.:pac:

So you scurry around, doubled over searching for 1cent coins on the ground.

cherryghost

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Now thats cool.:pac:

So you scurry around, doubled over searching for 1cent coins on the ground.

What can I say, I have a good eye. That, and my confidence is so low, I cant do anything but stare at the ground as I walk around town.

ElaElaElano

George Agdgdgwngo sure knows the benefits of picking up all the 1 and 2p's that people forget about.

fonecrusher1

cherryghost wrote: »

What can I say, I have a good eye. That, and my confidence is so low, I cant do anything but stare at the ground as I walk around town.

What about chewing gum stuck to the ground? Would you be tempted?

scudzilla

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

What about chewing gum stuck to the ground? Would you be tempted?

If it was an Airwaves then probably

FISMA

I pick them all up. Money is power, no matter what the denomination. Those that do not respect money will never have it. If you cannot respect what money symbolizes, than denomination hardly matters.

Even a penny is something that I will pick up.

Some people I know will only pick up a penny if it is heads-up. If it is tails-up then you're supposed to flip it over for the next person.

Again, I grab them all. When the universe is in a giving mode, take it.

Tar.Aldarion

gotta be 10, cos that's shiny and not useless

Royal Irish

I'd pick up anything but the brownies.

I picked up a fiver on the street about a fortnight ago and bought a lotto ticket.

Royal Irish

I'd pick up anything but the brownies.

I picked up a fiver on the street about a fortnight ago and bought a lotto ticket.

nitromaster

ElaElaElano wrote: »

You don't have a choice when you go to coppers!

I'd pick up anything over 10c, two of them alone is a freddo- win.

freddos are 25c nowadays

fonecrusher1

Royal Irish wrote: »

I picked up a fiver on the street about a fortnight ago and bought a lotto ticket.

Win anything?

fonecrusher1

Royal Irish wrote: »

I picked up a fiver on the street about a fortnight ago and bought a lotto ticket.

Win anything?

StereoLove

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.

Happened to me too! It was so embarrassing!