nPostednon August 2, 2014
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nTherenare so many little ways that people help other people out, or makentheir lives a little easier…
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nSomeonenwas smart when they came up with those little Take a Penny, Leave anPenny trays that you see next to cash registers in grocery stores andnelsewhere.
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nWithout those trays, all of us would be doing what so manynpeople used to do, dump pennies into their pockets and purses andnlater, trying to lighten the load in pockets and purses, dumping thenpennies into jars at home. Since pennies are almost useless in mostntransactions (for example, no coin-op machine seems to take them,nanymore), pennies used to build up and build up in our homes.nFinally, in desperation, many of us would take our jars of pennies tonone of those big machines that sorts and counts change and pays us innmore sensible forms of cash. Or we would buy penny wraps and countnthe coins ourselves, and take them to the bank to cash them in.
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Butnwith the Take a Penny, Leave a Penny trays, whenever you get from onento four pennies, you can just dump them into the tray. And whenevernyou need a penny or two so you don’t have to break a twenty, you canntake what you need. No more pennies in a jar, right?
Butnwith the Take a Penny, Leave a Penny trays, whenever you get from onento four pennies, you can just dump them into the tray. And whenevernyou need a penny or two so you don’t have to break a twenty, you canntake what you need. No more pennies in a jar, right?n
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Sonbrilliant!
Sonbrilliant!n
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nInbet whoever thought of creating those trays made a handy bit ofndough. Sure, some people just take any old bowl and make a hand-madensign, but plenty of folks bought specially inscribed plastic traysnfor the purpose. And then of course there were all thosenmanufacturers who bought trays and slapped ads on them and passednthem out to the stores they deal with…
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nToncelebrate today…
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nScroungen around for pennies at your house and fill all the Take/Leave Pennyn trays you can.
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nOrn try to come up with a another cool idea to save everybody time andn money and aggravation.
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nOrn use Google to find out why some people want to eliminate the penny.n Are there any good arguments against getting rid of the penny?
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nAlsonon this date:
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Satchmo Daysn
Satchmo Daysn
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nAnniversarynof the final end of the final fighting of the Civil War
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nStatue-of-Libertynsculptor Frederick Bartholdi’s birthday
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nIlindennand Day of the Republic in Macedonia
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nPlannahead:
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nChecknout my Pinterest boards for:
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nAugustn holidays
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nAugustn birthdays
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nHistoricaln anniversaries in August
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:
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nSeptembern holidays
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nSeptembern birthdays
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nHistoricaln anniversaries in September
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